"Make love, not war" is one amendment I wouldn't mind seeing written into the United States Constitution, and into every other civic document across the world.
References to these scenes show up everywhere, from books about politics to civic-planning documents like "L.A. 2000," a look at the future commissioned by Tom Bradley, when he was mayor of the city in the 1980's.
"I feel like it's my civic duty to document my community," said Ms. Silliman, who expected the archive to be accessible online next year.
Benchmarks: Knows beliefs that are common to American political culture; Knows how shared ideas and values of American political culture are reflected in various sources and documents Civics Standard 18- Understands the role and importance of law in the American constitutional system and issues regarding the judicial protection of individual rights.
The civic group is seeking documents on the L.I.R.R.'s use of the Hicksville yard from January 1965 through December 1997 in an effort to rebuff the railroad's contention that the yard is not being reopened but rather has never been closed.
Reading those lines on paper barely hints at the force of those stanzas as King usually spoke them: a defiant assertion of a black right to belong that rested on something more primal than, and prior to, the nation's official documents and civic heroes.
Civic groups say they documented widespread harassment and intimidation by Zanu-PF of members of Mr. Tsvangirai's party around recent hearings on a new Constitution that is supposed to bring free elections.
And though the city's monumental examples of the beaux arts and art deco movements are well documented in civic buildings dressed up in a mixed bag of Classical Roman and Greek elements, the city actually received its greatest modern architectural contribution in the years after WWII, when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pioneered the new "International Style".
His support of civic organizations was also well documented.
Ms. Mukoko led a civic group that monitored and documented those sorts of abuses.
