UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Nov. 20, 1963)
Editor’s Note: The adoption of this declaration over a half century ago by the United Nations General Assembly led to enactment of the binding International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which took effect in 1969. All signatories to the agreement pledge both to do away with racial discrimination and build […]
Declaration of Remediation
When in the Course of American events, it becomes necessary for one people to repudiate the partisan lines which have divided them, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of […]
Declaration of the Outraged (Declaracion de los Indignados e Indignadas)
Editor’s Note: Galvanized by social media-savvy young people fed up with the pervasive culture of political corruption in Honduras, tens of thousands of protesters have converged at the presidential palace in the capital of Tegucigalpa and are demanding an investigation into suspected massive fraud of social security funds. The largest protests take place over weekends, but […]
Partnering Rocks
Before I spend the rest of the day (after a near-sleepless night catching up on work) celebrating my birthday with family (my 9-year-old wants to spend the day with me doing “whatever Daddy wants to do” — as long as it includes seeing the movie “Inside Out” followed by bowling — I thought I’d jot down […]
On New Declarations, Blindspots and Our Better Angels
On July 4, Congressman Alan Grayson from Florida’s 9th district issued “a new declaration” that built on FDR’s January 6, 1941 declaration of four freedoms that people the world over should enjoy — freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear (which inspired Stewart Harris, Democracy Cafe advisory board member […]
Declaration of Child and Elder Independence
Written and declared by me, Ramona Layli Herrera, on this 8th day of July, 2015. As an adult, a former child, and a future elder, I hereby make this Declaration: Equality has nothing to do with age. Freedom is for everyone. All people, from their first moment of life to their last, have the right […]
How do I write a personal declaration for MyDeclaration?
It looks like we’re getting a lot of hits on our site, but that so far most visitors are passing on writing their own personal declaration for the MyDeclaration part of our project. Our hunch, though, is that most visitors to our site want to write one, but that sometimes it can be a little intimidating […]
Press Release Announcing Launch of Declaration Project
Democracy Café Launches The Declaration Project Inspired by The Spirit of 1776, this new interactive web experience lets people browse the largest online collection of Declarations and write one of their own. Philadelphia, PA. — July 2, 2015 — Today, the day that John Adams’ predicted in 1776 that we’d celebrate our nation’s independence, the […]
What if we’d lost the Revolutionary War way back when? What if we’re losing it now?
In what he bills as a ‘thought experiment,’ senior editor for the Atlantic Monthly Uri Friedman asks us to consider what the U.S. in particular and the world in general would be like today if we’d lost the American Revolution. I launch all Democracy Cafe dialogue projects out of a spirit of optimism and an […]
I get by with a lot of help from my friends, Part II
Now let me tell you about some of the other wonderful and dedicated souls who are part of the Democracy Cafe team, and are committed to fulfilling our vision of making ours a world in which everyone matters and counts in my next blog. I met Charlynn Duecy, fellow Virginian and senior public relations strategist at […]
