Tune in at 9:00 am Memorial Day to 90.3 and 106.7 FM

Tune in at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, Memorial Day on 90.3 and 106.7 FM in the Twin Cities area to hear a one-hour broadcast of our recent Forum on Values in Governing.   Held on Wednesday, May 18, the forum featured panelists Dane Smith of Growth & Justice, Wesley Walker of the Northway Community Trust, Alison Norman of the Minnesota State College Student Association, Steve Rogness of TakeAction Minnesota, and Tom Vellenga of Heartland Democracy.  Phyllis Stenerson, who leads and writes for ProgressiveValues.Org and is a Fellow of Heartland Democracy, moderated the Forum, which took place at the First Universalist Church in South Minnesota.  Radio KFAI's Truth to Tell team was there to tape the forum.  Led by Truth to Tell's host, Andy Driscoll, KFAI is providing an edited broadcast of the original two-hour forum to provide a one-hour broadcast.

With the help of the audience's tough questions and insightful comments, our panel offered diverse perspectives on the values we all bring to the challenge of self-governance, using our collaboration's practical and progressive Framework for Governing as a touchstone for conversation.  We joined with Growth & Justice, Ready 4 K, a collaboration led by 1,000 Friends of Minnesota, the Minnesota Environmental Partnership, and TakeAction Minnesota to create the Framework.  Our collaborators contributed policy proposals for Minnesota across a wide range of issues.  Heartland Democracy worked with its collaborators to fashion a Values Framework that identified the values and themes common to all initiatives.  In this way, we are making the progressive approach to governing more coherent.  The Framework is a tool with which progressives can make decisions as well as communicate them.  We presented the Framework to the Governor, his aides, and agency commissioners.  Soon we will provide it to legislators, other groups, the media, and the public.