Local Civics

Local Civics is reimagining civics education for middle and high school students everywhere.

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Our @local_civics team is excited to connect with educators at NYSCSS in Albany. Come say hello in person today and tomorrow! #civics #socialstudies

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Getting Students Excited About Their Communities | How I Built This with Guy Raz | NPR

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[Jerome Foster II @JeromeFosterII]

We need Climate Change Education to be taught in our schools.

My Generation should not have grown up learning about a 70-year-old planetary crisis by becoming witness to flooded homes, toxic air pollution, and devastating climate disasters.

[Saad Amer @itsSaadAmer]

.@xiyebastida using her space at the Global Climate Summit to highlight underrepresented BIPOC communities, the global south and youth is the most authentic thing I've ever seen.

[When We All Vote @WhenWeAllVote]

BREAKING #DCStatehood News ⭐️

The House has officially passed #HR51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act.

This is a monumental moment in the fight to make Washington, D.C. our 51st state.

[Rock the Vote @RockTheVote]

The guilty verdict today in the Derek Chauvin trial is what our communities have been demanding - an acknowledgment in the criminal legal system that Chauvin’s actions were against the law.

But let's be clear - this one verdict isn't enough. #DerekChauvinTrial

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BREAKING: The New York State Assembly just passed S.830B, which would automatically restore voting rights for all New Yorkers upon release from prison. The legislature must now send it to the Governor for his signature.

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Women’s History Month may be coming to an end, but just as inspiring women fight for what they believe in and make a difference in their communities every month, we aim to recognize, uplift, and celebrate women all year long.

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“We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we’ve seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes,” said @SenatorWarnock. https://t.co/Xge4MiYCAq

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She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court case United States v. Widnsor which overturned a key section of the anti-LGBTQ Defense of Marriage Act. Windsor also helped to found Old Queers Acting Up, an improv group utilizing skits to address social justice issues.

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Edie Windsor was a LGBTQ rights activist. Throughout the 1970s she participated in many LGBTQ marches and volunteered at organizations such as Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, the East End Gay Organization, and the LGBT Community Center.

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camps and acted as a messenger and interpreter between her people and US forces. She also served as a teacher for imprisoned Native Americans and wrote an extensive autobiography and ethnohistorical text about her life and her tribe.

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Sarah Winnemucca was an indigenous author, activist, and educator. Alive during the 19th century, Winnemuca fought for the rights of Native Americans as european settlements expanded west. She lobbied congress for the release of her tribe, the Paiute, from post-war concentration

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Huerta is the recipient of numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers, immigrants, and women, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist. She is the co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association which later became the United Farm Workers.

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She helped to organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 and was the lead negotiator in the workers’ contract that was created after the strike.

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WHDC's ARISE! program is ON for Summer 2021! This hybrid (virtual & in-person) experience over 6 wks is for @CB9Manhattan teens (14-18 y/o). Apply at https://t.co/3u7uM4fDEe by April 24th.

Collaborators: @local_civics, @nymacs_nyma4me, @thehort, @RiversideParkNY, @RiversideHawks

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She points to social media as a particularly significant force when it comes to activism and movement-building “because it allows people to connect even when they can’t be together in real life.”

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Brianna is an organizer from St. Louis Missouri. Involved in the Black Lives Matter movement since high school, Brianna currently organizes around issues such as Black and indigenous liberation, climate justice, and prison abolition.

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Boggs also dedicated her career to the fight for civil rights for Black Americans and founded Detroit Summer--a multicultural intergenerational youth program.

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Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, activist, philosopher, and feminist. She was one of the key figures in the Asian American movement for racial justice, anti-imperialism, and pan-Asianism.