This Saturday, be an active citizen!

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Mayor Tishaura Jones speaking at Greg Freeman Park!
This Saturday, April 30!

A chance to 'rise': St. Louis elects 1st Black female mayor

Civitas intern, Vera Rosenblum has planned an exciting event for area high school students this Saturday, April 30 to promote Active Citizenship with guest speaker, St. Louis City Mayor Tishaura Jones. The event will be held at Greg Freeman Park and will begin at 11:00 am and end by 1:00 pm.

Click here to reserve your spot for Saturday!

Greg Freeman Park is at 6003 Kingsbury Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63112:

Questions? Contact Vera Rosenblum, who is leading the plans: verarosenblum@gmail.com

The Greg Freeman Park stage where Mayor Jones will speak.

2 Middle School Model UN General Assemblies this week!

This week we have 2 action packed General Assemblies! On Thursday, April 28, we have delegates from Grand Center Arts Academy and Visitation Academy coming together to talk about food security, water access, pollution and more. On Friday, April 29th, we have students from Crossroads College Prep and John Burroughs talking about Ukraine, education, nutrition, and other timely topics. To see photos and resolutions from all General Assemblies, click here.

If you have a Middle School Model UN question, feel free to contact Bobbi Kennedy at bobbidkennedy@gmail.com.

Looking for More Additions to the Student Blog!

We love sharing ideas from our high school and middle school participants on our Student Blog. It's a special corner of our website dedicated to film reviews, opinion pieces, coverage of guest speakers, poems, and anything else a student wishes to write about. Pieces can be short or long and on all sorts of topics. If you have something you want to share (even a few words about your experience at a Model UN session!) email Stephanie Gavin at gavinstephanie89@gmail.com. And don't forget to check out the student blog by clicking here!

Calendar

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Thursday, April 29
Middle School Model UN General Assembly
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Friday, April 28
Middle School Model UN General Assembly
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Saturday, April 30, 2022, 11:00 am at Greg Freeman Park
Youth Activism in Government Event with Mayor Tishaura Jones
Sign up here.
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Picture of the Week

Michelle Michaels and Robert Fenstermacher fish in Sandy Point, Maryland, as the Ever Forward container ship approaches the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Sunday, April 17. The ship was freed that day after it had been stuck in the bay for a month. Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun/AP

This past week at the United Nations