The following announcement is from Kimberlee Spillers.

The first in a series of six community conversations, a small group met last week to view the movie and discuss “Tickling Giants,” a documentary of the Arab Spring Uprising.

Led by Frank and Kimberlee Spillers, these topics will be held Mondays, Atlantic Public Library, 507 Poplar, Atlantic, Iowa, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. 

Watch this 12-minute video about some of the public issues that people in Alabama are going to be tackling through a statewide deliberative forums series called What's Next Alabama? The series is a new initiative by the David Mathews Center for Civic Life, based in Montevallo, Alabama.

Issue discussion materials about the opioid crisis are now in the works. You can sign up to be notified as soon as they are available by clicking here: https://goo.gl/forms/luof5W0RmMzDU1HY2

In the following article, Thea Nietfeld, of Newton, Kansas, describes how a small group of friends tried out deliberation, and how they are planning to use it next.

In January, Kansas Peoples’ Agenda called progressives to the state capitol to put the peoples’ needs into Kansas’ policies and budget. Four women from Newton met there and began having lunch regularly to talk about local and national politics.