“New Cards” – Community Engagement Podcast (36)

Community Engagement Podcast by Glen Pearson

Aug 25, 2013Government & Organizations

It is highly possible for citizens to discuss their way into solutions. But that’s not how the political process works. There you have an agenda and people must dialogue along those lines or they are excluded. But...

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