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Ballot Access
The right to vote includes the right to vote for, and hear from, the candidate or issue of one's choice.
Organizing ResourcesVoter Bill of RightsFrom unreliable electronic voting machines and millions of uncounted ballots, to partisan election officials and 10-hour waits at the polls, it is clear that our electoral system is in dire need of an overhaul. To build a more just, secure, and robust democracy, please support the following 10-point Voter Bill of Rights . . . NewsWAVE NEWS: Released felons rally for return of voting rightsDate: March 4, 2010CHNI NEWS: Kentuckians rally for ex-felon voting rightsDate: March 4, 2010ATHENS BANNER-HERALD: "Left for dead", Amelia Robinson recalls voting rights struggleDate: February 21, 2010Take ActionTake the Pledge of Action!source: No More Stolen Elections!EventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Publications & TalksThe Citizen's Election Assessment Hearing"The challenge is to create a movement that expands and deepens the notion of elections and democracy itself." Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." |
No More Stolen Elections
Creative Copyright 2005
Creative Copyright 2005
Democracy will not come today, this year, nor ever, through compromise and fear.
~ Langston Hughes
~ Langston Hughes