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Economic Security Public Forum in Albuquerque, NM

By Gini Nelson, New Mexico Bankruptcy Lawyer

Okay, this is not about bankruptcy per se, but it’s about how hard life is (that is contributing to the massive increase in bankruptcy filings) and about what we might be able to do about it, individually and as a community. If you live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, consider attending a National Issues Forum (NIF) public forum on economic security that the University of New Mexico’s law school’s Institute of Public Law is conducting in conjunction with the Albuquerque Journal. It takes place March 23, 2011. The Forum will also be the topic of a Sunday morning 10:00 a.m. television interview with IPL Director Paul Biderman (on KOB TV‘s “Eye on New Mexico” program).

As the Forum’s brochure states:

As the nation slowly recovers from its worst recession in decades, it is a good time to ask how we can best take charge of the future so families can feel reasonably secure, parents can help their children prosper, and everyone can move toward a financially stable retirement.

Three options for gaining economic security will be discussed: (1) Act More Responsibly with Our Money; (2) Look Out for Each Other; and (3) Grow Our Way Out.

The NIF works on naming and framing local issues for public deliberation, funded in part by the Kettering Foundation of Dayton, OH, which is sponsoring a national project. From the NIF website, explaining what they do:

About National Issues Forums (NIF)

National Issues Forums (NIF) is a network of civic, educational, and other organizations, and individuals, whose common interest is to promote public deliberation in America. It has grown to include thousands of civic clubs, religious organizations, libraries, schools, and many other groups that meet to discuss critical public issues. Forum participants range from teenagers to retirees, prison inmates to community leaders, and literacy students to university students.

NIF does not advocate specific solutions or points of view but provides citizens the opportunity to consider a broad range of choices, weigh the pros and cons of those choices, and meet with each other in a public dialogue to identify the concerns they hold in common.

Although all forum activity is locally organized, moderated, and financed, the materials they use in common are produced by the Kettering Foundation of Dayton, Ohio, among others, and promoted by the National Issues Forums Institute. Among the publications developed each year are issue books used in the forums-clearly written nonpartisan booklets that describe the problem and present citizens with the advantages and costs of alternative policy choices. Regular, abridged, and Spanish editions of many of the issue books are available, as are videotapes and, in the case of the most recent books, DVDs. Abridged editions are designed for both adult and young new readers

Click here for a link for the brochure about and registration for the Albuquerque Economic Security Forum.

Gini Nelson is a Santa Fe, New Mexico bankruptcy lawyer who helps people file (or avoid) chapter 7 bankruptcy.

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Full post as published by Credit Law Network on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).