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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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
Patricia A. O'Malley
Social Policy & Programs Consulting ~ Community Matters
412-310-4886 ~ info@patomalley-consulting.com
Copyright Patricia A. O'Malley ~ All rights reserved
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.
Donald Trump has violated it.
On June 21, Donald Trump sent crewed American aircraft into Iranian airspace to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities because his birthday parade flopped and he’s a whiny crybaby.
Now we continue our national debate about his fitness for the job and authority to issue that order.
http://www.patomalley-consulting.com/the-u.s.-war-powers-act.html
#USA. It’s Up to Us
The whole world is watching.
While our federal government employees ardently violate public civil rights, millions of Americans protest evil where it lives – all over America. Activists stumble around, resisting as best they can, without plan or direction, while Kristy Noem’s ICE assaults and murders innocent people in our streets.
Donald Trump’s idiocy and arrogance have awakened America’s resistance spirit. Millions of people don't know what to do with their anger and resentment.
Perhaps this will help.
American Birthright Citizenship
What it means and what to do now.
The US Supreme Court protected the constitutional concept of birthright citizenship in its decision, published July 1. It generally means that if you’re born in the United States, you are automatically an American citizen, regardless of your heritage or your parents’ status.
Political Ignorance Breeds Political Impotence.
Patricia A. O'Malley
Social Policy & Programs Consulting
Training and Services for agencies working toward social and economic justice