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  • 'Generation Now'—What People Do, When There Seems to Be Nothing to Do

    April 28, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, San Bernardino, California

    San Bernardino's Generation Now, a diverse group of young adults, is injecting their city with a boost of civic action through organizing local people at forums and increasing voter turnout at the polls. From rehabilitating local parks and gardens to holding open dialogues on San Bernardino's greatest challenges, the group is changing the civic landscape of an economically depressed city.

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  • Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    April 10, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.

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  • Oklahoma schools district offers insight as EPISD, YISD consider shutting schools

    March 21, 2015 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Tulsa Public Schools drew on expertise across many sectors and extensive neighborhood input to address the issue of thousands of empty seats in local schools. Through a community-focused process, they were able to mindfully close under-utilized schools and better maximize the community's resources for students.

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  • Estonia redefines national security in a digital age

    March 20, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Estonia, Tallinn

    Estonia is preparing to protect itself digitally from any neighbouring enemies. To do so it is trying to create 'data embassies', that would have the same protections as physical embassies, in order to protect the digital continuity of the people

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  • Fresno's Tiniest Citizens: An Elementary School Of and For the Urban Community

    March 16, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    Located in downtown Fresno, Kepler Neighborhood School is raising the city's next generation of informed citizens. Through a service learning model, students regularly engage with local businesses and leaders and complete projects related to the history and revitalization of their city.

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  • How Would Students Spend the Principal's Money?

    March 11, 2015 |

    Zócalo Public Square |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    When Bioscience High School put students in charge of a portion of its discretionary budget, nearly the entire student body participated in deciding how to spend the money. The experiment in participatory democracy unfolded so well that the school principal agreed to fund all three of the most popular project proposals, even though the sum slightly exceeded the originally allotted budget.

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  • Make School a Democracy

    February 28, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Armenia

    In Colombia, students in classrooms make decisions democratically. The result has been higher rates of student involvement and achievement.

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  • New San Diego-Tijuana Survey Holds Mirror Up to Border Cities

    February 26, 2015 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Former Bogotá mayor Antonas Mockus has implemented his Citizenship Culture Survey, which measures local public opinions on legal culture, behavior regulation systems, mobility, tolerance, tax culture, public safety, agreements, civic participation, mutual regulation, public trust and victimization, across San Diego and Tijuana. The first ever binational survey of its kind aimed to measure shared social values to inform a cross-border civic council.

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  • How to Topple a Dictator (Peacefully)

    February 13, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Serbia, Belgrade

    The Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies provides a "blueprint" for peaceful and democratic revolution, busting myths about the process of nonviolent revolt and helping dissidents in countries around the world to accomplish political goals, such as fighting corruption or protecting the environment.

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  • It Takes a Village

    February 11, 2015 |

    Sustainability Pioneers |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Balcombe

    Two towns are fighting back against fossil fuel companies. From fossil free energy fairs in Pennsylvania to a solar energy co-op in the UK, citizens are relying on the idea of community power to unite in favor of renewable energy. In the UK, the creative financing structure of the co-operative REPOWERBalcombe will generate both financial and environmental returns.

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