" 3-26-09 [Councilman]Will Rossbach asked Maplewood police to remove the public from the last Smoke Task Force. Council Member Rossbach didn't get the group to vote his way tonight, so he then tried to...
Here is an opportunity for us to crowdsource this election. We should all be watching this closely."Today, Barbara Anwine of the Election Protection Coalition (1-866-OUR-VOTE), a nonpartisan group, told MSNBC about voter suppression tactics they have witnessed...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago 96 views | 17 recommendations | 2 comments
CNN refers to 50,000 as "some". Fifty thousand is peanuts compared to the total number of voters who may get disenfranchised in 2008 due to poor management of a system that's open to "errors" and dirty tricks; 13 Million Voters Purged -- and Counting!, but in a nation,...
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- College senior Kyla Berry was looking forward to voting in her first presidential election, even carrying her voter registration card in her wallet. ...
2008-09-30:"Some Ohio citizens may find it easier to vote this election thanks to recent rulings that blocked two Republican tries at vote suppression. In one case, Republicans challenged same day registration...
created by hungeski | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 335 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Virginia is still a battleground state as evidenced on Monday when the commonwealth's GOP chairman made a few choice statements of his own." Jeffrey Frederick accused the Obama campaign and local canvassing organizations of colluding to register new minority voters in...
created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 167 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
"More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report. Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University...
created by VLOGZ | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 427 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
Canadian students, in a rush to make sure that no one thinks they are not crazier than Sharon Stone came up with this."Toronto:Canadian women have launched a Panties for Peace! campaign to sendtheir undergarments to the Myanmar military junta to frighten it intoending...
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"The Irish Olympic Council has said the Irish team and its athletes will be taking part in the Beijing Olympic games regardless of any political or diplomatic boycott that could be staged.Under the Olympic Charter sport and politics always remain separate. The Irish Olympic...
About 50 Tibetans on 28 March demonstrated in Kathmandu with the placard of “FREE TIBET”. They demonstrated in front of the UN Building in Lalitpur around 10 o’clock in the morning. About 17 of...
created by mnepali | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 219 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
"RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A research team led by Mark Hoddle, a biological control specialist at UC Riverside, has nearly eradicated the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a major agricultural pest, from the island of...
created by JonBaker | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 208 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The Washington Post scores with this accurate editorial about China's bloody oppression of other peoples and nations. As is being shown in the military slaughter in Myanmar, just as it was earlier demonstrated in Tibet, China intends to hammer other peoples into submission...
created by PEP | 2 years ago 599 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The JacksonVille Times-Union's story on vote caging has gained some traction."U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has joined the call for a federal investigation into possible voter suppression in Jacksonville as part of the probe into firings of several U.S. attorneys."
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"Voter suppression in America may have affected our last three Congressional and last two Presidential elections. The efforts uncovered so far have been aimed at suppressing minority votes or those who...
created by biverson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 295 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment