Talk about counter-cultural! On this June 13 Creemee Cast, Lincoln Earle-Centers and Paul Bean discuss the organization Braver Angels and their work in Vermont to bridge the political divide.
“The structural of the organization is that at every level, from grassroots up to leadership, there is a mix of red and blue representation. Braver Angels uses red and blue instead of conservative and liberal” as a less political way of describing differences, Earle-Centers said.
“In St. Albans, we have one of our oldest alliances (local groups), it’s been meeting for seven or eight years,” he said.
The organization’s original Better Angels name was inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s plea for national unity at the close of his first inaugural address. The name was changed to Braver Angels in 2020 pursuant to a trademark infringement suit.
Lincoln (Abraham) said on March 4, 1861: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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