I want to first start on the political thing, and then I wanna talk about what you're doing civically, because you've been very civically involved here in New York City.
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And two, get science communities to get more civically engaged.
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Trans people are civically engaged and rarely identify as Republicans.
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I'm just not civically involved they way I should be.
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We are raising our children to be politically and civically aware.
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This politics presumed that the general black population was civically mute.
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Without oversight, there's no civically responsible way to allow digital ad buys.
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Google has increasingly worked civically minded information into its search result pages.
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National service builds better communities by building better, more civically invested citizens.
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The fact is the people of Ohio are civically engaged and active.
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Vermont was the most civically engaged, but the fortieth in military engagement.
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A lot of them are civically engaged and they've pursued higher education.
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Don't we want educated, civically active young people heading to the polls?
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It isn't enough to become civically engaged on behalf of our own causes.
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For these civically inclined startups and campaigns, the donations come at an urgent moment.
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The problem is, in the digital era people don't know how to civically engage.
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It has allowed our community to grow civically and cultivate our partnerships city wide.
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Americans are more civically engaged than they have been in more than 100 years.
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He says young Latinos like Frida are forced to become civically engaged because their parents can't.
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What to watch: Women across the board are more likely to be civically or politically engaged.
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The festival-like atmosphere directly confronts the notion that the city doesn't have civically engaged residents.
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That is why it is imperative that all creative people and critical thinkers are civically engaged.
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Artists and creative professionals are generally better educated and more civically engaged than the average citizen.
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How can policies allow for civically "good" bots while stopping those that are repressive or manipulative?
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When effective, these nonpartisan organizations enhance the democracy by promoting civically engaged communities and full political participation.
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Students are more activist in nature and more civically engaged now then they have been in generations.
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With Nancy Kleaver, she runs PARADE, a nonprofit arts organization that commissions civically engaged art in Queens.
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It's the piece about making users more informed and civically engaged where Facebook promises to break new ground.
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It wants to see the world move toward a supportive, safe, informed, civically engaged and inclusive global community.
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So not necessarily across one party line, but really just redefining what it means to be civically engaged.
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"It took a Trump to make people realize how important it is to be civically engaged," Ruiz said.
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He says Facebook's next chapter will seek to build more supportive, safe, informed, civically-engaged and inclusive communities.
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There are some signs that politics in 2018, beyond the presidency, are anything but stagnant and civically subdued.
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This shows how building an informed community, supportive local communities, and a civically-engaged community are all related.
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Facebook said it released Candidate Info as part of its "effort to foster civically-engaged communities" on their platform.
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"When people see me — a 16-year-old — civically engaged, they think, 'Well, you're probably an exception,'" she says.
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They start businesses, volunteer at and run local organizations like the Clarkston Community Center, and they are civically engaged.
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The positive consequence of the political meme ecosystem is that average people at least seem to be more civically engaged.
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The organization has long encouraged participants to become civically engaged, providing them with the tools and mentoring to do so.
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Help first-generation immigrants engage civically All told, 73 percent of adult Asians in the United States were born elsewhere.
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I care a lot about reforming our criminal justice system and I care a lot about getting people civically engaged.
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These gains were amplified by the historic increase in women voting, marching, becoming civically engaged and making their voice heard.
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Such discussion is exactly the goal of our civically-engaged theater; this discourse is the basis of a healthy democracy.
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"We're entirely focused on getting young people civically engaged in the classroom," says Scott Warren, the founder of Generation Citizen.
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An obvious question would be: Aren't the kind of people who show up to a Civic Saturday already engaged civically?
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Each club is usually dominated by civically minded members of the local business elite, which in New York means bankers.
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Such discussion is exactly the goal of our civically engaged theater; this discourse is the basis of a healthy democracy.
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I am willing to participate civically and peacefully in all the calls made by President Guaidó that require massive support.
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Why it matters: It's part of a greater push to get Snap users civically-engaged ahead of this year's midterm elections.
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In a town with a strong local newspaper, people are much more informed; they're much more likely to be civically active.
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But, what else to expect from elected leaders when the public is this civically disengaged and detached from the political process?
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In a town with a strong local newspaper, people are much more informed, they're much more likely to be civically active.
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Others were more focused on local issues, such as education, or said they sought to get other young people civically involved.
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"We were two nerds in a sea of nerds that believed that more nerds should be very civically active," Mylavarapu recalls.
