Please add your name to an open letter calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take a public stand for the full restoration of the Voting Rights Act at https://action.groundswell-mvmt.org/petitions/open-letter-to-attorney-general-sessions-join-us-in-selma-on-the-right-side-of-history. We are coming up on the 52nd Anniversary of Bloody … Continued
Washington Post By Jim Sensenbrenner November 2 at 7:12 PM Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin, is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives On Tuesday, Americans will elect a president without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. The … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/23/voting-rights-risk-across-us-international-monitors-called-help Published on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 by Common Dreams ‘A confluence of factors has made the right to vote more vulnerable to racial discrimination than at any time in recent history,’ says civil rights coalition By Deirdre … Continued
Courts opened the floodgates to unlimited and unaccountable corporate money. State legislatures and governors have created new “Jim Crow” laws that disenfranchise minorities. But you can help restore our democracy by getting the Senate to take action. Progressive Senators have … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/29/court-rules-nc-voter-id-law-intentionally-discriminatory Published on Friday, July 29, 2016 by Common Dreams ‘With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to eliminate voting practices disproportionately used by African-Americans’ By Nika Knight, staff writer Government pamphlets explaining the recently struck-down voter ID law … Continued
We’ve recently had two great pieces of news for voting rights and the Rising American Electorate. The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Texas’s voter ID law, the strictest in the nation, is racially discriminatory in effect and, … Continued