Citizenship

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Educating for Democracy

Joel Shatzky | Posted 12.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Citizenship, Education, Civic Participation, Arne Duncan, Charter Schools, Civic Engagement, Education Reform, Civic Education, New York News

We face the danger of a future American citizenry which is no longer equipped to analyze political issues rationally, unaware of what "democracy" even means.

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Architecture for Immigration Reform, a University of Denver Report

Jim Griesemer | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration Reform, Citizenship, Amnesty, Visas, BORDER ISSUES, Immigration Debate, H1B Visa, Illegal Immigration, Denver News

Trying to deport some 12 million people who can't be found, and most of whom live in families where some members are citizens and some are illegal, is not a realistic option.

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Citizenship 2.0: New Hampshire Style

James Boyce | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Live Free or Die Alliance, Citizenship, Granite State, Governor John Lynch, Virtual Town Hall, James Boyce, Online Town Hall, New Hampshire, Politics News

Today, the Live Free or Die Alliance launches its new website and with it, a model for online citizen engagement for the rest of the nation to consider.

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The British Supreme Court and the "Jewish Question"

Eric Lurio | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Great Britain, Jews, Religion, Greatbritain, Citizenship, Jewish Culture, World News

The "Who is a Jew?" question is a thorny one, which has been bedeviling Israel since it's inception.

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The British Dare to Determine Who Is a Jew

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Jewish Culture, Jews, Britain, Alan Dershowitz, Politics News

The chutzpa of British judges. They are trying to alter the identity requirements of a three-and-half thousand year old faith that is the precursor of Christianity.

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National Association of Evangelicals Provides Moral Model on Immigration Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Undocumented Immigrants, Nae, Biblical, Immigration, Immigrants, Evangelicals, Migrants, Leith Anderson, Legislative Debate, Immigrant, Immigration Reform, Biblical Foundations, Bible, National Association of Evangelicals, Politics News

Church leaders who have been personally and privately supportive of immigrants and their struggles have now publicly declared that it is morally wrong to keep families apart.

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Citizens or Stakeholders?

Michael Meranze | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Stakeholders, Health Care, President Obama, Politics News

"Stakeholders" is the contemporary version of the language of exclusion. It is a historical retrogression, in effect an updated version of the early modern notion that only property holders should have a voice in politics.

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Hard Questions In Hard Times

Jim Selman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Citizenship, Public Lectures, Environmental, Michael Sandel, Opposition, Defense, Conflict, Pbs, Ethics, Moral Relativism, Justice, Teaching, Conscious-Choice, The Inner Life, Living News

Eldering, as a way of thinking about mid-life leadership, is based on the notion 'wisdom in action.' Our vision is for the Boomer generation to take responsibility for our society and our world and "clean up the mess" before we die.

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A Failure of Citizenship and the Health Care Debacle

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Education, Naturalization, Insurance, Health Care, Voting, Lies, Health Care Reform, Republican Health Care Reform, Politics News

Voting should be seen as a privilege rather than as a consequence of where one is born. Voting should be a right earned rather than conferred by fate or the accident of citizenship.

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A Call to Citizenship

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Citizenship, Health Care Debate, Citizenship Day, Health Care, September 17, Politics News

If the health care debate has been a test of American citizenship, then we have failed that test. But there are still some citizens who want to be part of new and vibrant solutions to our nation's problems.

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The Effects of the Subjugation of English

Fred Silberberg | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Government Services, America, Courts, Interpreters, Equal Protection, Assimilation, English Language, Cultural Cohesion, Politics News

If we really want our society to be more cohesive, if we want everyone to be treated equally, the way to do that is to insure that people who live here speak the same language.

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Serious Citizenship

Robert Koehler | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Ministry of Peace, Afghanistan, International Day of Peace, Costa Rica, War, Politics News

"Most of the time, we are grievously feeling that we're not getting anywhere and that in the ongoing Afghan tragedy, 'peace' or 'humanity' is a rather...

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"And That's The Way It Really Is": My Memorial to Walter Cronkite

Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Government, Citizenship, Birthers, John McCain, Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite, Fair and Balanced, CBS News, Cultural Wars, Barack Obama Citizenship, Barack Obama, Media News

If Walter Cronkite were alive today, I wonder what he would say to us -- as he looked out over the landscape of another war that can't be won.

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What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Fundamentalism, Social Justice, President Obama, Teabaggers, Islamists, Secularism, Violence, Globalization, Gun Control, International Law, Obama, Christian Nation, Religious Right, Guns, Nation-State, Politics, Gandhi, Us Constitution, Moral Majority, Christ, Taxation, Health Care, Spirituality, Taxes, Christian Right, Jesus, Terrorism, War, Democracy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Terroists, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Far Right, Progressive Christianity, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Christianity, Socialism, World, Gospels, Politics News

I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.