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If we are serious about educating young people to become civically informed and engaged, our country's dollars must follow our words.
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TIMPF: Yes, people always say we need government to build the roads and that we just need more civically minded pizza companies.
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In this day and age, I think it's extremely important for young people, like myself, to be civically engaged and politically motivated.
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Civically-Engaged CommunityOur society will reflect our collective values only if we engage in the civic process and participate in self-governance.
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"We're at the start of this new normal, and more people are more civically engaged than they ever have been," Ory said.
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Quite frankly, if her work activates the hardcore Hillary Clinton fans and keeps them politically and civically engaged, more power to her.
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Since the election of Donald Trump, women of all ages and backgrounds have become more civically engaged, especially on the Democratic side.
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In response, many of the best colleges and universities in the country have come out in support of civically-engaged high schoolers.
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Many were not big news consumers or very civically engaged, had little trust in the election system and little interest in politics.
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But Arlington's real strength is the decades of planning that have produced one of the most vibrant, civically engaged communities in the world.
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Likewise, if civically learned, the public will be knowledgeable about the nuances of public policies and more understanding of a public official's role.
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He believes that a civically focused nonprofit that makes an open source voting machine is a way to restore trust to the process.
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A second common thread for these cities was that they were often led by business leaders who were both entrepreneurial and civically minded.
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In "Pardon Edward Snowden," a poet named Mark McCain agonizes over whether to endorse some civically minded doggerel ("Putin" rhymes with "boot in").
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Every day, all across America, children in schools, members of the military, officials and those civically engaged also pledge allegiance to the flag.
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How do we help people build a civically-engaged community in a world where participation in voting sometimes includes less than half our population?
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Encouraging employees to be civically engaged is one thing, but political requests from bosses can veer toward coercion — regardless of whether bosses intend it.
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One of the major differences between caucus and primary voters is that caucus voters tend to be more civically engaged than their primary counterparts.
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They're also civically engaged, as 153% have attended a political rally or event, 57% have contacted an elected official and 38% have donated to campaigns.
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A so-called Trump effect has drawn some of them in, with disappointment over the presidential election fueling a desire to become more civically engaged.
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If not physically then civically, we're in a dangerous place when it comes to how we view, treat and talk about people we disagree with.
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Assessing these systems is a data-intensive task and creating parallel municipal systems to make sure people don't fall through the cracks is civically very important.
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We've all heard it before -- millennials are apathetic, young adults aren't civically engaged, they don't understand the value of voting -- the accusations go on and on.
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"We've found that when we educate Latinos, they're more civically engaged than most voting groups," said Héctor Sánchez Barba, the executive director of Mi Familia Vota.
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Dubovik's mother speculated her daughter might have become civically minded when a proposed road project threatened the family homestead where she planned to start a dog shelter.
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The big picture: The announcement comes as more brands, influencers and media companies are increasingly working to get young people to vote and become more civically engaged.
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"Studies show that those lacking access to reliable local news—especially newspapers—are less informed about politics, less civically engaged, and less likely to vote," Pickard said.
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"We need to figure out a way to promote a culture of participation and make it fun, celebratory and appealing for people to participate civically," she said.
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Political Engagement Those who are politically engaged (which is not entirely separate from being civically involved) hold those in power accountable, especially in today's divisive political climate.
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"We've done all the things civically responsible that we can do to ask for fairness and justice for Ramarley's family," Mr. King said in a telephone interview.
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Indeed, the inherently ethical and positively disruptive nature of such technology may attract broad support from an ideologically diverse cross-section of civically-minded institutions and individuals.
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The vote comes at a time when politicians and local nonprofits are increasingly calling on tech leaders to become more charitable and civically engaged members of their communities.
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And studies found that those who watched "The Daily Show" and other political-entertainment programs were more informed, more critical, and more civically engaged than those who didn't.
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At a time when our community is constantly under attack, it is more important than ever that Latinos participate; not just civically and electorally but through public service.
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As Generation Citizen participants, they've learned how our democracy works and how to be civically engaged — whether that's voting, contacting the government for help, or attending political gatherings.
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It found, perhaps surprisingly, that Mr. Trump was stronger among civically engaged white voters, suggesting that nonresponse among socially isolated voters wouldn't have biased surveys toward Mrs. Clinton.
