Friday, February 20, 2026
LWV-Downeast
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 this topic:
- Minnesota Winter - Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum | Substack, January 2026
- Welcome to the American Winter; In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening |The Atlantic, Robert Worth, January 2026
- Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong; The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions | The Atlantic, Adam Serwer, January 2026
- Believe Your Eyes; People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis|The Atlantic, Charlie Warzel, January 2026
- Ice in Maine–Helping Others |Maine Calling, January 2026
- Anti-ICE protesters are following same nonviolent playbook used by people in war zones across the world to fight threats to their communities | The Conversation, January 2026
- What I Saw in Minneapolis: The Worst and The Best of Us | The Contrarian, Norm Eisen, January 2026
- Civic Courage Is Mens et Manus | American Enterprise Institute - AEI, Dec 16, 2025
- The Resistance Reaches into Trump Country – Ash Center | October 16, 2025
- Technology for civilian self-protection | International Affairs | Oxford Academic, May 2025
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.