"December 10: Stand For Freedom March in NYC"
http://www.stand4freedom.org/
"This year, two-thirds of state legislatures have introduced laws that undermine the right to vote. Early voting and Sunday voting are under attack, photo ID requirements will introduce the first financial and document barrier to voting since the poll tax, and racially-motivated bans on ex-felons will wipe tens of thousands off the rolls."
"This effort is unprecedented, it is coordinated, and it is targeted."
"The right to vote is the heart of our democracy. Throughout our history Americans have been murdered for defending this basic human right. We will not let it be taken away from millions today."
Join us on Saturday, December 10th—The United Nations’ Human Rights Day—to proclaim to America and the world:
It’s time to Stand for Freedom. We must protect our right to vote.
Assembly and March Information
10:30 am to 11:30 am: assemble 61st St. and Madison Ave., the Koch brothers' NYC office.
11:30 am: March from 61st St. and Madison Ave. to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Comments (13)
i hope this is a red flag that enrages a few of our black bullheads to a snortful rebuke
i'll conceed this is the point that gets to my gut
" Americans have been murdered for defending this basic human right"
Posted by op | December 9, 2011 7:31 AM
Posted on December 9, 2011 07:31
It's wonderful to defend the right to vote against those who subvert voting rights for political advantage. Now if we could just find someone or something to vote for, or transform this nation's political process into one where voting could actually bring about change.
Posted by Charles D![[TypeKey Profile Page]](../../nav-commenters.gif)
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December 9, 2011 8:06 AM
Posted on December 9, 2011 08:06
No point in lamenting voting restrictions when there is no one to vote for. Those who were murdered defending the right died in vain; though, when one considers that the right is still taken seriously today, they couldn't have been expected to know that.
Posted by davidly | December 9, 2011 9:10 AM
Posted on December 9, 2011 09:10
thank you for playing the dummmmy hand davidly
in particular this tough love
darkly juvenile bull shit
"Those who were murdered defending the right died in vain"
i hope a full SMBIVA black-blockhead chorus chimes in with you on this
i'll throw a log on the fire myself:
the great national rituals
that are nothing more then
pernicious illusions of popular "oversight and consent "
should be scorned not defended
Posted by op | December 9, 2011 9:34 AM
Posted on December 9, 2011 09:34
on the other hand comrade D
this iron maiden mirth
shines nicely
"Dem Serenity Pledge
Grant me serenity to bend to the things I cannot change, the courage to fine-tune the change that I used to believe in, and the wisdom to leave it up to those who know better than I do to get us to wherever the hell it is we're going."
Posted by op | December 9, 2011 10:55 AM
Posted on December 9, 2011 10:55
Bah, what a load of horsehockey (as the late, great Col. Potter would say).
You'd think we'd have reached the saturation point for reasons not to vote... Voter ID laws, voter suppression campaigns by both wings of The Party, skanky electronic voting machines, politicians obviously in the service of oligarchy, you name it. But, nooooooooo, not here in the good old USA, where we fetishize voting -- no matter how pointless it's become -- and consider it some kind of compulsory duty, like reporting for a draft. Spit.
Why in the name of all that is holy are these knuckleknobs still campaigning for voting rights? Y'know, in any other country where this shit is going on, opposition parties and other dissident outfits would be declaring this election what it is -- a big, fat scam -- and calling for a boycott.
A commenter over on Mock, Paper, Scissors put it best: American Democracy is dead, and voting now is like visiting the grave.
Posted by Mike Flugennock | December 9, 2011 2:06 PM
Posted on December 9, 2011 14:06
flug
beautiful baby beautiful
"American Democracy is dead, and voting now is like visiting the grave."
voting ....now ???
like it was alive ... once ???
and and stopped being alive ...when ??
Posted by op | December 9, 2011 4:39 PM
Posted on December 9, 2011 16:39
"... Charles Davis, an independent journalist and Occupy DC participant... expressed concern that groups like the SEIU and Moveon.org have already attempted to hijack Occupy in order to solely target the GOP and to support President Obama's jobs program."
http://inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/12386/occupy_goes_underground
"solely target the GOP and to support President Obama's jobs program"
"solely target the GOP and to support President Obama's jobs program"
is this surprising ??
is it really impossible to cope with ???
do these cut outs etc need to be purged or at least isolated ???
the specific difference here
between a movement
and an organization within that movement
needs clarification
Posted by op | December 9, 2011 5:31 PM
Posted on December 9, 2011 17:31
a fight to sustain an open franchise
narrowed to the right to vote Democratic
i suspect that narrowing can be preempted
Posted by op | December 9, 2011 5:32 PM
Posted on December 9, 2011 17:32
op sez on 12.09.11 @10:55:
"Dem Serenity Pledge
Grant me serenity to bend to the things I cannot change, the courage to fine-tune the change that I used to believe in, and the wisdom to leave it up to those who know better than I do to get us to wherever the hell it is we're going."
Oh, man, that fucking kills.
Where did you find that? Is that one of yours -- and if so, do I have your permission to use it if I can find a way to work it into a cartoon? That's a goddamn' howl, man.
Posted by Mike Flugennock | December 10, 2011 8:35 AM
Posted on December 10, 2011 08:35
@Mike: Thanks.
I wrote it last Sunday here:
http://davidly66.blogspot.com/2011/12/one-lazy-ass-conspiracy-theory.html
I'd be honored.
Posted by davidly | December 10, 2011 9:19 AM
Posted on December 10, 2011 09:19
i love bringing you anarcho dark minded types together
you rut rough and passionate
like gay irish elk
Posted by op | December 10, 2011 12:30 PM
Posted on December 10, 2011 12:30
end
prior restraint democracy
Posted by op | December 10, 2011 12:37 PM
Posted on December 10, 2011 12:37