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Mayor Mockus
Learn about the innovative programs that Bogotá mayor Antanas Mocus instituted to make improvements to the city, and reflect on the ways that change can be made in a society.
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Not Just Awareness, But Action
Read President Barack Obama’s commencement address at Howard University from 2016 about his vision of civic participation and the duties of citizenship.
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Open-Source Participation
Learn about how bloggers and activists in Kenya used technology to respond to violence after a contested election in 2008.
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The Voices of Millions
Learn about the advent of online activism and consider the internet's impact on civic participation.
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Walking with the Wind
Congressman and activist John Lewis describes his vision of how we can work together to strengthen our communities and make a better world.
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We the People in the United States
Learn how the US Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law has been questioned throughout US history in debates over issues such as women's right to vote and birthright citizenship.
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Who Is Human?
Consider the conflict in eighteenth-century US and France between the Enlightenment ideal of equality and the existence of deep social inequalities like slavery.
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Who We Are, Or Could Be, in Times of Crisis
Historian and activist Rebecca Solnit writes about people’s responses to disasters and the human capacity to do good.
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