Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power
چرا مردم عادی نیازمند درک مفهوم قدرت هستند؟
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
خوابشان گرفت میخواهم
even a narcoleptic effect
word signifies something
این کلمه حاکی از چیزی
exceedingly important,
که در زمان انقلاب امریکا بود،
به آموزش قدرت بپردازیم.
that make the world go round,
here in America in particular,
are profoundly illiterate
what part of it is not,
چه بخشی پنهان هست،
why that's compounded.
و قدرت آنها دائما اضافه میشود
becomes a subsidy,
به امری متداول تبدیل شده است .
مهمانی چای بوستون
تیتر یک مجله را که میگوید:
رفتار اجتماعی میکنند.
want to see these realities.
نمیخواهند آن را ببینند.
بیسوادیهای مدنی
that bad things just happen,
همیشه از آسمان بلا نازل میشود،
creeping fatalism in public life,
ریشهدار در زندگی عمومی،
to a band of professionals,
describing a moment ago,
که لحظهای پیش گفتم
point that I want to make today,
برای سومین نکته امروزم
the common life of your city.
باید افزود یا کم کرد،
این اشکال متفاوت قدرت فکر کنید.
the electric company Xcel,
Boulder who have been pushing this
از گروههای خواهران و برادران
ولی تحسین میکنید
به حساب میآورید
elemental questions of power?
در هم تنیده شده است .
in participatory budgeting,
spread from Porto Alegre, Brazil
to the wards of Chicago.
به اهداف کاهش کربن
اقتباس شده است.
که یک مطالعه موردی باشد برای گذشته،
that you were championing,
و هدفی که برای آن مبارزه می کردید،
that you were able to stir.
فهرست کنید،
انجام می دهید
به اشتراک بگذارید،
می توانیم شبکه ای بزرگ از شهرها بسازیم
که جهان به چشم خود ندیده باشد.
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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