Citizens at the Center

And while we're on the topic of civic engagement- which we'll be on through the run of My Name Is Rachel Corrie- ET wants to share a document that's guided us.

In 2006, the Washington, D.C.-based Case Foundation published its study Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement. The report finds:

“New civic cultures [need to] lay the groundwork for embedding a deeper ethic of civic engagement across communities so that it becomes part and parcel of everyday life, rather than episodic activities such as volunteering or voting that are squeezed between work or school and family and less important than either.”

Check out the report. Consider its conclusions against the sparseness of Wikipedia's page on "civic engagement."

That's why we're producing My Name Is Rachel Corrie.