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...letter objects to the “apparently docile political behavior of the undergraduate student body” despite controversies over the preservation of civil liberties and the war in Iraq. It contends that the University is not fostering an environment conducive to “civic courage and political engagement...
...aims to hold politicians' feet to the fire and convince citizens to do the same: protesting against missing traffic lights at a busy intersection, investigating candidates for conflicts of interest, running a get-out-the-vote drive. "It's not only about the idea of democracy, but also of civic responsibility, about educating the people about the role they play in a democracy," says Dani. While I was there, INPO announced the names of nine Ferizaj city council members whom it accused of conflicts of interest or corruption, such as spouses applying for public contracts. It was the lead story...
...After World War II, the comic book genre became an unlikely vehicle for civic protest and consolidation of memory. "The hour of immigrant assimilation gave way to the fight for minorities and civil rights," explains Pasamonik. Harvey Kurtzman used the medium to tackle racial segregation, the Cold War and McCarthyism in his satirical MAD magazine. In 1955, when popular awareness of the Holocaust was scant, Bernard Krigstein and Al Feldstein caused a shock by revisiting the concentration camps with the seminal graphic story Master Race. During the '60s and '70s the genre opened up to the banal and biographical, with...
...keep his old job--and last year alone his organization says the program touched 3 million lives. "So many people think if they don't have an enormous sum of money to leave to a philanthropic group, they can't leave an important legacy," says Marc Freedman, CEO of Civic Ventures, a nonprofit that promotes active aging. "But the way we use our experience--something we all have--may be a more enduring gift to future generations than money." Civic Ventures is recognizing Maxworthy this month with a Purpose Prize grant...
Halloween rioting plagued the ritual from 2002 to 2005, replete with tear gas-saturated finales. City officials last year finally decided to fence off State Street and charge admission fees, limiting attendance to 80,000. This year, Madison is tapping into corporate America in the hopes of turning a civic black eye into something its Visitors and Conventions Bureau can boast about...