Extraordinary speaker addresses high school students

Happy Blog Action Day!

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

Today is Blog Action Day 2008, and this year's theme is POVERTY. CThings is joining thousands of other sites to help raise awareness and inspire a global conversation on poverty. Join the movement by educating yourself, talking with the people around you, and writing about poverty or Blog Action Day on your own blog. What if everyone did that one thing today? What would be possible?

Accept the Challenge!

Oct. 6-12 you can join your peers from around the country for a concentrated week of special events and community outreach activities designed to raise awareness and build support for service learning in the National Learn and Serve Challenge. The org's ambitious and admirable goals for 2010 include engaging 5 million college students in service and ensuring that 50 percent of America's K-12 schools incorporate service-learning into their curricula. Check out the site's Activity Ideas page for a long list of activities that educators, students, families, and community groups can do to get involved. You can also make a short video about what you're doing to share with the world on YouTube, and watch other videos for inspiration.

Quote of the Week

"If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."

- Indigenous Saying

CThings is now on Twitter

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Click here to follow CThings.

National Parking Week

This week is National Parking Week, which launched on Friday with the annual PARK(ing) Day -- a one-day global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks or "PARK(ing)" spaces. Check out the video above or the website at PARK(ing) Day 2008.

Rock the Vote!

Take 2 minutes to register for this important election by clicking on the Rock The Vote box above. Easy, right? Now what happens if Election Day arrives and you're on vacation, sick in bed, can't get away from work, or have to deal with an emergency? To ensure your voice is heard, plan ahead by registering to vote absentee below.