El picket sign

desde tejas a california
campesinos estan luchando
desde Tejas a California
campesinos estan luchando
los rancheros a llore-llore
de huelga ya estan bien pandos

el picket sign
el picket sign
lo llevo por todo el dia
el picket sign
el picket sign
conmigo toda la vida ...

Stonewall Nation

i don't want to see my brothers
kicked into the dust no more
their dreams all turned to rust no more
no more no more ...

... just wait and see ...

Carefully taught

Biko

september 77
port elizabeth weather fine
it was business as usual
in police room 619 ...

you can blow out a candle
but you can't blow out a fire ...

Bourgeois Blues

... the white folks in Washington they know how
to call a man a n****r just to see him bow
lord! it's a bourgeois town
ooo! it's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
I'm gonna spread the news all around

tell all the colored folks to listen to me
don't try to find no home in Washington DC
cause it's a bourgeois town
ooo! it's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
gonna spread the news

Black and Proud

Indian Reservation

Young Gifted And Black

Kansas Democrats to introduce voting rights bill at special session in Topeka

By Dion Lefler
The Wichita Eagle

On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Kansas Democrats unveiled a bill they’ll introduce to force the issue of voting rights into next week’s special legislative session in Topeka.

Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau and Rep. Jim Ward, both Wichita Democrats, said they are going to force the Legislature to take action – one way or another – on changing new proof-of-citizenship requirements that have approximately 15,000 prospective Kansas voters waiting to find out if they’ll be able to cast a ballot.

The bill would essentially add a line to the existing voter-registration form allowing Kansans to prove their U.S. citizenship by swearing out an affidavit. At present, the law requires prospective voters to provide document proof, such as a birth certificate or passport.

The revised voter registration form would warn prospective voters that swearing a false statement of citizenship would be perjury and could lead to felony prosecution ...

http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/29/2970928/kansas-democrats-to-introduce.html

How Art Pope helped turn back the clock on voting rights in North Carolina

By Sue Sturgis, with research by Marion T. Johnson

... Voters cast 3.79 million ballots in North Carolina's 2010 election cycle, and only 28 cases of voter fraud were referred to district attorneys. In 2012, North Carolina voters cast nearly 7 million ballots, and only 121 alleged cases of voter fraud were found. Going back to 2007, the N.C. State Board of Elections has reported a grand total of 80 cases of double voting, three cases involving voter residency issues, and two cases of voter impersonation, which is what the state's new photo ID law aims to prevent ...

Last year, DeLancy challenged the registrations of more than 500 voters in Wake County, N.C. -- mostly people of color -- who he said were not U.S. citizens. One voter was found to have improperly registered and was stricken from the rolls, while several others requested their own removal. Of the 18 challenges that the local election board found required further investigation, all were dismissed after hundreds of hours of work by the board. A furious DeLancy stormed out of the hearing, kicking open the building's glass doors and denouncing the board as looking "stupid" ...

Pope was an important force again in the 2012 election cycle, as he, his family, and his affiliated groups spent over $2 million on state-level races, helping Republicans win supermajorities in both chambers and putting a Republican in the executive mansion. Without the GOP in power in Raleigh, legislative proposals to limit access to the ballot box -- which disproportionately affect minorities, young people, and other Democratic-leaning constituencies -- would have gone nowhere ...

http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/08/special-investigation-how-art-pope-helped-turn-bac.html