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Piano Paesaggistico Regionale del Friuli Venezia Giulia [Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Landscape Planning]
Jan 30 '17
Il Piano Paesaggistico è uno strumento di pianificazione finalizzato alla salvaguardia e gestione del territorio nella sua globalità. Il suo ruolo è quello di integrare la tutela e la valorizzazione del paesaggio all’interno dei processi di trasformazione del territorio, con una funzione strategica, definendo delle linee guida per il suo...
WUNC
There have been a number of rallies, protests, and marches lately, which has gotten me thinking about Charles’ Tilly’s delightful acronym WUNC: worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment. As Tilly writes:
The term WUNC sounds odd, but it represents something quite familiar. WUNC displays can take the form of statements, slogans, or labels that imply worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment.
The combination of tactics used and WUNC displays, Tilly argues, is what gives a campaign its distinctiveness.
Consider the Pussyhats of the women’s march: the sea of pink emphasized the march’s impressive numbers and indicated participant’s unity. Importantly, this type of display operates on both an external and internal level. That is, observers note participant’s numbers and unity; while participants get energized by the event’s numbers and unity.
This internal effect is particularly important because rallies often serve primarily as a mechanism to energy loyal participants, rather than as tactic to achieve a direct outcome.
When I was headed to yesterday’s protest against President Trump’s anti-immigrant legislation, I was thinking about this piece in particular. Would there be some visible element that would make a person’s participation in the rally clear? Probably not with such short notice.
There was a group on my train with their protest signs out. Another passenger stopped and started asking them questions; where was the rally today? What time did it start? What exactly did the targeted executive orders do?
On my way home following the rally, I got a lot of reactions to my own protest sign. Had I been protesting at the airport? How was the crowd at Copley? One woman just honked enthusiastically as I walked by.
There are so many things going on right now; so many ways that the pluralism of our society is under attack, it seems nearly impossible to come up with a single symbol that could encompass all we stand for and all we believe.
But maybe we don’t have to. A WUNC display doesn’t need to be as tidy as matching hats or colorful pins. Perhaps a miscellaneous smattering of signage is enough. Perhaps these varied messages – some funny, some sad, some angry, some simple, each subject to the peculiarities of its maker – perhaps each of the signs are indeed united under a single banner: resist.
Occupy Flagstaff House (#occupyflagstaffhouse)
Jan 30 '17
Occupy Flagstaff House was a protest against government corruption and failure to provide basic social services. Led by a small group of middle-class professionals, the protest began as an online hashtag #occupyflagstaffhouse but soon migrated to the streets where people marched on Flagstaff House, the office and residence of then...
The councils of children and adolescents in Brazil
Jan 30 '17
Definition The councils are collegiate bodies created by law and are composed of representatives of the State and civil society with the purpose of producing deliberations on the various areas of public policy. The Child and Adolescent Rights Councils were provided for by the Child and Adolescent Statute (Federal Law...
The National Policy of Social Participation
Jan 30 '17
1st version 05/16 by Priscila Zanandrez Martins, UFMG, Brazil. Problems and Purpose The National System of Social Participation is organized, so, in a set of institutional measures and strengthening of the tools and existing participation mechanisms and their interface with the new forms and languages, especially virtual, in a flexible...
registration open for Frontiers of Democracy
Tickets are now available for Frontiers of Democracy, June 22-24. Frontiers is an annual conference hosted by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, with partners. This year’s theme is defending the frontiers of democracy against undemocratic, xenophobic, and illiberal trends around the world. Some of the time will be spent working with this framework, and others that take different approaches:
Purchase now to hold your place. Regular tickets cost $240, and there are discounts for current students and Tisch College’s Community partners. Alumni of the Summer Institute of Civic Studies attend free.
As always, the format of Frontiers is highly interactive; most of the concurrent sessions are “learning exchanges” rather than presentations or panels. We welcome proposals for learning exchanges for 2017. Please use this form to submit ideas.
Frontiers is public. It follows immediately after the Summer Institute of Civic Studies, a selective 2-week seminar for scholars, practitioners, and advanced graduate students that is capped at 20 participants. Applications for the Institute are being accepted now. Email me (peterlevine@tufts.edu) your resume, a graduate transcript if applicable, and a cover letter explaining your interest.
The 1% Support Scheme: Participatory Budgeting in Ichikawa City (Japan)
Jan 30 '17
The ordinance for the 1% Support Scheme was approved in Ichikawa in 2004 and was put into practice at the beginning of the new financial year in 2005. The Scheme represents an interesting form of Participatory Budgeting (PB) for two reasons: the budget derives from citizens’ taxes and the organizations...
Free NIFI Community-Police Relations Discussion Guides
We want to encourage our network to learn more about the new Safety & Justice discussion guide from the National Issues Forums Institute. As NIFI and the Kettering Foundation – both core NCDD member orgs – prepare for their yearly A Public Voice event in DC, they are collecting reports from deliberative forums on community-police relations and criminal justice reform to show policymakers that deliberation is more than “bumper sticker talk” and media representations.
NIFI is inviting all those hosting discussions on this critical issue to share their data and learnings with them so that they can be included in the conversation in DC, even if those conversations don’t use NIFI materials. You can learn more about how to participate and get free discussion guides in the NIFI blog post below or find the original here.
Special Spring ’17 Offer: Free Safety & Justice Materials to First 100 Moderators
Recently, the relationship between police and the communities they serve has become the focus of intense scrutiny, conversation, and even protest. The issue is difficult to talk about – and yet, we must, or this
issue could tear our communities apart.
A problem like this requires talk, but not just any talk. We need deliberative forums where community members of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, and professions can get beyond the talking points and bumper stickers. Forums where they can share not just what they think, but why. Places where we can consider tensions and tradeoffs and see where we may have common ground.
But in order for there to be forums, there have to be conveners and moderators.
And that’s why your community needs YOU. To get people started, NIFI is offering 20 FREE hard copies of the Safety and Justice issue guide + copy of the starter video to the first 100 moderators who can convene a forum between January 1, 2017 and March 15, 2017.
Sign up for your free materials HERE.
NIFI is offering these materials in partnership with the Kettering Foundation. Kettering will analyze participant questionnaires and other forum information for a report to policymakers at the A Public Voice event on May 9, and in a full report on the entire forums series at the end of the year.
To qualify for this special offer, you must:
- Host a forum on Safety and Justice between January 1, 2017 and March 15, 2017.
- Ensure that each participant and moderator complete a post-forum questionnaire.
- Send all questionnaires back within a week of hosting the forum (all questionnaires must be sent by March 15, 2017).
- Collect participant contact information for additional A Public Voice and NIFI opportunities.
I am asking each of you to consider offering a forum to a group with whom you have contact and who you feel is interested in this issue – your church, a book club, a class you are teaching, a civic organization to which you belong, etc. You can make a significant contribution to spreading awareness of public deliberation and to helping to find a solution to this significant public issue.
– NIFI President Emeritus Bill Muse
You can find the original version of this NIFI blog post at www.nifi.org/en/2017-safety-justice-offer.
Participatory Budgeting in Vicenza
Jan 30 '17
With the deliberation of the municipal council 31st of July 2015, the Council of Vicenza (IT) introduced its first process of participatory budgeting which started on 21st of April 2016, and ended on 31st of December 2016. The participatory budgeting in Vicenza was sponsored directly by the council, through the...