5.04 legislative and electoral issues

Abolishing the Death Penalty in New Mexico: Lessons Learned in a Long Campaign

Justice for Troy Davis Protester
Authors: Viki Elkey

Summary:

Long term organizing, a focus on anti-death penalty families, and the exonerees made the difference.

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Social Media Fueling Moldovan Protests

Candlelight vigil protesting election fraud in Moldova. Photo, Sibiu, Moldova, April 7, 2009, Aurelian Sandulescu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/43008843@N00/3422186580/in/set-72157616475654208
Authors: Daniel Bennett

Summary:

Countering perceived election fraud, despite zero coverage by national media.

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Uprooting the System: Reflections on the Strategic Use of People Power

Protester against corporate globalization and patenting seed varieties, Seattle WTO meeting, November 1999 Photo: Spinnerin via Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ame/162825118/
Authors: David Solnit

Summary:

We need to articulate people-power-based strategies or folks will de-mobilize every election cycle.

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Long-Awaited Change Comes to El Salvador

Voter in El Salvador
Authors: Lisa Fuller

Summary:

This was unlike any other election since the end of the civil war in 1992: never before had the FMLN maintained such a steady lead in the opinion polls, and never before had the US government so thoroughly sought to remove its influence from Salvadoran internal politics.

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Top Ten Reasons to Support the US National Health Insurance Act - Expanded & Improved Medicare for All

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A Disability Rights Agenda: An Open Letter to President Obama

Needles
Authors: Andrew J. Imparato

Summary:

No decisions about us without us.

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Single-Payer Not-For-Profit Health Care For All: A Step Toward Eliminating Poverty

Health Budget chart
Authors: Ethel Long-Scott

Summary:

Remove the profit incentive from denying care.

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Preventing Domestic Violence: Policy Recommendations for the Next US Administration

Authors: Family Violence Protection Fund

Summary:

Agitation for education, prevention, and intervention.

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Zimbabwe's Health Crisis Explodes: Is Democracy a Dream Deferred?

Zimbabwean Poster
Authors: Imani Countess

Summary:

A shaky coalition government tries to rescue the country from collapse.

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US Workers Have Had Enough: A Call for Labor to Regain its Defiant Voice

Vermont, December 2008. Participants in the nationwide People's Bailout Week of Action, sponsored by Jobs with Justice. photo: JOBS WITH JUSTICE
Authors: Bill Fletcher Jr.

Summary:

A social justice movement cannot
always play by the rules, but has to call
upon its members and supporters to
make their voices heard — publicly
and defiantly.

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