Newsroom Archive for 10/31, 2008

THIS JUST IN: Alexandria City Public Schools Television has announced that it will broadcast "Across the Aisle" beginning today, October 31, and running through Wednesday, November 5 at 9am and 8pm each day. Here is the press release in full:

In these times of nasty election campaigns and bitter partisanship in government, is there any hope that Americans can come together politically?  It appears that the best model for returning civility to our nation’s political process might be found in Charlottesville, at the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
 
ACROSS THE AISLE follows members of a highly selective class of adult students from across the Commonwealth to track their personal and political transformations during a yearlong training program geared for public servants, activists, and lobbyists.  The documentary focuses on seven of the 35 citizen leaders accepted into the 2007 training program.
 
Class members come face to face with their personal biases and political limitations by arguing against their own positions, breaking down political stereotypes, spending real time with their opponents, balancing a state budget, and touring state-run facilities to learn a new and highly functional approach to politics.
 
ACROSS THE AISLE is a poignant and personal story that reveals a new model for political leadership, in which the most powerful tools are civility, trust, and respect.
 
ACROSS THE AISLE may be viewed on ACPS-TV, channel 71 on cable in Alexandria, from October 31 to November 5 at 9:00 a.m. and at 8:00 p.m. daily.