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If you're planning to take part in the national school walkout, read this As parents it's our job to teach our children to be confident, civically engaged citizens.
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A little money and deviousness goes a long way for foreign actors in propagandizing veterans, who are among the most trusted and civically engaged constituencies in American politics.
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Chance is generally civically inclined: One of the songs from his latest album, "Coloring Book," leads off with a complaint that children are not taught about taxes in school.
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"Headlines have said there's been an uptick in loneliness, likely because research shows more people are not married, aren't civically or socially involved and are living alone," Hawkley said.
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Thunder, played by Nafessa Williams, and Lightning, played by China Anne McClain, are Black Lightning's daughters, and they're just as cunning, intelligent, and civically-minded as their superhero father.
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The significance of the moment wasn't lost on Usry; she's spent the past several years trying to understand why some people who've endured personal trauma might be less civically engaged.
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"Supporting authentic conversations on our platform and helping build a more informed, civically engaged community are important to us," chief security officer Alex Stamos wrote on Facebook's website on Thursday.
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One-third of respondents also said they were civically engaged beyond voting, via activities like working on voter registration drives, giving people rides to the polls, and donating to political candidates.
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In a series of interactive discussions and presentations, the group explored skills the next generation of leaders will need to become civically engaged, media savvy and active in the democratic process.
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Moving forward, Aquino says the group wants to keep march-goers civically engaged — making sure they register to vote, encouraging them to take an interest in local politics, and so on.
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The feature fits in with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto published last month, where he called for a focus on using Facebook to build a more civically engaged community (among other goals).
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The new direction for Facebook governance accepts that not everyone is civically active, and gives those who are more control while providing settings in line with local culture to everyone else.
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President Obama on Saturday previewed his upcoming trip to the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and called on media and high-tech entrepreneurs to become more civically engaged.
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The new tools give both constituents and lawmakers more targeted means of interacting with another, and are a part of Facebook's larger push to introduce civically focused features to the platform.
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"Building a civically-engaged community means building new tools to help people engage in a thoughtful and informed way," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said of the new tools in a post.
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After growing up civically engaged and working as a community organizer, the city kid became the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, four years ago.
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" The job, it said, involves "developing robust voter registration drives," working with schools to improve civics lessons and "engaging local and national partners to develop new ways to engage people civically.
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Bereavement centers have made community support for grieving families a top priority; civically-minded people should support their local grief support center through the National Alliance for Grieving Children and contribute.
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Through a series of interactive panels and discussions, the group explored skills the next generation of leaders will need to become civically engaged, media savvy and active in the democratic process.
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Snapchat adding polling locations to Snap Map ahead of midterms (Axios) Why it matters: It's part of a greater push to get Snap's users civically-engaged ahead of this year's midterm elections.
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More than 100 attendees applauded Omar's comments during the inaugural Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy in Washington, DC. The two-day event is meant to encourage American Muslims to become civically engaged.
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I think having parents who were so civically engaged was a key piece of this, as was growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the onset of the AIDS epidemic.
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Organizers of a "voting village" at the annual Def Con hacker convention have packed a conference room at Caesars Palace with voting machines and have asked civically-curious hackers to wreak havoc.
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Being smart is one thing, but being civically engaged philanthropically, giving their time to the community that they live in and being good team members is front and center for me always.
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But at a high level, he writes, he has five goals: to help users build communities that are supportive, that are safe, that are informed, that are civically engaged, and that are inclusive.
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For a variety of reasons, millennials in particular haven't been particularly keen to exercise their power, and one can only guess how civically engaged Generation Z will be unless substantive changes are made.
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Lowering the voting age does seem to help (at least a little bit) to create a population of high-participation, civically engaged voters — or, at least, it did so when Austria tried it.
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While it wasn't directly relevant to the role she was applying for, it showed that she volunteered for causes she cared about — and that's the sort of civically engaged applicant we were looking for.
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She marched early Sunday morning with the non-profit Voto Latino, an advocacy group that aims to get Latinos civically engaged, and was joined by actor Joshua Jackson and Jenni Konner, the showrunner for Girls.
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I'm working with Harry Philbrick, in Philadelphia, a place I've lived for eight years — a city I deeply adore, there's just a lot of artists here who are very civically driven and imaginative and wild.
