HR!Day559 - Democracy On The Ground - Faiths United to Save Democracy
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Faiths United to Save Democracy (FUSD) is a ten-state nonpartisan, multi-racial, interfaith, and multi-generation voter justice campaign with a toolkit, to make voting easier for vulnerable populations. They represent a unique and powerful way to reach voters across party lines and across other divides bring new levels of sanity Into the political process.
They also demonstrate the importance of the work being done on the ground to turn out the vote, which in the end, even with all of the obstructions being advanced in various states by Republican Governors and Legislatures, is the only way We the People can, most especially in the upcoming midterms, defend Democracy against the dangerous assault it is under.
Featured Guests
- Jim Wallis, Faiths United to Save Democracy Core Team Member. Jim is a globally respected writer, teacher, preacher, and justice advocate who believes the gospel of Jesus must be transformed from its cultural and political captivities. He is a New York Times bestselling author, widely recognized public theologian, renowned speaker, and regular international commentator on ethics and public life. He is the author of 12 books, including American’s Original Sin, God’s Politics, The Great Awakening, and The Call to Conversion. His podcast, The Soul of the Nation with Jim Wallis features conversations with grassroots organizers and political leaders. He served on President Barack Obama's White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and has taught faith and public life courses at Harvard and Georgetown University. “Coach Jim” also served for 22 seasons as a Little League coach for his two baseball playing sons. Rev. Jim Wallis serves as the inaugural chair and founding director of the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, He is an ordained Baptist minister, author.
- Richard Cizik, President of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, a faith-based organization committed to an agenda that fosters values consistent with an open and free society.
- He served for ten years as Vice President for Governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, the top staff position of the organization, a post he left in 2008 after enduring years of political opposition from the Religious Right. An interview with NPR's "Fresh Air" in which he expressed support for civil unions, climate change, and political collaboration with the newly-elected Obama Administration, led to a national uproar within the movement and over one-hundred top evangelical leaders defecting to a "New Evangelical" agenda. As a result, Cizik founded the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good (http://www.newevangelicalpartnership.org) and has been a leader in bringing evangelicals, scholars, and policy-makers together in the search for common ground on a host of national and international challenges, including climate change, civil liberties, economic justice, and national security. He travels frequently to speak on these topics, here and abroad, and is considered one of America's "most dynamic public speakers," according to Science magazine.
- Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, (Expected, but not available today)
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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