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Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Detention, Biometric Identification, 2006 Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigration, Numbersusa, Jeff Sessions, Immigrants, Immigration, James Sensenbrenner, Jim Webb, Deportation, 2007 Immigration Bill, Obama Administration, Peter Schey, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Tom Daschle, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, Racism, Visas, Earned Legalization, Undocumented-Immigrants, Legalization, Immigration Debate, 1986 Immigration Reform, John McCain, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, La Raza, Xenophobia, Amnesty, Lou Dobbs, E-Verify, Chuck Hagel, Jon Kyl, Ted Kennedy, John Cornyn, Immigration Reform, John Ashcroft, Rahm Emanuel, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2005 Sensenbrenner Bill, Lulac, Organized Labor, Broken Borders, Chuck Schumer, Mexican Immigration, Torture, National Identification Card, Politics News

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

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Leahy: Obama Leaving Thousands Of Refugees In Limbo

Government Executive | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Barack Obama, Patrick Leahy, Senate Judiciary Chairman, Immigration, Leahy, Obama, Obama Refugees, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Homeland Security Department, Refugees, Asylum, Politics News

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is calling on the Obama administration to correct problems that have left thousands of refugees and as...

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The "Birthers" and Our Ailing Political Culture

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Birthers, Obama Patriotism, Birther-Movement, President Obama, Barack Obama Citizenship, Democracy, Media, American Culture, Barack Obama, Politics, Patriotism, Progress, Sean Hannity, Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Politics News

These birthers represent a small but vocal minority in this country who have somehow failed to grasp that American democracy is rooted in a set of principles, not a set of demographic characteristics.

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Are IKEA, Outlet Malls, Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods Really Bargains?

Anis Shivani | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Citizenship, Vance Packard, Christopher Lasch, Whole Foods, Cheap, Chinese Factories, Outlet Malls, Wages, Craftsmanship, Cheap Eats, Globalization, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Reisman, Ellen Ruppel Shell, Wal-Mart, Shrimp Farming, Slow Food, Labor, Consumerism, Ikea, Michael Pollan, Betty Friedan, Local Food, Chinese Exports, Marketing, Sustainability, Deforestation, Pricing, Eric Schlosser, Red Lobster, Food, Green News

American consumers are being taken for a ride.

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American Ignorance

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Fourth of July, Newt Gingrich, Global Citizens, Politics News

What does it say about our country if, as I certainly believe might be the case, America's newest citizens know more about American civics and history than many native born Americans?

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Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers

The Washington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Dhs, Bush, Jeff Sessions, Social Security, Obama Immigration, President Obama, George W. Bush, Immigration, Immigrants, Obama, Department of Homeland Security, Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Workers, Politics News

President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers wi...

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Immigration Detainee's Death Causes Controversy

The New York Times | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Death, America, Pakistan, 9/11, Immigration, Deportation, World Trade Center, Immigration Reform, Green Card, Visa, Prison, Jail, Immigrant, September 11th, Immigration Policy, Ahmad Tanveer, Politics News

When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scraw...

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Stateless People Number Up To 15 Million People Worldwide (AUDIO)

WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Julia Harrington, Jews, Citizenship, Dominican Republic, Bill Berkeley, Ben Piven, Tutsi, Gaza, Dawn Calabia, Foreign Affairs, Palestine, Lisa Biagiotti, Adam Hussein Adam, Haitians, Stateless to Statehood, Barack Obama, Adam Hussein, Tune In, Roma, Human Rights, Samira Trad, Haiti, Statelessness, Tutsis, Weekly Webcast, Europe, Katie Combs, Stateless People, Advocacy, Nubians, Audio, World News

Imagine you have no birth certificate, no passport and no legal rights. You're trapped in the country where you were born, but no document indica...

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Gibbs: We Don't Have The Votes For Immigration Reform

The Hill | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Senate, Congress, White House, Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary, Obama Administration, Obama, Immigration, Immigrant, Press, Votes, Politics News

The votes aren't there for the Obama administration to achieve its desired immigration reform, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday....

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150 Children Sue Obama Administration Over Parents' Deportation

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration, Miami, Immigrants, Deportation, Citizenship, Immigration Suit, Deportation Duit, Bush Administration, Obama Administration, Politics News

MIAMI — Ronald Soza celebrated his 10th birthday Wednesday with cake and a serenade by more than 100 other children and their parents. His own ...

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Worst Week Ever: Republicans Unhinged

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Congress, Hiv, Tony Perkins, Al Franken, 9/11, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clarence Thomas, Same-Sex Marriage, John Sununu, Rnc, Kenneth the Page, Norm Coleman, Nancy Pelosi, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Bobby Jindal, Michael Bloomberg, Mitt Romney, Alabama, Newt Gingrich, Stormy Daniels, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Christian Issues, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, Jon Huntsman, 30 Rock, Tom Delay, Helicopters, Christianity, Utah, Senate, David Vitter, Family Research Council, Ronald Reagan, Vermont, Democratic Party, California, Bob Smith, Charlie Crist, Nrsc, Hip Hop, New Hampshire, Sara Palin, Richard Shelby, Stimulus Package, Northeast, Arlen Specter, John McCain, Florida, Louisiana, Rush Limbaugh, Kentucky, Porn, Marine One, New York City, John Cornyn, Stuart Rothenberg, Rudy Giuliani, Jim Bunning, Presidential Campaign, Columbine, San Francisco, Fox News, Evolution, Gay Issues, Republicans Unhinged, Socialists, Politics News