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Massive Turnout At NC ‘Moral March’ Puts Right Wing On Notice

February 10, 2014 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , , , , ,
“Welcome to North Carolina,” reads one sign. “Turn your watch back 50 years!” You could say that the ”Moral Monday” movement and Saturday’s ”Mass Moral March” are the backlash against a backlash–against modernity. Since gaining the upper hand in the legislature in 2010 and securing the governorship in 2012, North Carolina’s GOP has gone on a rampage. In response, Moral Monday protests around the state have been growing in strength and numbers. People are fed up with the government’s hard-right turn and its seeming nostalgia for the pre-integration, pre-civil rights, and pre-feminist era. They came by busloads from Florida, New York, Alabama and Missouri and as far west as Oregon and Washington state to join ten of thousands of North Carolinians in Raleigh, the state capital.

South Carolinians Launch “Truthful Tuesdays” at Columbia State House

January 20, 2014 Wade Fulmer, dcmediagroup.us
South Carolina has persistently assaulted voting rights by excluding some citizens while assuring partisan incumbencies. Decades of gerrymandering have eroded the credibility of voting results. In seeking unjustified voter ID requirements, the partisan legislature reveals its mission to suppress democracy. Scandalous electronic voting machines have no paper back-up.

California Bill Would End Verification Of Electronic Voting

September 23, 2013 Brad Friedman, www.bradblog.com
"The bill, as we explained in our detailed exposé last week, would end all federal testing of new e-voting systems in the state of California. The use of only federally-approved voting systems had long been a requirement in the state. Moreover, the measure would grant unprecedented sweeping executive powers to the Sec. of State to approve new voting and tabulation systems for use in real elections without any certification testing at all, even by state auditors."

Demand Restoration and Expansion of Voting Rights Act

July 2, 2013 Staff, www.laborfightback.org
In one of the most atrocious decisions in its long, class-based, and often highly repressive history, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 25, 2013 handed down a ruling gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This Act was adopted only after years of tumultuous struggle sparked by marches, rallies, mass demonstrations, civil disobedience, sit-ins and confrontations with club-wielding cops, sheriffs and police dogs. Activists shed blood and even died in the fight to secure voting rights. Sufficient pressure was finally mustered to force Congress to pass the legislation and Lyndon Johnson to sign it.

Labor Fightback Urges All Out for March on Washington, August 24

July 1, 2013 Staff, www.laborfightback.org , ,
The NJ State Industrial Union Council after hosting the Labor Fightback Conference at Rutgers in May passed the following resolution in support of the August 24 March on Washington. We say All Aboard - buses, trains, planes, cars and the Metro. Make your voices heard for a National Jobs Program, Medicare for All, Expanded and Improved Social Security, Redirection of Military Spending to Fund Human Needs, Make Wall St Pay, Restore Voting Rights and so much more! For more information, go to www.laborfightback.org We are mobilizing for the Aug. 24 March on Washington and endorsers can be found on the Labor Fightback website. We're hoping there will be many buses from NJ and around the country converging on DC.
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