Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power
إريك ليو: لمَ يجب على الناس العاديين أن يستوعبوا مفهوم السلطة
Eric Liu is founder of Citizen University, which teaches the art of powerful citizenship, and the executive director of the Aspen Institute Citizenship & American Identity Program. Full bio
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you who have just fallen asleep
even a narcoleptic effect
word signifies something
exceedingly important,
من أجل الحقوق المدنية.
جعل التربية المدنية مثيرة مجددا
ببساطة هي فن
مشاركا في إيجاد الحلول
that make the world go round,
وراء الأهداف
ليس ضروريا
أو خيرة بالفطرة
here in America in particular,
خصوصا هنا في الولايات المتحدة،
are profoundly illiterate
what part of it is not,
why that's compounded.
becomes a subsidy,
التي استطاع "حزب الشاي" مثلا،
want to see these realities.
له علاقة بالسياسة.
أو سوء استخدام السلطة
أن القوة توجد
that bad things just happen,
أن الأشياء السلبية تحدث هكذا،
creeping fatalism in public life,
to a band of professionals,
أن نكون مثل الهواة
describing a moment ago,
أتحدث عنهما قبل قليل،
على أساس أنها تعليم للقوة.
point that I want to make today,
التي أريد أن أناقشها اليوم،
the common life of your city.
زيادة أوقات عملها أو تقليلها،
the electric company Xcel,
شركة إكسل الكهربائية،
Boulder who have been pushing this
في بولدر المدافعين عن هذا القرار
بما في الكلمة من معنى
من جمعيات النساء البيض،
أو قد لا تعجبكم،
في هذا الأمر،
ألف حساب وتعترفوا
وما هي الخطوات،
elemental questions of power?
وكذلك الفرصة التي توجد أمامنا.
ربطت الحكومة الوطنية
التي انتشرت بها استراتيجيات
in participatory budgeting,
spread from Porto Alegre, Brazil
to the wards of Chicago.
من روما إلى لوس أنجلوس
غير المشروع للمسؤولين،
من المدن العالمية الكبرى
المتعلقة بتخفيض الكربون
اجعلوه خلال سنة من الآن،
that you were championing,
that you were able to stir.
فيما يتعلق بالسلطة.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Eric Liu - Civics educatorEric Liu is founder of Citizen University, which teaches the art of powerful citizenship, and the executive director of the Aspen Institute Citizenship & American Identity Program.
Why you should listen
Eric Liu is an author, educator and civic entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Citizen University, which promotes and teaches the art of great citizenship through a portfolio of national programs, and the executive director of the Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program.
Liu's books include the national bestsellers The Gardens of Democracy, and The True Patriot, co-authored with Nick Hanauer. His most recent book is A Chinaman's Chance, published in July, 2014. His first book, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, was a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary "Matters of Race." His other books include Guiding Lights: How to Mentor – and Find Life's Purpose, the Official Book of National Mentoring Month; and Imagination First, co-authored with Scott Noppe-Brandon of the Lincoln Center Institute, which explores ways to unlock imagination in education, politics, business and the arts.
Liu served as a White House speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and later as the President's deputy domestic policy adviser. After the White House, he was an executive at the digital media company RealNetworks. In 2002 he was named one of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow, and in 2010 he was awarded the Bill Grace Leadership Legacy Award by the Center for Ethical Leadership.
Liu lives in Seattle, where he teaches civic leadership at the University of Washington and hosts Citizen University TV, a television program about civic power. In addition to speaking regularly at venues across the country, he also serves on numerous nonprofit and civic boards. He is the co-founder of the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility. A board member of the Corporation for National and Community Service, he is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.
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