(2016/08/09) Fighting for your right (Voting Rights)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1034
Today we take a look at the recent judicial wins for voting rights as well as how far we still have to go
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 3: Song 1: get real - the mountain firework company
Ch. 5: Song 2: How Do You Sleep? - Emily DeLoach
Ch. 6: Act 3: The role of the media in covering voter suppression laws - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 8-5-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Gobbledigook - Sigur Rós
Ch. 8: Act 4: The 'Daily Show' Segment That Helped Change N.C. Voting Rights - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 08-03-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Knock Yourself Out - Jon Brion
Ch. 11: Song 5: Room For Improvement - The Tracelords
Ch. 12: Act 6: Demand @RepGoodlatte Hold #VRA Hearings via @NAACP #RestoretheVRA - Best of the Left Activism - 8:9:16, 3.43 PM
Ch. 13: Song 6: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 14: Act 7: This idea must die: Election Edition - @freakonomics - Air Date 7-27-16
Voicemails
Ch. 15: Short and long term electoral strategy - Quai from North Carolina
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 16: Final comments on what will be to blame when one party loses the election
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
TAKE ACTION
Call Rep Goodlatte - Roanoke, VA office: (540) 857-2672; DC office: (202) 225-5431
Tweet at Rep Goodlatte - @RepGoodlatte
Email Rep Goodlatte at talk2bob@mail.house.gov
EDUCATE YOURSELF
NAACP President Arrested After Staging Voting Rights Sit-in at Lawmakers Office (The Guardian)
'Do Something, or Arrest Us:" NAACP Demands Restoration of Voting Rights (NBC)
NAACP National President Cornell William Brooks Arrested After Sit In (NAACP)
The Recent Court Rulings Against Voting Restrictions Explained (Vox)
What is the Voting Rights Act? Here's Why This Legislations Still Matters, 51 Years Later (Policy.mic)
Here's What's Happening in the Battle for Voting Rights (Mother Jones)
Voting Rights and Elections (The Brennan Center for Justice)
Written by BOTL Communications Director, Amanda Hoffman.
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | If it hurts a bunch of college kids, |
| 0:01.5 | there's two lazy to get up off their boat, |
| 0:03.5 | hunkers, and go get a photo ID. |
| 0:05.9 | So be it. |
| 0:06.6 | Right, right. |
| 0:07.5 | If it hurts, the whites, so be it. |
| 0:09.8 | If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks, |
| 0:11.6 | it's mostly the government. |
| 0:12.6 | Get me there's like, so be it. |
| 0:14.3 | And it just so happens that a lot of those people vote |
| 0:17.6 | Democrat. |
| 0:18.8 | Gee. |
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