DdC

Tell Attorney General Holder:
Protect Every Citizen's Right to Vote
Today, 30 states have passed laws requiring voters to present identification to vote, and in 15 of those states, voters must present a government-issued photo ID. These laws will result in untold numbers of legal voters being turned away from the polls because over 21 million Americans do not have government-issued photo identification. Obtaining a photo ID presents a substantial — and unnecessary — barrier for many of our nation's citizens. There is no credible evidence that in-person impersonation voter fraud — the only type of fraud that photo IDs could prevent — is even a minor problem in our country.

The attacks are not just limited to voter ID. Some states are engaging in other voter suppression tactics like restricting voter registration drives and reducing the amount of time for early voting. All these laws disfranchise eligible voters — especially racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, low-income individuals, students, and voters with disabilities.

The Voting Rights Act vests significant authority in the Department of Justice to ensure laws are not implemented in a discriminatory manner. Because of some states' troubling history of voter suppression, any changes in their elections laws are subject to approval — or "pre-clearance" — by the Justice Department under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. In jurisdictions not covered by Section 5, the Department must ensure that these laws are implemented in a way that does not discriminate against protected groups in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Voting Rights
Established in 1965, the ACLU Voting Rights Project has worked to protect the gains in political participation won by racial and language minorities since passage of the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) that same year. The Project has filed more than 300 lawsuits to enforce the provisions of the VRA and the U.S. Constitution.



Voting Rights in Indian Country
A report highlighting challenges on behalf of American Indians in five western states — Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming to a variety of discriminatory election practices with special attention to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, its laws, restrictions, and rules, as well as subsequent amendments.

The Ganjawar Comes to the The Rez



Know Your Voting Rights - State by State
The Voting Rights Project of the ACLU is dedicated to providing citizens with information about and assistance in exercising their right to vote. Visit the page and click on the links for detailed information about voting in your state, and check out our quick tips for voters before you head to the polls.

Stealing America: Vote By Vote




End The Drug War, Face Jim Crow
US: Michelle Alexander: Flanders, Laura The Nation 31 Jul 2011
The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs. The resolution comes as young black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap has become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old "War on Drugs" public enemy number one for the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well, here's why: it's not extraneous, it's central: the war on drugs is the engine of twenty-first-century discrimination--an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.

The Racial Justice Program aims to preserve and extend the constitutional rights of people of color. Committed to combating racism in all its forms, our advocacy includes litigation, community organizing and training, legislative initiatives, and public education.

Racism: One More Reason To Legalize Pot
US DC: Washington City Paper (DC) 04 Aug 2011

NORML To Mayor Bloomberg:
Stop Arresting So Many Minorities For Marijuana!

Bloomberg Gives With One Hand; Takes With the Other

NAACP Says it's Time to End the Drug War; What About You?
US MD: Column: Pitts, Leonard Baltimore Sun 31 Jul 2011
also;Even the NAACP is Calling For An End to War on Drugs
US WA: Column: Pitts, Leonard Jr. Seattle Times 31 Jul 2011

Thank you Miss Rosa
* The Racist Ganjawar
* Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and MMJ Prohibition



Combating Mass Incarceration - The Facts
The war on drugs has helped make the U.S. the world's largest incarcerator, but our addiction to incarceration is unfair, costs too much and doesn't make us safer.

Three Strikes - The Impact After More Than a Decade
* The Legal Evolution of California’s Three Strikes Law
* Impact of Three Strikes on the Criminal Justice System
* The Impact of Three Strikes on Public Safety
* Conclusion-The Future of Three Strikes

The Three Strikes Law is not a solution to crime.... by B. Cayenne Bird
There's a great deal of mass brainwash which happens when the news media prints the government press releases about crime statistics without ever mentioning the fact that they are useless. The public has been suckered with soundbites and statistics into thinking that crime is down because of Three Strikes, Mandatory Minimums, the Death Penalty and Prisons. Nothing is further from the truth.

Three strikes laws



Mandatory sentencing
Like drug law mandatory minimums these have been criticized for limiting the discretion of judges and the jury and disrupting the balance of power.

In 1994, California introduced a "three strikes law", which was the first mandatory sentencing law to gain widespread publicity. Similar laws were subsequently adopted in most United States jurisdictions. The law requires imprisonment for a minimum term of 25 years after a defendant is convicted of a third felony.

There is some evidence that criminals on their last strike are more desperate to escape from police and therefore more likely to attack police. This does not reveal whether or not the criminals in question were or were not more desperate and willing to kill prior to their last strike.

On November 7, 2000, 60.8% of the state's voters supported an amendment to the statute (offered in Proposition 36) that scaled it back by providing for drug treatment instead of life in prison for most of those convicted of possessing drugs after the amendment went into effect.

