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...Harvard Social Forum has thrown an open party nearly every week at 45 Mt. Auburn St. since the Forum gained permanent access to the building this fall. The house, owned by the Foundation for Civic Leadership, a group run by college alumni with ties to progressive student groups, has also played host to SASSI-WOOFCLUBS’s meetings...
It’s time to stop letting Americans off the hook. Too often, groups that value civic participation try to sell voting like they would sell car insurance. They act as if voting is a simple transaction: a few minutes of your time for a small chunk of influence. The Institute of Politics informs students that if they don’t vote, they have no voice. But what if students don’t want a voice? Clearly the H-Vote captains who give up their meals to register voters think that voter nonparticipation...
...attending physician, was still freely dispensing vaccine. Some House and Senate members defended the practice on the grounds they meet a lot of elderly and sick people and shake a lot of hands--despite the fact that both President Bush and Senator Kerry had announced that they, as healthy, civic-minded Americans, would forgo the shots. Only after some Republicans and Democrats protested did Congress decide to vaccinate just those at high risk and donate 3,000 leftover shots to local health services in the District of Columbia...
Calvin's catechism included the familiar Ten Commandments--which, with their injunctions against theft, murder, adultery and lying, are themselves effective social organizers. Added to that were admonitions to pay taxes, perform civic duties, behave in a civil manner and submit to the authority of magistrates. "You must understand religions very thoroughly in relation to their environments," says Wilson. "And one problem for Calvin was to make his city function...
...heirs to Calvinism today--Presbyterians, many Baptists and believers in the Reformed tradition in general--see the roots of their faith as something far more divine than merely good civic management. But even some theologians seem to think that a deep belief in the laws of God can coexist with the survival demands of an evolving society. "Calvin had a reverence for the Scriptures, which then became institutionalized," says James Kay, professor of practical theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary. "The Bible is concerned about justice for the poor, equity and fairness, and all of those things were seen...