Ari BermanOvjeren akaunt

@AriBerman

Author: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America Writer: Speaking: annette@speakersforall.com

New York
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2008.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 5. velj

    Romney: "It was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security & our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine.”

  2. 1. velj

    60 years ago today, 4 North Carolina A&T students held first major sit-in of civil rights movement at Greensboro Woolworth. They were 18 & 19 at time. Movement spread to 55 cities in 3 months. A reminder of the power young activists have

  3. 22. sij

    Senate Rs blocking new evidence/witnesses represent 15 million fewer Americans than Dems Senate Rs lost popular vote 54-46 in 2018 Senators from 7% of country can block Trump's removal from office Every impeachment story should highlight these facts

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  4. 20. sij

    Martin Luther King & John Lewis marching from Selma to Montgomery in support of Voting Rights Act, March 1965. One of my favorite photos from civil rights movement

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  5. 20. sij

    In December John Lewis presided over the House as it voted to restore the Voting Rights Act. Instead of empty words, Congress can honor MLK’s legacy & Lewis’s life by putting an end to voter suppression. King called right to vote “civil right number one”

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  6. 17. sij

    GOP gerrymandering could be even more extreme in 2021: -First redistricting cycle in 50 years without full protection of Voting Rights Act -SCOTUS says federal courts can’t review partisan gerrymandering -Huge numbers of people of color excluded from political representation

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  7. 17. sij

    The same people who convinced SCOTUS to gut Voting Rights Act now want to overturn “one person, one vote” Conservative activist Edward Blum told me Republicans in 5 states have called him to express interest in Trump’s plan to exclude non-voters from political representation

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  8. 17. sij

    Political districts have long been drawn based on total population but Trump wants states to only count eligible voters, excluding kids & non-citizens from representation. This would be huge power shift to GOP areas, undoing decades of demographic change & minority representation

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  9. 16. sij

    After SCOTUS blocked census citizenship question Trump issued exec order that could let GOP states draw districts excluding 55% of Latinos, 45% of Asian Americans & 30% of African Americans from representation. This is racial gerrymandering on steroids

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  10. 8. sij

    Very excited to talk voting rights tonight with the legends Ilana Glazer & . Come for the gerrymandering critiques, stay for the weed jokes Event is sold out but you can watch livestream here

  11. John Lewis nearly died marching for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He was only 25. A moment that forever changed American history. His unbelievable courage & resiliency defeated white supremacy. Now we all need to pray he defeats cancer

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  12. Voting Rights Advancement Act requires 11 states w/ recent history of voting discrimination to approve voting changes with federal government & all states to get approval for suppressive measures like voter ID laws & closing polling places

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  13. In 2006 House reauthorized Voting Rights Act 390-33 Today only one House Republican (Brian Fitzpatrick) voted to restore the VRA Very sad commentary on GOP

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  14. Want to know how Republicans rig elections? In Kentucky 300,000 people can't vote in Tuesday's gov race b/c of past felony conviction, including over 1 in 4 African Americans. Matt Bevin reversed policy restoring rights to non-violent ex-offenders, disenfranchising 140k

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  15. I asked if he ever thought he'd see an attorney general worse than Jeff Sessions? "No," he said. "Barr is unfit for the job. Flying around the world trying to validate conspiracy theories is totally inconsistent with job of attorney general"

  16. Watch ’s powerful response to Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a “lynching” “I thought that was reprehensible. That’s reflective of who this man is and why he’s got to get his ass beaten in 2020.”

  17. The most egregious example of student voter suppression is still Texas, where you can vote with a gun permit but not a student ID

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  18. 60,000 Florida students voted on college campuses in 2018 after federal judge overturned ban on early voting sites at state universities. So this year GOP legislature said all early voting sites must have “sufficient non-permitted parking” which most campuses don't. So absurd

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  19. Voting Rights Advancement Act requires 11 states w/ recent history of voting discrimination to approve voting changes with fed govt & all states to get approval for suppressive measures like voter ID laws & closing polling places

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  20. If you're in DC tonight come to very timely conversation on importance of protecting voting rights with me & If we don't fix our democracy we won't fix our politics Tix here

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