Defending Democracy with Courage and Joy

Defending Democracy with Courage and Joy *** How do ordinary people protect democracy among faltering institutions and political intimidation? Pamela Campos-Palma draws on experience as a political strategist and USAF intelligence analyst to examine how communities prepared to prevent violence, counter intimidation, and protect participation when she helped lead the 2020 Election Defenders coalition, and will explore why democracy’s most important guardrails are ultimately people—how trust, preparation, moral courage, celebration, and disciplined joy can interrupt fear and create the conditions for collective action and civic victory. She offers an invitation to reconsider what each of us can do to make American democracy more resilient, humane, and worth defending. (First Sundays start with 1/2 hour of music, offer childcare, and may run until noon.) Programs are presented in four broad areas relevant to Humanism: • Human Well-Being • Science and Reason • Secularism • Humanities, Culture, and Morality Sunday HGP programs: for the latest info, follow the link below to the main HGP website home page, find the "Next Speaker" announcement on the left; for past programs and future speakers and activities, click on the "Calendar" button, upper left of that page: http://www.portlandhumanists.org/