Better Angels’ One America bus tour stops in South Salem TONIGHT!

Better Angels’ One America bus tour

A National bipartisan movement to bring Americans together by bridging the partisan divide 

On July 18th, 2017 Better Angels’ One America bus tour will make a stop in South Salem on Tuesday evening. Better Angels launched the One America bus tour this summer to bring together Democrats and Republicans for discussions and workshops that help them clarify political disagreements, reduce rancor and stereotyped thinking, and identify areas of common ground.

We welcome local media reporters and editors to visit with Better Angels leaders prior to the gathering on Tuesday evening.  If you are interested please contact Ciaran O’Conner at 917-609-6798. 

Better Angels is a national bipartisan movement to bridge our nation’s political divide and reunite America. In post-2016 America where communities, neighborhoods and families are increasingly divided, Better Angels is helping folks with differing political beliefs find more productive ways to listen and learn from one another. By creating opportunities for meaningful discussions, Better Angels works to dial down the heated rhetoric that gets in the way of real conversations and accurate understanding of our differences. The objective is not to push an agenda or change participant’s minds, but rather to provide a safe place for deeper understanding.

As part of its efforts, Better Angels launched the One America bus tour this summer. Beginning in Waynesville, Ohio on July 4^th, the tour is traveling across the country conducting community workshops and gatherings with an interactive curriculum developed under the guidance of a bipartisan group of scholars, policy makers and civil society leaders. Each stop includes the opportunity for Trump Administration supporters and critics to meet to clarify disagreements, reduce rancor and stereotyped thinking, search for common ground, and increase empathy for one another.

The numerous workshop involved in the bus tour give participants an opportunity to engage in honest, respectful discussion – moving past the insults that characterize our current political climate. The group is working to cultivate understanding of opposing perspectives, and forming relationships with those on the other side of the aisle.

““I am extremely grateful to have had Better Angels come to my community, it gave me and my neighbors the opportunity to learn how to disagree but not be disrespectful.  We found that there is so much more common ground than you would think listening to the TV.  We are all Americans,” said William Fry a participant in the Lebanon, Ohio gathering.

For more information about Better Angels and the One America Bus Tour please visit www.Better-Angels.org or contact info@better-angels.org