Sentences with phrase «what engaged citizens»

In this documentary - style video, learn about the history of activism and civil disobedience in the U.S., take a look at the purpose of political protests, and learn more about what engaged citizens can accomplish.

Not exact matches

So we need to engage these youth and we need to figure out how we can help them to get what they need to be productive citizens.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

We have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female, people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who can not promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization's guiding values.

She will be presenting on One Region Forward, how citizens can get engaged and involved and what the goal of the initiative in Western New York is.

During the last Community Congress, Citizens from across Erie and Niagara counties engaged in a Scenario Planning exercise to map what they want Buffalo Niagara to look like in 40 years.

Knowing that people come to the platform to talk about what they care about, we have developed a politics and government programme essentially to understand how our platform is being used, not just during elections, but also to help governments engage with their citizens and also to see what the risks related to our platform in elections are and what opportunities and programmes can be put in place to address the risks.»

«I think what we're doing more is arming our citizens with information for people that have been known to engage in terrorist - type activity, that may be out of jail and no longer incarcerated,» Gallivan said.

Each answering questions about the need for citizens be involved in their community and what inspires these activists and political leaders to be civically engaged in their community.

Ajimobi said the agricultural sector that has been neglected for long on what he described as «black gold» should be revamped to enhance food security, reduce importation of food items and engage able - bodied citizens who are presently either out rightly unemployed or under - employed.

«If one got to a situation where town and parish councils began to really engage with the public - that citizens felt part of their responsibility as a human being would be to lead their own communities - one would have the beginnings of reshaping people's sense of what politics is.

Just what the citizens need for informed and engaged debates.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

«Today you've heard researchers grapple with important developmental questions about what students - and importantly immigrant - origin students — will need to learn in order to be fully engaged, active, and critical citizens in the 21st century,» she said.

Next week I hope they learn something as valuable as the lessons they've learned in the classroom: the importance of participating in their government and what it means to be an engaged citizen.

What if we realized that only inclusive classrooms can fully support the goal of creating thoughtful, engaged citizens for our democratic society?

On view through June 25, her engaging installation encourages children to consider waste production and what it means to be a global citizen.

To tap into the collective intelligence that we have in our communities, that we have in our country and in the world so that we can begin to, as citizens, engage these topics, to be able to question, as a community, what does all this data really mean.»

This question is designed to expose the ethical duty of the United States and other high - emitting nations under international law to prevent its citizens from engaging in activities which cause climate change damages as a matter international law without regard to what other nations do.

She'll tell you herself that's what she is doing; tell her audience, too, b / c she is trying to engage them as reasoning citizens — not «hoodwink» them.

What Article 28 (3) with its omission of public policy grounds seems to suggest in my view is that — to a certain extent — the mere fact of a 10 years residence has created a link between the EU citizen and the host Member State that is similar to the link between a national and its state; as a consequence expulsion can only be a valid means if this link is deliberately destroyed by the EU citizen; this would be the case of a serious security threat, i.e. an individual determined to engage in actions that jeopardize the security of the host Member State's society at large, which could indeed be the case of organized crime.

But I'll be back, and I suggest you, too, persevere, because, if, as ReadWriteWeb opines, even the U.S. government open access data initiative data.gov has whole lot to learn from the Brits, our government desperately needs to see how those who «get it» are engaging their citizens; and our informed readers need to do what they can to cause it to get it, too.