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While Gen Z is civically active, candidates will have to overcome the generation's lack of faith in politics as a driver for change, said Jonah Stillman, co-founder of the consulting firm Gen Z Guru.
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Chelsea Clinton told CBS This Morning that she is "definitely not the right person to defeat [President Trump] in 2020," but she does believe that his presidency should inspire young people to become more civically engaged.
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"I certainly hope that the renewed interest, and the new interest as well from young women who hadn't been as civically engaged or interested in politics, will be the silver lining down the road," she adds.
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When public-sector unions became a significant force in the 1960s and 70s, Mareschal told me, city and state governments were largely staffed by young, educated, civically minded workers, mainly people of color and white women.
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A profile of the politically minded sisters in Vogue last December noted that their father, Wayne, is a Republican, while their mother, Cecelia is a "ferociously civically active Democrat," along with an older brother, Kurt, a Republican.
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To help combat this issue, companies are starting to think about how to introduce new progressive benefits that will empower employees to take the time they need to be more civically engaged and active members of their communities.
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"A huge part of the American people, the less-than-affluent majority, is civically malnourished due to the sad state of U.S. journalism — and that the nation's broad electorate is thus all but certainly ill informed," Stites wrote.
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In the years in between, the New York City lawmaker says he worked washing dishes, in a factory and as a taxi driver and contributed to the city through taxes, but was unable to civically participate in elections.
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"I and many others in the tech sector who are civically engaged are investing an enormous amount of resources and energy into efforts around the midterm elections in November," prominent Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway told Recode in September.
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Neither Zuckerberg nor Pichai directly addressed the notion of overly powerful platforms themselves causing structural societal harms, such as by eroding the civically minded institutions that are essential to defend free societies and indeed uphold the rule of law.
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We are more civically engaged than ever, and at a time when we feel left out of the policy discussions of Washington, the door is wide open for a candidate to recognize our real concerns and earn our support.
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"There is more we must do to support the news industry to make sure this vital social function is sustainable" Under "civically-engaged community," Zuckerberg said that Facebook is well positioned to help boost public participation in local politics.
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In the future, I believe the American people must be far more politically and civically engaged, identifying wise and honest leaders and promoting them in office more proactively, rather than taking a more passive approach as they've done for decades.
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Programs that put inmates to work on civically needed but potentially risky jobs are not rare — thousands of those who fight forest fires in California are prisoners — and Pine Bluff is not the only place where the work is clearing blight.
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"I got more civically-involved because of this past election; the Bernie Sanders campaign and the Trump campaign both, in their own ways, inspired me to be more active," said Jill Young, a 27-year-old travel agent who organized protests in Indianapolis.
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It is our responsibility as emergency managers and disaster professionals to preserve the opportunity that children's lives represent, so they can be productive members of the workforce, civically engaged and looking out for those in need when their time to lead comes.
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In Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's nearly 6,000-word manifesto published last month, he laid out a number of global ambitions he had for the social network in the days ahead — including one where its users became more "civically-engaged" and voted more often.
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In standard stump speeches, the candidate would repeatedly point to the top-heavy and civically unsustainable ownership structure of the existing investment economy—noting, for example, the fact that the top tenth of Americans control 84 percent of all U.S.-owned stock.
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The tools of killing — hand grenades, cluster bombs, modern rifles and cartridges, attack gunships, knives, swords, arrows and more — are assigned repeated cameos, as are military insignia and medals, including the American military's civically sanctified Purple Heart, issued for combat deaths and wounds.
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We are inundated with countless media messages transmitted via green-consumer marketing and storied popular culture that reassure us that our most powerful role in addressing climate change and other environmental problems is as individual consumers, not as collectively and civically engaged citizens.
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"To work with talent that can authentically communicate to their fans the importance of being civically engaged is key in getting young people out to the polls in November," Kiki Burger, director of marketing and events at Rock the Vote, said in a statement.
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Beyond what the House Intelligence Committee hearing next week will reveal, we all have a fuller responsibility to engage civically and civilly and to ensure that our citizens can critically analyze the news and discern the big difference between reality and politically motivated fabrication.
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While it's true that too many people now think of "Republican" judges and "Democratic" judges (which is even worse than "conservative" and "liberal"), this civically damaging shorthand is a function of divergent legal theories that have come to map onto ideologically sorted political parties.
