Dauphine Island My friend and comrade, Mary Rowles, the organizing director of the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU) had recommended that I read Antonia Raeburn’s The Militant Suffragettes. Thanks to the miracles of Amazon and the “long tail,” I was able to find a copy published in 1974 exclusively for the members of the …
Category: Voting Rights
AG Holder Advocates National Automatic Voter Registration System
New Orleans Remember the election six weeks ago? Fierce fights about voter suppression came before the voting and then long lines in state after state were the result of continued obstacles for the electorate. President Obama in echoes of his recent statement about gun control on election night said, “We need to fix that.” Finally, Attorney …
Many Republican Ghostbusters Still Believe ACORN Stole this Election, Too!
Quito First there was a Facebook posting to me that I thought was a joke, complete with a picture of James O’Keefe in his racist pimp-master fur suit. But, then the emails started coming in, and it was increasingly clear, that, yes, Virginia, there may not be a Santa Claus, but according to the weird …