We Need To Talk! – Exploring Community and Civil Society through Essays, Videos, Texts, and Photographs

There’s lots of speaking

But not much talking.

Or listening.

We need to talk

To each other.

Because if we don’t…

AI-generated image by DALL-E
Prompt: A photorealistic image of six frogs with human faces in a pot of water over a campfire.

But how?

That is what this website is about!

Here are some positive examples, in video, of grassroots spontaneous citizen organizing.

Band-Aiding Together

A small rural community bands together and fights a global ep;idemic.

In good weather, on Monday evenings along the Rondout in Kingston, NY, people just seem to emerge into a park...

In 2011, a few citizens of Pine Plains, NY, (population 5,000 humans, 3,000 cows) had a vision. They would organize...

We watch how a community can emerge through participation in a group project -- in this case we go backstage...

There are certain restaurants where people seem to come together. It's a place to eat and to meet and make...