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If it agrees to hear the case, it'll also have to decide whether civically engaged citizens can still trust their political opponents to operate in good faith when they hold the levers of power in the state of California—and by extension, the nation.
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"He creates a positive school culture by empowering his students -- many of whom have experienced trauma -- to become civically minded social advocates who use their skills and voices to affect physical and policy changes at their school and in their communities," the council said in a statement.
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Why it matters: One of Zuckerberg's stated goals for 2018 is to make sure Facebook stays true to its mission of helping connect people to stay civically engaged, and this move follows a series of blog posts discussing the role Facebook plays in democracy and civic engagement.
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As a result, even in this new, more chaotic political environment, New Hampshire still has the kind of intimate, civically minded electorate, as well as deep grassroots tradition of participation needed to make this state an ideal place to thoroughly test the mettle of our future presidents.
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"We're very lucky in the same way Apple has a business model that allows them to take a customer-friendly stance on privacy, our business model is such that we can take a socially friendly civically friendly approach to the issue of deepfakes," Mason tells me.
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And the essence of civic virtue is the willingness, in matters of state, to put the interests of the community ahead of one's personal interest—an impossible demand, as green and republican thinkers jointly concede, amid the conditions of acute wealth inequality in civically imperiled societies like today's America.
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But the churchgoers and nonchurchgoers differ more in social capital: The irreligious are less likely to have college degrees, less likely to be married and more likely to be divorced; they're also less civically engaged, less satisfied with their neighborhoods and communities, and less trusting and optimistic in general.
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Enlisting three dozen star singers, excerpts from 29 operas and a stage full of vintage film footage and uncanny projected evocations of classic productions, the Met made a case for its centrality — not just artistically but also civically, not just in the past but also in the future.
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" Eleina Raines, an Atlanta-based educator and Abrams supporter who was there that night, said that while she's always impressed by "Governor Abrams," she was pleased that Abrams didn't address the crowd as "apathetic millennials" but instead as "civically engaged folks who want politicians to meet us where we are.
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Zaneeta Daver, the director of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, which works with colleges and universities to increase the number of civically engaged students, tells PEOPLE that low voter turnout among college students may be as a result of poor execution, as opposed to a problem related to intention.
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They're running around and assuming that everyone follows everything, but I can tell you, even with folks who are active in their communities in the middle of Trump country, civically minded citizens who read the news, you can bring up five Trump scandals and they may have heard of one.
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Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of Girls Scouts of the USA, said in a statement: "We are, and will remain, the first choice for girls and parents who want to provide their girls opportunities to build new skills, explore STEM and the outdoors, participate in community projects, and grow into happy, successful, civically engaged adults."
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"Even if it just helps one extra person get to the march, and it helps them be more civically active, then I will be fully satisfied," said Ms. Bugeja, who worked on the project over her holiday break and still spends up to three hours a day revising it, in addition to working full time.
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By the numbers: The poll also finds that roughly half of Americans have been civically active on social media in the past year, with 34% saying they have taken part in a group that shares an interest in an issue/cause and 32% saying that they've encouraged others to take action on issues important to them.
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The latter half of his career, after he grew restless with the art world and moved into cartoonish public sculpture, collaborating with his second wife, the art historian Coosje van Bruggen (who died in 19623), has somewhat obscured his outré spirit — in part because many of the outdoor works, funny and toylike, have become so civically beloved.
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And despite my innocence, I was civically sentient enough to understand that Mr. Trump and his producers must have known there was an entire cross-section of other households across America that probably had a soft spot for the contestant Jessie Conners, an earnest young white woman from Wisconsin who'd carved out a managerial position for herself.
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And although the Women's March and the president's election have played a big role in getting female candidates ready to run, the latest storm of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men, put the icing on the cake for many of them to say "enough" and decide to run and get more involve, both politically and civically.
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It's been so therapeutic for me after leaving the administration to be able to continue doing what I care so much about it and that's helping — and I'm looking around this audience — helping young people get civically involved and realize that the world is in your hands and we're counting on you, and giving them the tools that they need in order to go forth and change the world.
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The unprecedented surge of women who are stepping up to run for political office, more than 13,000 since election night, according to some sources, has been one positive trend we have seen in the wake of the election: Women are becoming civically engaged and rising up in all kinds of ways, as evidenced by the millions of women (and men) who participated in the historic Women's March and continue to remain active and mobilized, most recently in a national strike.
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