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• SAALT Consultancy/Internship Positions Available

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 137
  Consultancy/Internship Positions Available (Apply by January 15, 2010) South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), a national non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the full and equal participation of South Asians in the civic and political life of the United States through policy advocacy, community ...
  2 days ago

• LA Daily Publishes APA Leader

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 137
  A breakthough for Instant Runoff Voting (IRV)!  This morning, the Los Angeles Daily News published an opinion piece on IRV written by AAA-Fund Executive Director Gautam Dutta: End L.A.’s Losing Streak, With Instant Runoff Voting When it comes to elections, Angelenos are mired in a vicious losing streak. ...
  2 days ago

• Latinos pledge opposition to proposed voter ID law – California

  
  HispanicTips — Authority: 162
  Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information
  3 days ago

• Application Process for New ReDistricting Commission

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 137
  Asian Pacific American Legal Center PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 14, 2009 CONTACT: Eugene Lee, 213-241-0212 Deanna Kitamura, 213-241-0232 APPLICATION PROCESS FOR NEW REDISTRICTING COMMISSION OPEN FROM DECEMBER 15, 2009 TO FEBRUARY 12, 2010 Asian American and Pacific Islander applicants needed ...
  3 days ago

• Never one to wait for change, Manuel Benavidez ready to take on Irving school district in voting rights case – Texas

  
  HispanicTips — Authority: 162
  Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information
  4 days ago

• Sex, Lies & Audiotape

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 137
  Sex, Lies, and Audiotape:  Why We Need Instant Runoff Voting   When a lawmaker brags about his sexual exploits, taxpayers beware:  it might end up costing us millions of tax dollars. The trouble began last summer, when then-Assemblymember Mike Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) boasted about his extramarital affairs to a ...
  4 days ago

• Governor Kaine: Do the Right Thing

  
  Coarse Cracked Corn — Authority: 117
  The clock is ticking for Governor Tim Kaine to do the right thing - restore voting rights for to thousands, no make that hundreds of thousands , of individuals who were disenfranchised for a felony conviction, but they have done their time and are now tax paying and responsible citizens. As stated in a prior post ...
  6 days ago

• Overcrowded Prisons in California

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 437
  Damaged for life and very hard pressed are the people who have paid their debt to society. They unfortunately get the verdict that keeps on punishing. They are also very unlikely to get married,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• More Singing For Democracy Pictures

  
  KFTC Blog — Authority: 123
        Here are a few more pictures of our Singing For Democracy Gospel Fest last week, focusing on restoring voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society.  Thanks again for everyone who made it possible.          
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• APIAVote Welcomes Leverett Wing as New Executive Director

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 137
  Ed. Note: From our nonpartisan friends at APIA Vote . APIAVote Welcomes Leverett Wing as New Executive Director Contact: Naomi Tacuyan Underwood // naomi@apiavote.org // 202-223-9170 WASHINGTON, D.C. – APIAVote is proud to welcome Leverett Wing as our new executive director. Hailing from Boston, Leverett has a ...
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• Central Valley taxpayers shell out

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 630
  Civil rights suits are causing a stir in California local government: “The downsides weigh heavily in landmark lawsuits against Modesto and Stanislaus County, which have cost taxpayers $8.3 million and counting, and have not produced more minority office holders or new sidewalks or better storm drains.” [ Modesto ...
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• Testimony on Military Voting Rights to the RNC

  
  The Next Right — Authority: 546
  (we would like to thank Ed Fitzmaurice for posting his testimony from todays meeting to the RNCs Temporary Delegate Selection Committee) Jessie Jane Duff, and Roman Buhler and I gave this testimony today to the RNCs Temporary Delegate Selection Committee.    We wish to convey our thanks to the Committee ...
  1 week ago

• More on felon disenfranchisement

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 671
  In the thread to the post below, Scott P. suggests denying felons the right to vote is consistent with social contract theory. I think thats probably true for some but not all versions of social contract theory, but not a particularly helpful observation. Another commenter, Thomas, suggests "One who has wronged ...
  1 week ago

• Christians sue for the right to be bigots

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Christian bigots ask Supreme Court for support.
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• Next British Election May Not Comply With EU Human Rights Law

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 671
  and neither because the Tories may win, nor because the election may result in a hung parliament. Rather, the EU is upset that the UK has been delaying the enactment of a 2005 European Court of Human Rights judgment that it is inconsistent with human rights law to disenfranchise convicted prisoners. Come ...
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• Virginia Foxx and the GOP Civil Rights Champions of Yore

  
  Past in Print Weblog — Authority: 115
  Today, she’d know them as RINOs ( Cross-posted at Care2.com – Originally published 20 November 2009 ) “They love to engage in revisionist history,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said on the floor of the U.S. Congress, Nov. 19.  She was referring to Democrats as she had risen to speak in opposition to an ...
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• Harry Reid Invokes Slavery To Attack Republicans: The Real Story

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 472
  Another day, another profoundly dishonest and immoral Democrat lie. The Democrat Senate Majority Leader had this to say about the Democrats’ health care agenda and its relationship with wanting to own slaves: “All Republicans can come up with is this: Slow down, stop everything and start over. If you think ...
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• Hard data about politicization of the DOJ under Bush

  
  Voting Matters Blog — Authority: 103
  There was  no  mention of the GOP’s favorite boogeymen, ACORN and the Black Panthers in a recently released report on the Bush Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.  Instead, the report focused on the Bush administration’s disinclination to actively pursue the recommendations of career DOJ  attorneys.  Take a ...
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• Potential Voting Rights — Impact on Consolidated Financial Statements

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 455
  Consolidated Financial Statements shall be prepared by an entity if it has control over another entity. ‘Control’ under IFRS, being power to govern the financial and operating policies, covers within its purview even those entities that have been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
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• Singing For Democracy a Hit!

  
  KFTC Blog — Authority: 123
  On Wednesday, an incredible 400-500 people from across the state gathered at Imani Baptist Church on the north end of Lexington for our first Singing For Democracy Gospel Fest to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society. We recruited about 40 new KFTC members and brought in $500 in ...
  1 week ago

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