Showing videos filed under: travel

• Rick Steves: Travel as a Political Act

  June 9, 2009

  For Rick Steves, popular PBS travel host and author of more than thirty guidebooks, traveling has become a way of life. Recently back from Iran, he shares what traveling has meant to him and encourages Americans to grab that passport and step outside of their 'comfort zone'. His latest book, Travel as Political Act is just out from Nation Books.

  • Rick Steves
  • travel
  • Travel as Political Act

• The F Word: Local Lessons in Democracy from the Gulf Coast

  June 8, 2009

  In 2007, Southern Studies published a widely-covered report that found only 30% of money spent on Katrina was focused on long-term rebuilding, and only half of that had been spent. Now the fight is for Citizen Participation -- and some experiments in real public involvement in decision-making are taking place.

  • Chris Kromm
  • f word
  • gulf coast
  • Institute for Southern Studies
  • katrina
  • New Orleans
  • travel