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Purpose of activity:
To illustrate how Everyday Democracys dialogue process helps various parts of the
community work together.
Materials needed:
Chart paper
Markers
Tape
Activity:
1. Ask the group: When there is an important public issue, how does change happen? You
may want to give an example using some current issue, such as immigration, gun violence,
gang activity, etc. Give participants a chance to answer this question, but then move fairly
quickly to the diagram dont get bogged down in a long discussion.
2. Tell the group: One way that change happens is that
leaders (elected officials, organization heads, school
administrators, law enforcement leaders, etc.) get together
and decide that something needs to be done about the
problem.
Draw a series of circles at the top of the chart paper:
No buy in
Ordinary citizens have no say in what happens. This can lead to resistance
and/or solutions that may not be practical or effective
Examples:
Independence
More equitable and inclusive and can give people who dont usually have
a say a voice
Sometimes more creative solutions
8. Tell the group: Community-wide dialogue turns this us vs. them adversarial relationship
into a more collaborative relationship.
Rotate chart paper 90 degrees (so that its on its side) and tape into place:
9.
Have the group discuss the question: What are advantages of this scenario?
Examples:
Provides a way to link people who usually dont have a say or may have been excluded
with people who are in positions of formal leadership and power
10. Tell the group: Community-wide dialogue takes the more common top down or bottom
up way that change usually happens and turns it on its side, making it easier for people to
talk and work together collaboratively.
11. Discuss the following questions as a group (optional):
How does the relationship between those with power and those with less power reinforce
structural/institutional racism?