Houston The lion in winter is still a lion, and John Lewis, a beacon for the civil rights movement in the 1960’s and now a longstanding Congressman from Atlanta, roared in the halls of Congress the other night about voting rights once again. The simple issue that pushed his button was the hater amendment from another …
Category: Voting Rights
Technology and Democracy: Wired Magazine Elitism versus Pirate Party Openness
New Orleans My son subscribes to Wired magazine, the glossy, tech and computer boosting publication. I like it and read it regularly once he’s finished. Yesterday, it was in the pile of publications I toted to the basement of the Criminal Court jury rooms to pass the time in my required biannual service as a …
Huge Obstacles to Beating Scott Walker in Wisconsin Recall
Madison The life-and-death struggle in Wisconsin to turn back the radical and sweeping rightwing program of Governor Scott Walker being waged by progressive forces is entering another set of critical challenges. The primary to choose a Democratic opponent to Walker votes on May 8th only weeks away with the general election a month later on …