Simple and true.
Local politics — schools, zoning, council elections — hit us where we live. So why don’t more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we truly care.
(via Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy | Video on TED.com)
Source: ted.com
The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will resign and pave the way for the election of a new, Labour leader in September in a dramatic, 11th hour bid to clinch a power sharing deal with the Liberal Democrats.
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