(2016/08/09) Fighting for your right (Voting Rights)

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. 2: Act 1: Courts Strike Down Voter Restriction Laws That Target African Americans with "Surgical Precision" - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 08-01-16

Ch. 3: Song 1: get real - the mountain firework company

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Ch. 4: Act 2: Court Throws Out North Carolina's Racist Voting Law As 'A Cure For Problems That Don't Exist!' - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date 08-01-16

Ch. 5: Song 2: How Do You Sleep? - Emily DeLoach

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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

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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

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Ch. 10: Act 5: Election integrity expert responds to the Election Justice USA report on Democratic primaries - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 8-3-16

Ch. 11: Song 5: Room For Improvement - The Tracelords

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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

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Ch. 14: Act 7: This idea must die: Election Edition - @freakonomics - Air Date 7-27-16

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Voicemails

Ch. 15: Short and long term electoral strategy - Quai from North Carolina

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

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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

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TAKE ACTION

Call Rep Goodlatte - Roanoke, VA office: [phone]; DC office: [phone]

Tweet at Rep Goodlatte - @RepGoodlatte 

Email Rep Goodlatte at [e-mail]

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.

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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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