Roosevelt Reaction: #GBAF
Join young people across the country during the 2013 State of the Union address for a national conversation around the purpose of government and how we can build a more inclusive and effective system.
The Roosevelt Institute Campus Network recently released Government by and for Millennial America, a groundbreaking document that crowdsourced the values, opinions, and ideas of over 1,000 young people and 40 student writers to begin a movement to build towards a Millennial vision what government can be and do in a time of rapid transformation and change.
Eight months ago we set out to craft a blueprint and action plan for a 21st century government. We discovered that the Millennial generation is not yet ready to give up on America's ever evolving experiment in a government by and for the people.
How can we hear from more voices? How can we be more transparent? How can government be more egalitarian? How can we both support individual communities and the common good of every American?
On February 12, 2013, the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network will host a national watch party during the State of the Union to start answering some of those difficult questions to a better government.
Watch this video on how we're creating a Government by and for Millennial America:
A Government By and For Millennial America from Roosevelt Institute on Vimeo.
Using this generation's unique ethos and commitment to pragmatic problem-solving, Millennials across the country have collaborated to design their vision for a 21st century democracy and reject the idea that our system is too broken, too stagnant, and too outdated. They have identified the parts of the system that need to be fixed while articulating what a true democracy should look like.
Government By and For Millennial America, the third installment of our blueprint series, tackles some of the most fundamental, divisive, and difficult questions on the purpose of government in furthering our country's progress: how can we hear from more voices? How can we be more transparent? How can government be more egalitarian? How can we both support individual communities and the common good of every American?
This is our country - join us and take hold of the future: http://www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org/govbyandfor
HOW CAN I PLUG INTO THIS OPPORTUNITY?
- Follow the Twitter hashtag #GBAF during the 2013 State of the Union. Create a Twitter account if you don’t have one already and encourage your friends to do the same.
- Live-tweeting: Spark discussion and share your reactions over #GBAF and #SOTU.
- Host a viewing party. Share your pictures with us over Facebook and Twitter and / or email them to dbarry@rooseveltinstitute.org.
- Blog. The Next New Deal is rounding up one-paragraph reactions-- policy analysis to the State of the Union and would love to have students contribute! Please send us a paragraph (no more than 250 words) with your analysis by 10 am EST February 13 (or after the address Tuesday evening). All reactions should be focused on the policies discussed or not discussed. They'll include it in a post with everyone's reactions. Send the work to asmith@rooseveltinstitute.org.
- Share this information with your friends!
- Change your Facebook cover photo in support of this national initiative!
Follow these live-blogs for the up-to-the-minute coverage of the 2013 State of the Union.
- Dante Barry, Campus Network Chapter Services Coordinator
- Lydia Austin, Senior Fellow for Economic Development, University of Michigan
- Adam Jutha, Student Board of Advisors, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Grant Ferowich, Wake Forest University
- Rajiv Narayan, UC-Davis
Watch National Director Taylor Jo Isenberg on #BarackTalk at 5:00pm EST.
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