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Issue 26 - DEMOCRACY IN ACTION - Table of Contents

This issue includes many extras!

Editorial

How do you Participate? - PDF

- Three Types of Civic Participation

- First, You Have to Believe in Yourself

- Do You Vote? What Are Your Responsibilities?

- Defend Your Opinions

- From Workplace Justice to Political Mobilization

- Taking Action on an Issue that Matters

- Reading as a Path to Voting

- Fall Election Wind

- Choosing to Participate

No One Will Solve Our Problems - PDF

- No One will Solve our Problems for Us

- Grassroots Advocacy: Using Strength in Numbers

- Custody Battle

- Justice of My Own

- Educating for Change in St. Louis

- Let’s Get out the Adult Education Vote!

The Politics and History of Voting - PDF

- History of Voting

-What if the Government Said You Couldn’t Vote?

- What Were They Thinking?

- Why We Should Lower the Voting Age

- Is Voting a Right for Every Citizen?

- Felons’ Right to Vote

- Voting: My Obligation to Past, Present, and Future

- Should Non-Citizens Vote?

- This is “The Land of the Free”

- “I Find it Difficult to Believe Politicians”

- Election Reform

- Nat’l Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections

- Americans Distrust the Government

Money and Politics - PDF

- Which System Do You Want?

- Clean Elections

- Pocketbook Politics

- Wealth Primary

- Politicians and the Wealthy

Candidates, Parties, and Voting - PDF

- One Number Can Count

- Vote: What Difference Does it Make?

- Politicalese: Spotting Election Campaign Tactics

- Sick and Tired of Campaign Promises

- “Read My Lips: No New Taxes”

- Using the Media to Analyze Political News

- U.S. Political Parties: Where do they Stand...?

- Understanding the Electoral College

- What If You Can’t Vote?

- Pick Your Candidate

- Finding A Way to Register New Voters

- Referendums: A Form of Direct Democracy

- What is a Caucus?

What is Democracy - PDF

- Democracy Requires Action, Organization, and Risk

- Beyond How-To Civics Education for Adult Learners

- Understanding Our Values: A Lesson Plan

- Difference between Capitalism and Democracy

- A Simulated Town Meeting

- Community: A Path toward Participation

- We Need a Massive Movement for Adult Educatio

- How Do Americans Feel About U.S. Institutions?

- On Getting Along

- We Need a Revolution

 

Resources

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