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Democracy Charter: December 2011
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Thursday, December 22, 2011. GOP Engaging In Mass Vote Theft. Julian Bond, center, in the SNCC days of the early 1960s. Voting Rights: Which Side Are You On? There is no evidence that voter impersonation — the only thing voter IDs at the polls could prevent — exists. These laws are intended as a barrier to the ballot. These new voter-suppression laws make it difficult for poor people, racial minorities, the elderly, students and the disabled to vote because of added costs and undue burdens, in essence a ...
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Democracy Charter: GOP Engaging In Mass Vote Theft
http://www.democracycharter.org/2011/12/gop-engaging-in-mass-vote-theft.html
Thursday, December 22, 2011. GOP Engaging In Mass Vote Theft. Julian Bond, center, in the SNCC days of the early 1960s. Voting Rights: Which Side Are You On? There is no evidence that voter impersonation — the only thing voter IDs at the polls could prevent — exists. These laws are intended as a barrier to the ballot. These new voter-suppression laws make it difficult for poor people, racial minorities, the elderly, students and the disabled to vote because of added costs and undue burdens, in essence a ...
progressivesforobama.blogspot.com
Progressive America Rising: States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/2015/01/states-minimum-wages-rise-helping.html
News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Sunday, January 4, 2015. States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers. Fast-food and health care workers, and supporters, demonstrated in Los Angeles on Dec. 4 in a nationwide rally for higher pay. Robyn Beck / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Via New York Times. 8220;I need to make a decision to buy clothes, or pay the rent or pay my cellphone bill,...
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Progressive America Rising: Why Baltimore Is Burning
http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-baltimore-is-burning.html
News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Why Baltimore Is Burning. And we were segregated, hard, by a local power structure that did not want the ghetto to be seen nor heard from, and certainly not to bring its struggles out in plain sight for the world to see. Except all of this is mad real, Black people in America—the self-proclaimed greatest democracy on earth—are be...No matter...
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Progressive America Rising: Guns, Settlers & Race
http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/2015/04/guns-settlers-race.html
News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Saturday, April 4, 2015. Guns, Settlers and Race. Black Panthers made headlines. By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Z Communications Daily Commentary. The gun issue in the USA is related to history but not particularly to the 2nd Amendment (the supposed right to bear arms). The debate precedes the 2nd Amendment by more than a century and it revolves around settlers and race. The g...
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Progressive America Rising: Year-Round, Locally Based Precinct Organizing Is Essential for Moving the Democratic Party (Or Any Other Group) Leftward
http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/2015/03/year-round-locally-based-precinct.html
News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Sunday, March 22, 2015. Year-Round, Locally Based Precinct Organizing Is Essential for Moving the Democratic Party (Or Any Other Group) Leftward. US Senator Dick Durbin and his wife Loretta chat with precinct captain Joe Poelsterl. The most important job I ever had was Precinct Captain. —Harry S Truman. We are stuck in a rinse-repeat cycle in which a relatively large ...
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Progressive America Rising: Uphill Fight: Taking on Finance Capital in Congress
http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/2015/01/uphill-fight-taking-on-finance-capital.html
News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Monday, January 26, 2015. Uphill Fight: Taking on Finance Capital in Congress. How Bernie Sanders, In New Role, Could Make Wall Streeters Very, Very Unhappy. Jan 26, 2015 - Big banks now have to contend with an old enemy in a new position of power. Sanders knows how to draw the media spotlight when advocating for a cause. As media types muse over Sanders’s prosp...
progressivesforobama.blogspot.com
Progressive America Rising: Baltimore: Race, Class and Uprisings
http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/2015/05/baltimore-race-class-and-uprisings.html
News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Monday, May 4, 2015. Baltimore: Race, Class and Uprisings. A protester on a bicycle thrusts his fist in the air next to a line of police, in front of a burning CVS drug store, during clashes in Baltimore, Maryland April 27, 2015. This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http:/, Reuters. By Bill Fletcher Jr. There was little about the ...
progressivesforobama.blogspot.com
Progressive America Rising: How A Ragtag Group Of Lefties Mainlined Debt-Free College Into The Democratic Primary
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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Saturday, May 9, 2015. How A Ragtag Group Of Lefties Mainlined Debt-Free College Into The Democratic Primary. Could Progressive Change Campaign Committee help ignite the youth vote for Democrats? To the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, averaging $ 28,400. I'm hopeful that debt-free college is the next big idea. - Senator Chuck Schumer. To write a white paper. In Marc...
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SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Demand Justice for Sandra Bland
http://sacramentopa.blogspot.com/2015/07/demand-justice-for-sandra-bland.html
Official blog of the Sacramento Progressive Alliance, the Central Valley's largest grassroots progressive organization with more than 5,000 members. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Demand Justice for Sandra Bland. You just slammed my head to the ground. Do you not even care about that? These were some of the last words of 28-year-old Sandra Bland. Local District Attorney Elton Mathis has handed over the investigation to the same police agency that arrested Sandra. The local police department and prosecutor's off...
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