The Sam Adams Alliance sponsors a growing number of programs to support citizen involvement. To date, these have included:
Engaging Democracy
A podcast series of interviews hosted by SAM Chairman Eric O’Keefe exploring how the events of America’s past shed light on its current challenges.
Listen to the podcast:
Failing Liberty 101 featuring Professor Bill Damon
Free Brian Aitken, Part I
The Trouble with “Top Two” featuring Christina Tobin
An Inside Look at F.A. Hayek with Stephen Kresge
Activism & the Changing Face of Media featuring Omid Malekan
The NPR of the Right featuring Brad Jackson
Sammies Stories featuring Toby Marie Walker
President Obama & Respect for History with Fouad Ajami
Sammies Stories featuring Jamie Radtke
Getting the Founding Right with Pauline Maier, Part I
Getting the Founding Right with Pauline Maier, Part II
Sammies Stories featuring Ari Armstrong
Sammies Stories featuring John Papola and Russ Roberts
Sammies Stories featuring Brian Costin
Being an Entrepreneur in 2010 featuring Susie Coelho
America’s Next Generation part I
America’s Next Generation part II
Direct Democracy in Europe featuring Andi Gross & Bruno Kaufmann
Direct Democracy in America featuring Paul Jacob
Technology & the State
The Next Wave of Tea Party Activism featuring Anne Sorock
Is America Exceptional? Featuring Arthur Brooks
How to Raise an American featuring Myrna Blyth
In Search of Self-Governance featuring Scott Rasmussen
The Fall and Rise of the Income Tax
The Opportunity of Primaries
The Health Care Vote
Reading the Tea Leaves featuring Anne Sorock
The Politics of Hollywood featuring Andrew Breitbart (Watch the video)
Is Congress Representative
The Great Massachusetts Awakening
The Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
NY-23 and the Third Party Temptation
The Sammies
Begun in 2007, the Sammies is an annual national awards program that honors outstanding achievements in citizen activism. John Stossel of FOX Business was the keynote speaker at the 2011 Sammies ceremony, held at Chicago’s Union Station in April 2011.
Honoring Engaged Citizens
Named for Samuel Adams, this ongoing program recognizes the accomplishments of engaged citizens involved in a range of activities.
These can include conducting voter-registration campaigns, running for public office, demanding transparency in government, developing new forms of citizen journalism that hold public officials accountable for their actions, educating children, rebuilding neighborhoods, and establishing free health-care clinics and food banks.
For a photo gallery from the 2011 Sammies, click here.
Check back in coming days for more information on the 2012 Sammies.