Resources
Helpful Resources and Links
We the People Warwick is on the lookout for and curates helpful materials and resources for our members and readers. Do you have something to suggest that is in keeping with WTPW’s mission? Please reach out! We welcome input.
Websites
All Sides - AllSides™ strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, diverse perspectives, and real conversation. AllSides exposes people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other. Their balanced news coverage, media bias ratings, civil dialogue opportunities, and technology platform are available for everyone and can be integrated by schools, nonprofits, media companies, and more.
Braver Angels - Through workshops, debates, campus engagement, and more, Braver Angels helps Americans understand each other beyond stereotypes, form community alliances, and reduce the vitriol that poisons our civic culture.
Bridge Alliance - The Bridge Alliance is a coalition of ~100 organizations working together to promote healthy self-governance in our democratic republic. Bridge Alliance member organizations span the ideological spectrum, but are unified to work efficiently, outside arbitrarily defined political lines. You can see the results of their work by visiting their websites / social media pages (accessible through their All Members page).
Choose Love Movement - The Choose Love Movement offers free programming for school, work, and home life, which teaches how to apply nurturing and healing love to any circumstance, with the goal of creating safer and more welcoming, supportive, and compassionate homes, schools, and communities.
Essential Partners - Collaborates with civic groups, schools, faith communities, colleges, and organizations to build a culture of connection, a deeper sense of belonging, as well as mutual understanding and trust across differences of values, beliefs, and identities.
Everyday Democracy - A national organization that helps local communities find ways for all kinds of people to think, talk and work together to solve problems.
Living Room Conversations - Living Room Conversations works to heal society by connecting people across divides - politics, age, gender, race, nationality, and more – through guided conversations proven to build understanding and transform communities.
RedBlueDictionary.org - Approx. 30 volunteers from academia and mediation collaborate to reveal how people across the spectrum define and use the same terms in different ways.
Resetting the Table - PURPLE tells the story of Americans with opposing viewpoints confronting their disagreements head-on and discovering the concerns and experiences that lie behind each other’s positions. PURPLE - video.
Talks/Presentations
Real people. Real narratives. Real inclusion. It's all that we share:
All That We Share - The Danish Version • Jan 27, 2017 • We live in a time where we quickly put people in boxes. Maybe we have more in common than what we think? Introducing All That We Share. The English version.
All That We Are - Apr 5, 2018 • Penn State Students, Faculty, and Staff from many campuses got together to share their experiences and explore the ways we are connected beyond our differences. All That We Are.
All That We Are - Peelschools - All that we share (Danish TV ad inspired)
A Brief But Spectacular take on bridging communities with art - Shawn Dunwoody is a local artist and activist born and raised in Rochester, New York. He shares his approach of igniting conversations through art to create changes in the community.
The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Chimamanda’s Ted Talk explores the negative influences that a “single story” can have and identifies the root of these stories.
How Curiosity Will Save Us by Mónica Guzmán - With simple, powerful questions she herself has used in countless treks across the divide, Mónica shows how having critical conversations with people—instead of about them—changes everything.
Own Your Behaviors, Master Your Communication, Determine Your Success | Louise Evans | TEDxGenova - “It is of paramount importance that we create healthy environments in the spaces that most affect our lives by giving of our best and receiving the like in return. The 5 Chairs is a powerful and systematic method which helps us master our own behaviors and manage the behaviors of others. To be a good leader is to contribute to the success and happiness of everyone, at work and at home, on a conscious level. The 5 Chairs offer 5 Choices. Which will you choose?”
Books
Healing Resistance - Kazu Haga on Nonviolence in Action and Life (Jan 12, 2022) - Kazu writes about his life and training in the Nonviolent Legacy of Dr. King.
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán. Monica draws from conversations she's had, organized, or witnessed everywhere from the echo chambers on social media to the wheat fields in Oregon to raw, unfiltered fights with her family on election night, Mónica shows how you can put your natural sense of wonder to work for you immediately, finding the answers you need by talking with people—rather than about them—and asking the questions you want across the divides you want, curiously.
Films
Anxious Nation - This award-winning feature-length documentary, takes a deep look into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America, especially its impact on young people (ages 10-26) and families.
The Social Dilemma - Tech experts from Silicon Valley sound the alarm on the dangerous impact of social networking, which Big Tech use in an attempt to manipulate and influence.
Materials
Differences between Dialogue and Debate:
A Guide to Conversations Across the Partisan Divide - Essential Partners