FAMM

NRA Mandatory Minimum

WA Man Refuses Marijuana Fines, Chooses Jail

Speaking Truth to Power Works
by Giordano, stopthedrugwar.org August 06, 2011



Criminal Law Reform
The Criminal Law Reform Project seeks an end to excessively harsh crime policies that result in mass incarceration and stand in the way of a just and equal society. The Project works to reduce the number of people entering jails and prisons by reforming our nation's punitive drug policies and challenging police and prosecutorial misconduct and other governmental abuses of power.



Sentencing and Penalties
* 7/15/2011 Court Rejects Harsh Federal Drug Sentencing Guideline as Scientifically Unjustified
* 3/28/2011 ACLU Report Calls For Immediate Reform Of Mississippi Drug Enforcement System
* 1/18/2011 ACLU Files Commutation Petition On Behalf Of Man Serving Unjust Prison Sentence For Non-Violent Crime
* 12/17/2010 House Introduces Bill Allowing Challenges Of Unfair Crack Cocaine Sentences
* 12/3/2010 President Obama’s Exercise Of Pardon Power A Step In Right Direction
* 8/3/2010 President Obama Signs Bill Reducing Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
* 7/28/2010 President Obama Poised To Sign Bill Reducing Cocaine Sentencing Disparity After House Passage
* 5/27/2010 ACLU Advocates For Abolition Of Mandatory Minimums Before U.S. Sentencing Commission



Drug Testing
* 9/4/2009 Arizona Urges Governor to Veto Bill Denying Benefits to Domestic Partners, Welfare Recipients
* 8/21/2009 Federal Court Signs Off On Agreement To Permanently Halt Random Teacher Drug Testing In West Virginia
* 1/21/1999 ACLU of Florida Defends Man Who "Just Said No" to Workplace Urine Test



U.S. prison population largest in world

Women in Prison

The Truth About Our Prisoners by Kay 'Grandma' Lee

US gulags: 'Large-scale preventive detention'

America's Private Gulag



Which justice system do we get?

US Supreme Court crushes campaign finance restrictions

Redistricting Tom DeLay
The Supreme Court agreed this week to review Texas' 2003 Congressional redistricting, which added five Republicans to the state's delegation. The plan, engineered by the former House majority leader Tom DeLay, is rightly being challenged as partisan and discriminatory against minority voters. It is encouraging that the court has decided to step in.

A kinder, gentler fascism

Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'

Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA!



F.E.A.R.

U.S. prison population largest in world

I Lost My Freedom and Can't Find It Anywhere! Linx

Journey for Justice Pedaling for Pot

Kochaine A.L.E.C. Drug Detention Centers

How You Can Boycott the Kochs



The November Coalition

Human Rights and the WoD

The Real Price of Prisons

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Roach

thanks buddy,

I'll be working the polls this election, might even get some campaigning in.

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Dear David,

You're in for 2012: Welcome, and thanks.

Now forget everything you know about politics.

Because I can tell you that the next year and a half will be like nothing you've seen from a campaign. If we're going to win, we have to be tougher, smarter, and more innovative than ever before.

The President has a job to do, so he's asking each of us to take the lead in shaping this effort.

That work begins now in your community.

Volunteer | Obama for America | 2012

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לזיין את הקופים

DdC

A War on Voting:
Could Redistricting and Voting Law Changes Help Republicans Win in 2012?

A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice warns changes to voting laws could strip the voting rights of more than 5 million people — a higher number than the margin of victory in two of the last three presidential elections. Its findings reveal some 3.2 million people in Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin do not have the state identification they will now need to vote. Others will be kept from the voting booth by tougher restrictions for convicted prisoners and laws requiring proof of U.S. citizenship. In 2012, states that have cracked down on voting rights will account for 63 percent of the 270 Electoral College votes needed for a presidential victory. We speak with Ari Berman, author of the new article in Rolling Stone magazine, “The GOP War on Voting," and with ProPublica reporter Lois Beckett, who co-wrote, "The Hidden Hands in Redistricting: Corporations and Other Powerful Interests," about how money is helping re-shape Congressional districts along partisan lines, a practice known as gerrymandering. [Includes rush transcript]

One of the main players in the photo ID component has been the American Legislative Exchange Council, otherwise known as ALEC, who, as you know, is funded in part by the Koch brothers, the billionaire brothers from Kansas. And what ALEC did, was after the 2008 election, they drafted mock legislation for states to then pass, and what happened is, in five of these states that passed photo ID laws, the legislation was cosponsored by members of ALEC and in three states, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the draft legislation that ALEC gave them was basically almost identical to the legislation introduced. We see ALEC playing a major role.
ARI BERMAN

*"The GOP War on Voting,” by Ari Berman (Rolling Stone)

* "The Hidden Hands in Redistricting:
Corporations and Other Powerful Interests,"
by Olga Pierce,Jeff Larson and Lois Beckett



Tell Holder: Protect Every Citizen's Right to Vote!



