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Category: Charity & Justice

Model UN

Nine years later, my Model U.N. idea became a reality

September 19, 2020 Lonita Benson Charity & Justice, Children, Community/Common good, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I was first introduced to Civitas through my middle school gifted program. My teacher had us participate in the Civitas Model United Nations program,

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venezuela

Venezuela’s sick economy is killing its citizens. Here’s how to help them.

September 25, 2018 Christopher Burke Charity & Justice, Health, Health care, International One comment

Two years ago, the  Guardian described how Venezuela’s devastating economic downturn was ravaging its hospitals. Since then, things have only gotten worse. Much worse.

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Income Disparity

Is it my hang-up, or society’s, that we are so tolerant of poverty?

January 16, 2018 Arthur Lieber Capitalism, Charity & Justice, Democracy, Republican Brain, Social Sec/Medicare One comment

As is self-evident, Republicans are gung-ho on cutting taxes because there is very little that government does that they truly value. The bigger the

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Better deal

Dems’ Better Deal: Courting white voters, abandoning social justice

August 14, 2017 Hafsa 2018 Election, Charity & Justice, Democrats Leave a comment

Since the harrowing, soul-crushing Democratic defeat in the 2016 elections (and ever since), liberals have been desperately wracking their beleaguered brains trying to devise

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Shower Truck

Charity: It feels so good it hurts

August 6, 2017 Arthur Lieber Activism, Charity & Justice, Civil liberties, Democracy, Homelessness, Human Rights, Poverty Leave a comment

This week we have another heart-warming story from our St. Louis Community. A man named Jake Austin runs a special service, a Shower the

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hope

Upstate New Yorkers want to Keep Hope Alive

July 23, 2017 Renee Shur Activism, Charity & Justice Leave a comment

The Keep Hope Alive Project, founded in 2016 in Hudson, New York, provides an outlet for those opposed to the divisiveness and rightward drift

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KOAT-TV

A Local TV station that knows how to cover national news

July 16, 2017 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Charity & Justice, Government, Media Leave a comment

I was recently in Albuquerque, NM and amazed at the extensive and exceptional coverage that one local TV station gave to the proposed Republican

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second-hand

Do African countries want your second-hand clothes? Yes and No

June 29, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, International One comment

In 2016, the six-nation East African Community—whose members are Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and South Sudan—agreed to a ban on imported second-hand clothes

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Great Society

A Skewed View of Washington, DC from the Heartland

April 19, 2017 Arthur Lieber Charity & Justice, Community/Common good, Federalism, Homelessness, States Leave a comment

I recently had two experiences which crystallized why I think that so many Americans, particularly younger ones, do not understand the importance of the

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Diaper Banks: How Congressional disdain for poor people makes them necessary

September 19, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Charity & Justice, Children, Health Leave a comment

I’m sad to report that it’s Diaper Need Awareness Week here in St. Louis, and across the country–a program promoted by the National Diaper

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