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• DC Vote Hosts Screening of "Un-Natural State"

  
  D.C. Wire — Authority: 135
  DC Vote, the nonprofit group pushing for voting representation in Congress for the Districts 600,000 residents, will host a screening of the feature-length documentary, "Un-Natural State," on Wednesday. The screening will begin at 8 p.m. at the Avalon Theater in Friendship Heights and will include a discussion with ...
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• Remember what you’ve got

  
  On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah — Authority: 131
  This story from Maryland caught my eye, because it relates to something I’ve been pointing out to young people (read: high schoolers) for a while. From WTOP : Carl Snyder, like many young people, registered to vote when he got his first driver’s license. With an October birthday, the Tuscarora High School ...
  1 day ago

• Hillary’s Debacle as Honduran Democracy is Served Up

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 463
  One issue that has been of recent concern on this blog is the coup and pending elections in Honduras tomorrow. It has been five months since the de facto rulers of Honduras have ousted the democratically elected Mel Zelaya with the military, illegally exiling him instead of him being charged through a court of ...
  3 days ago

• Seeking the right to vote automatically - Herald-Leader

  
  KFTC Blog — Authority: 122
  Merline Davis wrote a good article that will appear in tomorrows Herald-Leader supporting voting rights for former felons who have served their time and inviting people to our Singing For Democracy Gospel Fest on Wednesday.  After spending three years in prison and another seven years on parole, René D. Riley of ...
  3 days ago

• Singing For Democracy - Gospel Fest Wednesday

  
  KFTC Blog — Authority: 122
  Gospel Fest to Restore Voting Rights to Former Felons who have served their debt to society. Wednesday, December 2nd at 6:30pm Imani Baptist Church (1555 Georgetown Rd, Lexington) Featuring great church choirs, soloists, and hip-hop talents from all over Lexington and the rest of the state.   Free! – But ...
  4 days ago

• Holloway on Disenfranchisement for Larceny in the Redeemer South

  
  Legal History Blog — Authority: 479
  Pippa Holloway, Middle Tennessee State University has posted "A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote": Disfranchisement for Larceny in the South, 1874-1890, which appeared in the Journal of Southern History 75 (November 2009): 931-962. Here is the abstract:Between 1874 and 1882 all southern states (except Texas) ...
  4 days ago

• Shadowy GOP-Linked Group Plans Barrage Of 2010 Robo-Calls

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 769
  A shadowy conservative group with ties to the operatives behind a host of GOP dirty tricks is working to undermine state restrictions on political robo-calls, as it gears up to unleash a barrage of such calls in 2010 races. Last month, American Future Fund Political Action (AFFPA) informed the FEC that its planning ...
  1 week ago

• Congress Suddenly Interested in Respecting DCs Voters?

  
  Scott's Take — Authority: 124
  HT: Joe My God. DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and Council Chair Vincent Gray were called on the carpet by Congress for not allowing the majority of District residents to vote on the civil rights of a minority. Lets listen in: At a hearing on proposed changes to the citys Home Rule Act, two Republicans on the ...
  1 week ago

• Charron Discusses the Life of Septima Clark on the State of Things today

  
  UNC Press Blog — Authority: 113
  In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In Freedom’s ...
  1 week ago

• Human Rights Maps (71): Voting Rights for Felons in the U.S.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 432
  ( source , click on the image to enlarge) Taking away someone’s human rights can only be done for a good reason, for example if this is necessary in order to protect other people’s rights . So we can imprison people and take away their freedom of movement if there is no other way to protect the security and ...
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• Woman Jailed For Voting; Trains Finally Run on Time

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 131
  The Criminal Susan B Anthony! On This Date in History: The presidential election of 1872 was rather odd and somewhat brutal. It was between President Ulysses S. Grant and New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. The first term of Grant had been clouded by some questionable moves and charges of ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wrote”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 607
  By reader acclaim, this report from AP’s Michael Blood in Los Angeles : Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices – and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far – can be traced to just two people: a pair of attorneys who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Final Brief In Maui Councilmember Residency Appeal: What Is "Immediate Forfeiture And Vacancy?"

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 464
  Today, we filed the Reply Brief in DeJetley v. Kahoohalahala , No. 29929, the appeal now pending in the Hawaii Supreme Court regarding the Lanai member of the Maui Council who is alleged to not be a resident of Lanai as required by the county charter. Section 3-3 of the Charterprovides that "If a council member ...
  2 weeks ago

• Women Had Right to Vote, Lost it, Then got back the right to vote

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 131
  New Jersey Women Stormed To Take Back What Was Once Theirs Early Suffrage Poster Featuring George On This Date in History: The original constitution of the state of New Jersey said that “all inhabitants” who met residency requirements and had a net worth of at least 50 pounds had the right to vote. I ...
  2 weeks ago

• You Say Potato, I Say Potato; You Say 澳巴馬, I Say 歐巴馬

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 140
  Someone has Obama’s name wrong. No, there’s not another fake “real” birth certificate with Obama’s “real” name. Obama’s China visit has revealed a dispute over what to call him in Chinese. Although Washington Post reporter Keith B. Richburg doesn’t understand that’s an ideographic writing system ...
  2 weeks ago

• You Know You Make Me Want To Shout

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 140
  I feel like Texas needs a sign similar to the “X many days since a workplace accident” that says “X many days since a racist incident initiated by a public official.” We had a good half year since Betty Brown in April and Leo Berman before that. This time, the assistant director of the Elections Divison of ...
  2 weeks ago

• freekeenenews - Think theres a right to vote in NH? Not so! Heres Video Proof

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 444
  http://freekeene.com/2009/11/13/voter-intimidation-continues-in-keene/ Voter Intimidation Continues in Keene Filed under: Hypocrisy, Issues, Update — Ian at 11:45 pm on Friday, November 13, 2009 On the day of the general election I went to Ward 4’s voting location with the intention of voting for Free ...
  2 weeks ago

• Photo Quote

  
  Doodlemeister's Weblog — Authority: 118
  “Most of my pictures are compassionate, gentle and personal. They tend to let the viewer see for himself. They tend not to preach. And they tend not to pose as art.” Bruce Davidson American photographer, born 1933. Image: Magnum Photos
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• Thanks for Nothing

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 138
  On Sunday afternoon, Organizing for America (OFA) sent an email to supporters asking them to write thank you letters to their representatives for voting for H.R. 3962, the health insurance reform bill. I am not sure why I got this email, because my representative did not vote for health insurance reform—but not ...
  2 weeks ago

• No ceiling for managerial remuneration in Companies Law Bill 2009

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 452
  The new Bill, which is likely to come up in the Budget session in 2010, proposes no cap on the remuneration of CEOs, letting the shareholders decide the issue. Thanks to the Companies Law Bill 2009, the expression ‘shareholders’ democracy’ is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
  3 weeks ago

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