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May 4, 20203 min read
Calm About It: Women Exercised their Voting Rights Before the 19th Amendment
By Tanner Probst Women may have won the right to vote in 1920, but some voted decades before it was legal. The women’s suffrage movement...
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VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20201 min read
Interactive Constitution Project
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for...
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VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20202 min read
We the People Learn to Interpret the Constitution
By Tanner Probst "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic...
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VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20203 min read
I Will Vote
By Blake Kiernan “The only thing that matters more than our health and safety is the freedom to choose how we are governed.” The above...
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VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20203 min read
Voting History: The 15th Amendment
By Tanner Probst “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 18, 20201 min read
Why Music on a Youth Voting Site?
Because music is a gateway to the things that matter to you. What matters to us is what motivates us to vote. Hill-Freeman Music Director...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 18, 20205 min read
#VOTETHATJAWN 2020
Think, for a moment, about the fanfare that comes with life’s milestones: marriage, birth, quinceañera, driving, graduation… and so on.
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 18, 20203 min read
There Is No Planet B
Earth is the only known habitable planet. A gassy envelope mostly of oxygen and nitrogen extends 300 miles above our surface.
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 14, 20204 min read
Water, Climate Crisis, and Future of Philadelphia
By Swati Hegde, Ph.D. The Water Center, University of Pennsylvania A clean and safe water supply along with effectively managed...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 14, 20203 min read
Vote for Climate Justice!
By Samira Mehta Long, slimy, black bugs,—dozens—swam across the water’s surface in a white, plastic bucket. A woman bent over it and...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 14, 20203 min read
The Pandemic Can’t Stop Us: Youth Vote Initiatives Go Virtual
By Sophie Burkholder The way we vote is about to be turned upside down. Fears of the coronavirus pandemic have prompted fears of...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 5, 20205 min read
A Talk, a Book, then a Movie Becomes a Movement to Bend the Moral Arc of Justice
“Just Mercy” tells the story of Bryan Stevenson, a criminal justice lawyer who moves to Alabama to represent wrongly convicted...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 3, 20202 min read
At Music, I Suck … or Used To
By Giovanna Cicalese When I was younger, I listened to all kinds of music on the radio, mostly guided by my dad, a drummer. I played...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 3, 20201 min read
The Escobar Brothers Podcast
By Lorene Cary Special thanks to the Escobar family: three talented young musicians who live with their parents in suburban Philadelphia....
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 3, 20202 min read
You Don’t Always Get What You Want, But . . .
By Lorene Cary I wanted to play trumpet. Blow blow hard! A kid who had asthma, whose breathing sometimes felt like sucking air through a...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 2, 20201 min read
My Place, All Over the Place
By Jada Orr When I was younger I had a lot of unorthodox idols in the music industry. I enjoyed singers with dark and gritty sounds and...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Finding the Right Chord
By Shamaur Williams THEN When I was younger I was hidden within myself. Locked away in my head, because I never kept a steady home,...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 2, 20201 min read
The Song is About Life
By Umu Diallo As a child I wanted to do everything. At first it was writing, then singing, then playing an instrument and so on. You...
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VoteThatJawn
Apr 2, 20201 min read
This Is It! Perfection.
By Jamison Cooper THEN The strings seem flat, silver, light. No formal connection to pitch. Just noise. Noise that makes pretty and ugly...
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VoteThatJawn
Mar 22, 20204 min read
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 12, 20203 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20194 min read
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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