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VoteThatJawn
- Mar 23, 2020
- 4 min
CAN VOTE-BY-MAIL SAVE THE ELECTION?
The coronavirus is likely to upend the April 28 primary. That's why Philly 3.0’s engagement director doubles down on his call for mail-in vo
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VoteThatJawn
- Mar 13, 2020
- 3 min
PROTECT THE VOTE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
With the April 28 primary approaching in the midst of calls for social isolation, Philly 3.0’s engagement director urges the state to send e
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VoteThatJawn
- Mar 11, 2020
- 5 min
THE CITIZEN RECOMMENDS: MAP THE VOTE
At least 40,000 eligible Philadelphians are not even registered to vote. You can help change that with a new app
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Sonali Deliwala
- Feb 5, 2019
- 4 min
Anger Is Not Productive: Especially when Confronting Social Injustice
As an aspiring activist, I have always wondered about how I should react to social injustice. At marches, you’re supposed to be indignant...
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VoteThatJawn
- Feb 5, 2019
- 2 min
Records? We Broke Them! How Vote That Jawn Rocked the Vote in Philly
In September, SafeKidsStories joined the historic national movement to mobilize young voters and get them to the polls. We launched Vote...
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Samira Mehta
- Feb 5, 2019
- 5 min
From a Classroom in Texas to #VoteThatJawn
The sound of steadily beating drums and the flowing notes of the piano invite me into the Mayor’s Reception Room in City Hall. A mahogany...
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Sonali Deliwala
- Feb 5, 2019
- 4 min
Where Experience is the Teacher, Reality the Exam: The Class That Combines My Passion with Education
I watch as my physics professor draws a careful diagram of a block resting on a table, chalk smudging as he redraws force vectors to...
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Hannah Yusuf
- Feb 5, 2019
- 5 min
Are We Entering into an Ideal Future? Vote that Jawn and Voter Participation
As you walk onto the Mayor’s Reception Room, you are immediately surrounded by history. A statue honoring Amerigo Vespucci and the seal...
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Joyce Xu
- Feb 5, 2019
- 3 min
Strong Math Foundations Built on a Shaky Kitchen Table
When I was in kindergarten, my mom would sit me down at our dinky kitchen table and teach me how to do long addition on the back of bill...
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James Meadows
- Feb 5, 2019
- 3 min
Riding Shotgun: A Non-Citizen Finds His Identity as an American
I once was told by a fellow immigrant that living in America is like being in a car going on a never-ending road trip — the citizens are...
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Serena Christine Martinez
- Feb 5, 2019
- 5 min
Type A Chaos
I was one of the first students to arrive at WHYY, where the Vote That Jawn event would soon begin and was welcomed in by a kind old...
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Erinda Sheno
- Feb 5, 2019
- 3 min
America’s Choosing Day: Voting to Renew Our Democracy
I am walking out of 15th street station by Centre Square in Philadelphia, and a woman coming up beside me remarks on her phone, “Oh, my...
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Joyce Xu
- Feb 5, 2019
- 5 min
Confessions of an Average Citizen
I’m an average citizen — not someone who keeps up regularly with current events, tweets about politicians, or fully understands the US...
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Anna Duan
- Feb 5, 2019
- 5 min
Entering the Palace
“Behind the ever open gate No pikes shall fence a crumbling throne, No lackeys cringe, no courtiers wait, — This palace is the people’s...
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Elena Tomlinson
- Feb 5, 2019
- 3 min
A Semester of Improvisation
As we waited in the Mayor’s Reception Room for our guests to arrive for the #VoteThatJawn celebration, Philadelphia’s Clef Club Junior...
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Neyat Yohannes
- Oct 28, 2018
- 4 min
Animate the Vote: A Young Philly Artist, Now in L.A., Tells How She Got Into Animation and Where She
Rachel Headlam, the 18-year-old Philly character animator and I meet at a bustling juice shop. “I’m wearing a white pinstriped shirt, a...
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Hannah Yusuf
- Oct 28, 2018
- 3 min
Your Vote Is Bigger than You: What Vote that Jawn Means to Me
“The quality of the dining hall food just doesn’t match the tuition fee I’m paying,” someone just complained to me. I nodded earnestly,...
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Hannah Yusuf
- Oct 28, 2018
- 4 min
When Young People Don’t Vote, It Matters: How the Leaders we Choose Change the Stories we Tell
I can recall the first time my parents saw Barack Obama on TV as if it happened yesterday. I was in first grade. My parents were talking...
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VoteThatJawn
- Oct 23, 2018
- 1 min
Register to Vote with #VoteThatJawn: There’s More Than One Way to Register in PA
Are you one of the 20,000 Philadelphia youth turning 18 before the 2018 election? Watch the video to find out about all the ways you can...
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Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
- Oct 23, 2018
- 9 min
My First Vote: Residents of the Cathedral Village Retirement Community Share Stories About Their “Fi
It’s a hot time in the old folks home these days. Elections are coming up in November and these guys are psyched. I recently asked a...
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Cesar Eleazar
- Oct 23, 2018
- 2 min
A Modest Proposal: How You Can Save the Planet by Riding a Bike
What I am about to share could save the earth from pollution. People should stop driving cars and ride bikes. Every day a lot of people...
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Samira Mehta
- Oct 23, 2018
- 3 min
Just Act, Go Vote: A People’s Jam on Justice!
During the 2016 presidential election, when I was just five months shy of being old enough to earn my voice in American politics, I...
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Erinda Sheno
- Oct 23, 2018
- 3 min
When Philly Gives its Best, it’s the Place to Be: A Whole Jawn that Works Together
I was wandering up and down North 6th street, feeling foolish that the whole train ride here I had been envisioning a block party. That...
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