Democracy Forum -- Hate, Fear, and Politics: How Hate and Fear Endanger Democracy

Friday, October 18, 2019
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

LWV-Downeast hosts a monthly radio program on democracy in cooperation with WERU FM. This month, we'll talk about how hate and fear in politics destroy democracy. How panic and fear make space for abandoning the rule of law and the regular order. How when we demonize the opposition, it makes room for extraordinary measures to stop them.  We'll take listener calls during the second half of the show.

Special Guests: Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University; and Steve Wessler, Maine human rights educator, trainer, and advocate specializing in conflict resolution

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, streaming at weru.org