First Tuesday Alliance is one part of reviving the spirit of democracy by engaging in both theoretical and practical civic education.We meet once a month to talk, learn, and act. We engage with each other, our local communities, and the wider world.
We meet once a month to talk, learn, and act. We engage with each other, our local communities, and the wider world.
Our lives are connected. Our choices affect others; theirs affect us. Every society needs a process to manage differences. That process—whatever shape it takes—is politics.
Democracy is distinctive because it gives everyone a voice. Democratic politics means making decisions together. That does not mean we’ll always agree; it does, though, demand that we respect its outcomes.
Democracy does more than resolve differences. Its practice transforms us. Democracy requires humility; democracy requires that we accept that others might be right; and democracy requires that we listen.
The habits that sustain democracy don’t just make society work better; they make us better.