Democracy Forum — Constitutional Crisis: What does civic courage look like?

"At its core, civic courage is the ability and willingness of citizens to speak up, act, and stand by core democratic and community values even when doing so involves personal risk, discomfort, or unpopularity—especially in public life and shared civic spaces." –- Samuel J. Abrams, American Enterprise Institute, Dec.2025

We'll talk about how civic courage and neighborliness create solidarity under stress. How are communities under pressure holding it together? -- in Minneapolis, in Maine, and in other communities around the country. What do we have in common with pro-democracy resistance movements around the world? 

Special guests:

  • Oliver Kaplan, Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law

  • Mufalo Chitam, Executive Director, Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition

  • Amy DeBeck, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Castine

  • Julia Edwards, SoPo Helps Mutual Aid Network

Learn more about the Democracy Forum here.

Tune into the broadcast at 4:00 p.m., Friday, February 20, on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, streaming at weru.org. If you miss the broadcast, check back here for the audio archive. Subscribe to our podcast: iTunes | Spotify | Android.

When
Feb 20th, 2026 from  4:00 PM to  5:00 PM
Location
WERU 89.9 FM
Blue Hill ME
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