Category: Civil Rights
- 08/21/12 Maddow: Ohio Becomes Front Line in Fight for Voting Rights MSNBC on the suspension of two Board of Elections officials for supporting weekend voting hours.
- 08/21/12 With Voter Disenfranchisement on the Rise, an AFSCME Sister Fights Back Colorado’s Josette Jaramillo isn’t going to let unjust laws keep people from voting.
- 08/20/12 Ohioans Stand Up for Democracy in Protest over Suspended County Elections Officials Elections officials are punished by Republican Secretary of State for supporting weekend early voting hours.
- 08/16/12 Democracy Takes a Step Backward in Pennsylvania Judge rejects challenge to state law requiring voters to present identification to cast a ballot.
- 08/06/12 Michigan ‘Local Dictators’ Law Will Go On Ballot for Citizen Vote AFSCME-led coalition pushes for 200,000 petition signers’ voices to be heard.
- 08/01/12 Remembering a Leader of the Memphis Sanitation Strike Grieving the loss of Joe Warren, a champion in the civil rights and labor movements.
- 07/20/12 Fighting Back Against ‘Local Dictators’ in Michigan State Supreme Court will hear arguments on ballot access from both sides on July 25.
- 06/29/12 Muskogee City Employees Win Back Collective Bargaining Rights City council restores rights that were stripped away last spring.
- 06/15/12 Michigan to Vote on Anti-Worker ‘Dictator’ Law, Union Rights Amendment Measures to repeal Public Act 4, protect collective bargaining rights to be on November ballot.
- 05/09/12 Marriage Equality Matters for Workers President Obama endorses same-sex marriage to level the playing field for LGBT working families.
