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Voting in a Culture of Occupation: An Interview with Derrick Jensen One of the things that I want to say about this that I haven't yet said is that a two party dictatorship is much smarter than a one party dictatorship. If you really want to control someone, what you do is you give them the illusion of choice. Then they perceive themselves as being free, and there's nobody more enslaved than the slave who doesn't even know that he or she is enslaved. One of the things the Nazis did......
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 5:40pm PDT
Send an Anti-War message to Washington 
Send an Anti-War message to Washington...
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 5:14pm PDT
Racism Watch Denounces Race-Based Voter Intimidation 2004 Racism Watch Denounces Race-Based Voter Intimidation
and IRS Attack on NAACP
Accuses John Ashcroft of Partisan Support of Intimidation
Efforts
Calls for Blacks to Rise Up, Challenge and Defeat It...
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 3:10pm PDT
NAACP Faces IRS Investigation For Criticizing Bush's Policies The Internal Revenue Service has threatened to revoke the NAACP's tax-exempt status because the civil rights group's chairman, Julian Bond, "condemned the administration policies of George W. Bush" during a speech this summer, according to documents the group provided yesterday....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 11:03pm PDT
A Look at Lawsuits, Voting Problems Many states are facing legal challenges over possible voting problems Nov. 2. A look at some of the developments Thursday:...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:20pm PDT
Salem college students say their registrations were switched SALEM, Ore. - Dozens of Salem-area college students say they unknowingly registered to vote as Republicans this month after signing what they thought were petitions to bring down car insurance rates....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 8:14pm PDT
Why the Afghan Election Has No Credibility. The Afghan election has no credibility for the simple fact that instead of counting the ballots at the precincts where the Afghan people voted the organizers of the election - the U.S. government - decided to do what they did in the Batista election in Cuba prior to the Cuban revolution. They decided to move the ballot boxes to Kabul citing the need for secure counting....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 6:46pm PDT
Outta here in '05? <br>If Bush is re-elected, some Americans may leave the country. A growing number of people have gone beyond the Election 2004 water-cooler talk -- “Well, there’s always Canada!” – to make specific plans to leave the country. Though a mass exodus after November third remains unlikely, these potential expats represent a trend of people who see “American values” as a depreciating currency....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 6:29pm PDT
Richie Robb: Republican Elector From West Virginia Says He Won't Vote For Bush If President Bush wins West Virginia, one of the state's five Republican electors says he might not vote for Bush to protest the president's economic and foreign policies....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 3:44pm PDT
Fun with voters in Ohio 
Voters in Lake County, Ohio received the following in their mail recently....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 1:34pm PDT
‘Smoking e-mail’ implicates Jeb Bush in vote suppression The Sarasota Herald Tribune obtained a “smoking e-mail” proving that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was “personally involved” in ramrodding a new voter purge list for the 2004 election, even though the data firm that prepared it warned of its many “flaws.”
In an exchange of e-mails last May 4, Jeff Long of the Florida Secretary of State’s office wrote that the firm “recommended to the Gov. that they ‘pull the plug’ on the CVDB (Central Voter Database) primarily because they weren’t comfortable with...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:41am PDT
Republicans marshal “poll watchers” to suppress working class vote The Republican Party has announced plans to place thousands of recruits in polling places in many closely contested states on Election Day. These so-called “poll watchers” will be tasked with challenging the credentials of would-be voters in predominantly Democratic urban centers....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:40am PDT
Secret Document Suggests GOP Preparing to Challenge Black Vote in Florida Investigative reporter Greg Palast exposes a secret document within the Republican Party in Florida that contains nearly 1,900 names and addresses of voters in the predominantly black and Democratic areas of Jacksonville. The so-called "caging list" could be used to block and harass African-American voters....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:15am PDT
A letter in the interest of the America we love 
A letter in the interest of the America we love...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 5:33am PDT
Voters still without ballots in a jam Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore said she had mailed out 128,000 ballots through Monday. Requests made through Sunday have been taken care of and about 7,000 are being mailed out each day, she said.
Hood's cheery optimism wasn't shared by party officials or those worried that they won't get their ballots soon enough to mail them back to arrive before Tuesday's 7 p.m. deadline. They spoke darkly of election office phones that constantly ring busy, questions that go unanswered, sample ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:30pm PDT
Absentee ballots 'lost' in Florida Nearly 58,000 absentee ballots for the US presidential election may never have reached Florida's Broward County voters, who had requested them more than two weeks ago, election officials said.
State police are investigating the matter, they said.
Hundreds of people have called the county elections office to complain that they never got their ballots. The phone system was so overwhelmed some frustrated voters could not get through....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:26pm PDT
Their dirty tricks to disenfranchise voters AN OFFHAND remark that George W. Bush made during the second presidential debate told the whole story. When asked whether he’d decided on any new appointees for Supreme Court, Bush joked that he hadn’t “picked anybody yet. Plus, I want them all voting for me.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 7:26pm PDT
Bush Campaign Comes Out for Kerry Yes, Bush Can, an independent group dedicated to communicating Bush
policies directly to the public, has abandoned its campaign and is
officially endorsing John Kerry for President....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 6:50pm PDT
Eminem joins the black bloc in anti-Bush video! Eminem's new video to his song 'Mosh' sees him join the black bloc and storm some grand building. Once inside, however, the bloc forms an orderly queue to register to vote!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 7:13am PDT
Making Votes Count: Is a Theft of the 2004 Election Already Underway? We speak with New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen about voter suppression and fraud in the 2004 election. From U.S. soldiers being told to use non-secret ballots to the Pentagon counting the votes of the military and U.S. citizens living abroad. From partisan secretaries of state overseeing the election to Homeland Security preventing new U.S. citizens from registering and much more....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 6:25am PDT
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