Holiday News| More...
 

Civic Participation

A Standing Ovation For Upstanders

Deborah Plummer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Civic Participation, Civic Engagement, Facing History and Ourselves, Choosing to Participate Exhibit, Happiness, The Giving Life, Living News
Deborah Plummer

Upstanders are people who, when faced with information that is troubling because of injustice, take a positive stand and act on behalf of themselves and others.

Read Post

Man on The Street: The Vote Wants You To Get Out for It on Health Care

Brian Ross | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, President Obama, Get Out the Vote, Democracy, Health-Action, Barack Obama, United States Congress, Politics, Civic Participation, The Vote, Civic Engagement, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Health Action, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Bill O'Reilly, Humor, Political Humor, Satire, Political Satire, Politics News
Brian Ross

I stood outside of a town hall meeting the other day to interview people who had participated and recorded this really amazing interview with one of the more influential speakers on health care reform.

Read Post

Our Children (and Our Country) Deserve Democratic Schools

Sam Chaltain | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Civil Liberties, Education, Civic Participation, Independence Day, Civic Engagement, Civics, Civic Duty, Education Reform, Politics News
Sam Chaltain

It is possible -- indeed, essential -- for schools to find the right organizational balance between individual freedom and group structure.

Read Post

Become a Rock Star Volunteer

Lisa Honig Buksbaum | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Civic Participation, Charity, Volunteering, Passion, Cancer, Hugs, Compassion, Living News
Lisa Honig Buksbaum

The simple actions of giving and receiving rejuvenate us because these gestures remind us what it means to be human.

Read Post

Archbishop Tutu's Dream for the Future

Michelle Cote | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Purpose Project, Leadership, Social Justice, Civic Participation, Social Change, Civic Engagement, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Desmond Tutu, Youth Activism, Civic Generation, Generation Gap, Living News
Michelle Cote

"I'm comiiiiinggg!" Tutu sings out from the adjacent room, the words rolling off his tongue in a playfully high-pitched refrain, before he comes wheeling and teetering -- all 5'2" of him -- around the corner of his suite at the Atlanta Grand Hyatt.

Read Post

My Exclusive Interview with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

Marianne Schnall | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Supreme Court, Education, Civic Participation, Sandra Day O'Connor, Courts, Civics, Schools, Media, Politics, Politics News
Marianne Schnall

I recently spoke with the inspirational former Supreme Court Justice about her new web site, the judiciary and her legacy as the first woman on the Supreme Court.

Read Post

Take Note: News Corp Quietly Owns NYC Neighborhood Newspapers

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Politics, Digital Media, Newspapers, Civic Participation, New Corp, Community Organizing, Democracy, Media, Policy, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, New York City, Journalism, Mexico, Media News
BlackAndBrownNews

With News Corp's purchase of neighborhood publications like the Brooklyn Paper, all that annoying journalism that challenges pesky things like protecting citizens from eminent domain is all but lost.

Read Post

Obama's Call to Public Service and the Boomer Generation

Mark Miller | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civic Participation, Volunteering, Barack Obama, Public Service, Baby Boomers, Obama Public Service, Economy, Politics News
Mark Miller

Boomers were a big force in Obama's army of campaign foot soldiers, and tapping them for broader public service would have a huge impact -- in part because there are so many of us.

Read Post

Bloggers: Get Thee to Congressional Staffs!

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama’s Chances, Sunlight Foundation, Youth Vote, Participatory Democracy, Civic Participation, Conservatives, The White House Project, President Obama, Influence Peddling, On the Ground 2008, Bloggers Obama, Congress, Community Organizing, Obama Transition, Progressive Politics, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

You twenty-somethings who are reading this, if you can't take your day job after being part of such a political earthquake like last week's election, go find your local Member of Congress and apply for a job.

Read Post

Voting for Democracy: The Obama Vision of Open Government and Public Engagement

Peter M. Shane | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Obama, Civic Participation, Information Technology, Technology, Barack Obama, Civic Engagement, Communication, Politics News
Peter M. Shane

The Obama platform is something of a "Top Ten" list when it comes to proposals for federal leadership in revitalizing democracy through technology.

Read Post

Winning -- and Running -- the Presidency as a Participatory Democracy

Craig Newmark | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Participatory Democracy, Civic Participation, Barack Obama, Politics News
Craig Newmark

As more of us get Net access, we're getting the tools for the kind of representative democracy the Founders envisioned. Whoever wins the presidency will be faced with an electorate that is genuinely empowered.

Read Post

China's Fake Tiger Photos and Its Growling Citizens

Alex Pasternack | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Photoshop, Civic Participation, Beijing, China, Nature, Wildlife, Tiger, Green News
Alex Pasternack

The South China tiger hasn't been seen since the 1960s. That's why photographs that emerged last year in Shaanxi Province, China, earned so much suspicion from eagle-eyed bloggers.

Read Post