That Crazy Moment When A Progressive And A Tea Partier Are In Complete Agreement
From Upworthy… (A 2-minute video everyone in our field should watch and then share widely!)
Mark Meckler (co-founder, Tea Party Patriots) and Joan Blades (co-founder, MoveOn.org) come from opposite ends of the political spectrum and should be mortal enemies if the current level of political discourse in Washington D.C. is anything to go by. Instead, they found a way to calmly share their beliefs and discovered that while “right” and “left” obviously don’t agree on everything, they share a lot more common ground than anyone thought.
Also see the full 23-minute video from Eric Liu’s Citizen University at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zejJAVb8pg.
Sandy Heierbacher co-founded the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) with Andy Fluke in 2002, with the 60 volunteers and 50 organizations who worked together to plan NCDD’s first national conference. She served as NCDD's Executive Director between 2002 and 2018. Click here for a list of articles and resources authored by Sandy.
