I teach seventh grade civics to adults because
our schools won't do it.
It's not your boring high school civics class.
Pat uses current events and the U.S. Constitution to explain what's happening, and why.
With these tools, you can better understand current events,
be an informed voter, and influence your government officials.
You can help make the world be what you want it to be.
America will work for you
when you know how to make it work.
American politics are in turmoil because most Americans don't understand how their government works.
Those who understand how government
works know how to influence it.
Through Community Matters, I use the U.S. Constitution and current events to teach American government – civics.
I don't report the news. I explain it.
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Patricia A. O'Malley
Social Policy & Programs Consulting ~ Community Matters
412-310-4886 ~ info@patomalley-consulting.com
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Established 1993
Civics is
the study
of the structure and function
of government,
and the rights and duties
of citizens.
- It looks at the ways that our governments are organized, how they're supposed to work, and how they really do work.
- Civics is an essential, but neglected, area of our education.
- The government operates by a set of rules.
- We have the right and responsibility to participate in our government.
- However, we can't participate fully if we don't know those rules.
I've been writing Community Matters since 2008.
Here are my most recent articles.
AND COUNTING?
Read the Declaration of Independence. Yes, you. Yes, now.
On Saturday, Americans will celebrate our 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with picnics, parades, and fireworks. Meanwhile, the United States government is a shambles thanks to a flagrant crybaby narcissist who blatantly violates US and international law.
International Law
Yes, MAGA, it’s real.
Republican MAGAts claim that Donald Trump’s global relations powers are unlimited because international law doesn’t exist. As usual, they’re wrong. The United States Constitution refers to it four times. Most of them know they’re lying. The rest are just stupid lemmings.
The Whole World Is Watching
Say It Again.
Donald Trump’s unqualified loser ICE agents drag US citizens and legal resident immigrants into the streets. They beat them and ship them to prisons in foreign countries without the due process that our constitution guarantees, just to entertain themselves. Some have died.
AND THEY BRAG ABOUT IT.
Political Ignorance Breeds Political Impotence.
Patricia A. O'Malley
Social Policy & Programs Consulting
Training and Services for agencies working toward social and economic justice
FEATURED ARTICLE
How to Fix America’s Police
Abolish the blue supremacy cult.
Conscious Americans of conscience struggle to break the malicious forces that occupy our cities and subjugate our citizens. We battle at the dinner table, on the streets, in the media, and in our legislatures. Meanwhile, Americans who have sworn to uphold the Constitution violently assault and kidnap civilians who exercise their first amendment rights. America has reached its Rosa Parks moment.
http://www.patomalley-consulting.com/how-to-fix-america-s-police.html