Press Freedom Victory:
Democracy Now! Reporters Win Landmark Settlement Over 2008 RNC Arrests

ALEC Exposed:
State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition

"Herding Donkeys:
The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics

deadhead94

How the fuck is getting ID a "substantial barrier"?

I have 3 pieces of government ID without trying.

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DdC

Maybe they aren't lapdog suck ups and prefer living as Americans who don't have to listen to "Ihre Papiere, bitte!". Just more Jim Crow and you have no problem with it is no surprise at all. None in the least. Totally expected it. GOPerverts never have a problem lying and cheating. That was the point of the post and for you to disregard everything else speaks volumes. Again, not that I'm surprised by it. I'm only surprised at how many of you dorks come to Ganja forums expecting to find GOPerverts. Any Ganja initiative is subject to the same GOP gerrymandering. Here deadbrain, It'll make you feel all warm and fuzzy. Listen up now. "Ihre Papiere, bitte!"

Koch Roaches A.L.E.C. Drug Detention Centers

The concept behind the site Tea Party Jesus
Put the words of conservative Christian social and political figures in the mouth of Christ. The juxtaposition of hateful, ignorant, or otherwise nonsensical rants with serene photos of JC himself isn't only funny, but says a lot about the people who claim to be Christians.

Rush Limbaugh

Jewish Pork

This must be why he refused to prosecute the Black Panthers for voter intimidation outside of a polling place...

mothernature

well, let's see....

What does it take to get a government ID?....

First a legal copy of your birth certificate, cost $10, plus forms and postage. Now take that and another form of ID, and find a way to the license bureau to pay $20 for a government issued ID card.

Now that 30+ bucks may not seem like a lot to you, but for others, it's the difference between keeping their electric on or not. Remember, not everyone is lucky enough to be born to a family where $30 is chump change.

To ME, it means that you have to pay for the right to vote.

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Sometimes sleep is the best revenge- Luke

DdC

Corporate Fascism: Billions to Wall St. and Lies to the People
It must never be forgotten that both Barack Obama and John McCain supported the over 700 billion dollar sell out of the people to the elite finance capitalists of Wall Street, despite the expressed overwhelming opposition to it from every day persons throughout the United States.

I don't think Jesus prosecuted anyone.
Sorta takes away the point of his being invented don't ya think?

Panthers carried guns as a defensive measure, not to intimidate voters Jim Crow. To protect blacks wanting to vote and get past rednecks and pigs. You know, crackers with badges. Don't ya feel all ucky blaming the poor while sucking up to the Koch roaches? Filthy mind picking on the weak. Just a disgusting display.



Black Panther Party Legacy and Alumni

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Jewish Pork

Do, at the very least, try to keep up with the conversation when you formulate a response towards one of my posts.

Or maybe you're not up to date with current affairs (moveon.org didn't give the event I'm talking about much coverage).

or...

John F. Kerry

this is the same holder who didnt know that he read memos about the gun running mexican operation? that niggas thru...no offense or anything, but has anyone been paying attention? he lied worse than watergate about what he knew about that fast and furious thing and barely anyone seems to care.

guess they gotta catch him on camera smoking crack with a prostitute before anyone can touch one of obamas chosen people

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Nasa under Obama

John F. Kerry

Obama’s uncle quietly released from jail - Boston.com

obamas uncle, he got off.

Fast and Furious: Texas Rep. Lamar wants answers about Holder's involvement | Alaska Dispatch

holder, hes bsing people worse than rummey.


....at least clinton waited till he was leaving office to pardon all the crooks.

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Nasa under Obama

DdC

Do, at the very least, try to keep up with the conversation. Holder isn't rigging the votes. Holder didn't lie about Iraq. Holder didn't kill 4000 Americans over a lie. Holder didn't fast track Aspartame for Searle and Monsanto. Holder is no Rummy. Nothing to do with Holder except for him to enforce the laws and bust the ugly GOPervert fascists and then you trolls can go back under your denial rock and play with each other.

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DdC

Looky here troll you're a fucking asswipe, It's your statement following this pic of jc. So if you continue to troll one line nonsense I'll have to close the thread. Got something to say then spit it out boy. Otherwise keep your troll drool to yourself.

This is the only "he" in the pic Neocon.

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