https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/15/trump_georgia_indictment_latosha_brown

#BlackVotersMatter #Georgia #GeorgiaIndictment

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3XrHMFd6CTE

#DemocracyNow
#BlackVotersMatter Co-founder: #Trump's Indictment Is A step Forward in Defending #Democracy

#AmericansOfConscienceChecklist "Good News" for Feb 17, 2023

Other States Good News 1

#Georgia Sec. of State’s office reverses their preliminary finding and concludes that #BlackVotersMatter and their partners did not violate campaign law.

#Indiana voters with print #disabilities can #VoteByMail with assistance from a person they choose, or may use a remote-accessible tool to mark their ballots.

https://americansofconscience.com/02-17-2023/?#goodnews

5/n

RT @Greg_Palast
You only see these long lines in Blacklanta, where state law eliminated most dropboxes.

The official wait times in white rural counties and suburbs was 10 minutes or at most half an hour.

#Georgia #Runoff #RunoffGA #gapol #BlackLivesMatter #BlackVotesBatter #BlackVotersMatter

https://youtu.be/AiF-SJKAbio #BlackVotersMatter #GeorgiaRunOff

#BlackWomenLeaders #BlackMastodon #BlackVotersMatter #BlackTwitter

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Nancy MacLean on "Democracy In Chains" | Jan 16th, 2020

Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., whose new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, has been described by Publishers Weekly as “a thoroughly researched and gripping narrative… [and] a feat of American intellectual and political history.” Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.”

#BlackVotersMatter

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RA0nfoVMKKs

For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery

​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
09 Nov 2022

The 50 year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an improvement in the lives of the Black working class.

The agenda was set with the Lewis Powell Memorandum in 1971. Written at the request of the United States Chamber of Commerce, probably the most influential structure of capitalist rule at the time, the concern for the Chamber was the need to find a more coherent counter-offensive to the attacks against the system over the previous years. At the center of the anti-system attacks during the 1960s was, of course, the Black Liberation Movement and the Anti-War movement. 

Powell made the argument that the capitalist class had to recognize that their very survival was at stake and that meant capitalists had to understand that as a class their interests transcended their individual enterprises.

#BlackMastodon #Anarchism #BlackTwitter #BlackVotersMatter

https://blackagendareport.com/africanblack-working-class-and-colonized-peoples-midterm-elections-us-offer-no-relief-war

The Future of Democracy Depends on the Ground Game

The street-level work to educate and motivate voters goes uncelebrated, but our norms and institutions depend upon it.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ground-game-organizing-elections/

#USPol #Midterms #Autocracy #Democracy #StaceyAbrams #Georgia #GrassrootsAction #BVM #BlackVotersMatter #BlackVotesMatter

I’m a big fan of Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight Action and one of their actions this summer is amplifying the efforts of Black Voters Matter, which is having a summer Freedom Ride.

This week, BVM is will be traveling by bus for a voter outreach tour from Mississippi to Washington D.C., making stops in key southern states. 

BVM’s Freedom Rides for Voting Rights, which continues the tradition of the original Freedom Rides, comes as more than 40 states consider legislation to restrict voting rights, which would have a disproportionate impact on Black communities. In addition to voter outreach and engagement, the bus tour will raise awareness about this harmful legislation and empower communities to combat restrictions to early voting, absentee ballots, and other important reforms. Show up and help spread the word.

Freedom Ride for Voting Rights- #FreedomRide2021 • #BlackVotersMatter • #FairFightAction • #ProtectTheVote
https://www.mobilize.us/blackvotersmatter/event/388916/