John Lewis (1940-2020)
John Lewis, whom we filmed in 2016, was nearly beaten to death in Selma, Alabama in 1965, so that all Americans could vote. He made history. What will WE make? And when?
Civil Rights
Rev. Joseph Echols Lowery (1921-2020)
Civil Rights leader Rev. Joseph Echols Lowery died at home, surrounded by his daughters, on Friday, March 27, at the age of 98. He did not put down his sword until his last day. It was Rev. Lowery who agreed to have Helen Butler, the Executive Director of his organization, the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda, join me as a co-plaintiff in our successful federal suit against Georgia’s GOP Sec. of State, now Governor, Brian Kemp. Sadly, this is
We Don’t Have a Working DemocracyWhat happened, how we can fix it
Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the vote theft party’s started. They’re removing voters from rolls
How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma
How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it’s fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 50 years ago
Alev Ha-Shalom, Brother Greg
Dick Gregory was a HUGE influence on my work and writings – that ability to take the darkest side of America and destroy the killers and Klansman with the deadly bullet of humor. Even while wilting from hunger (he would eat no solid food until the US left Vietnam)
Ethnic Votes Stolen in Crucial StatesHelp Fix US Election For Trump Reveals Greg Palast
Throughout the US election campaign one of The Donald’s main refrains was “this election is rigged.” Turns out this particular Trump election rallying cry wasn’t a lie. Well, not entirely
'Colonel’ behind the "caging" attack on Black votersRFK Jr.: “A felony crime" The bigger purge by same group could flip the US Senate
While the rest of the press is shocked that white North Carolina vigilantes are using racially-poisonous trickery to knock more than 6,700 Black citizens off the voter rolls
Bernie new to Civil Rights?!?!?!
Bernie new to Civil Rights?!?!?! He ran John Lewis’ SNCC office in Chicago – leading the critical fight for economic rights with Martin Luther King. If you’d read Ted Rall’s bio ”Bernie” as I told you to
Scalia's Black Beemer
It was one of our team’s weirder investigative discoveries: The recently departed Justice Antonin Scalia – alev ha shalom – in 2011, was ticketed for recklessly driving his black BMW. To his family, I offer condolences. To my readers, I offer the facts
From White Sheets to Spreadsheets
I hate to spoil a happy ending. The movie “Selma,” like this week’s commemorations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march
Dispatch from Battleground North Carolina
[Greensboro, NC] Jim Crow has risen from the crypt of Segregation. But now he’s working as Dr. James Crow, database expert. Read Greg Palast’s Election Day dispatch from Dixie, for Al Jazeera
Palast's Biggest Expose Ever – 3.5 Million Voters Threatened with Purge
Three million threatened in purge of voter rolls, The removals, which target minority voters, were begun in secret
Democracy Now: OhioWrong Ballots for Black Voters Investigation Uncovers Thousands at Risk of Ballot Loss
Several thousand African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left uncounted
Senators Demand Justice DepartmentInvestigation Into Tim Griffin, RNC 2004 Vote Caging Allegations
Sens. Kennedy and Whitehouse Send Letter to DoJ Inspector General’s Office Seeking
Steal Back Your Vote
A lot of advice we’re getting from our progressive friends is to take photos of your ballot and silly stuff like that. Well, that’s all about how to complain after they steal it. I have a better idea: Win, don’t whine. #1: Gang Vote Arrive…
They Don't Call it The "White" House for Nothing
Bush at the NAACP Convention
God lost this time. I counted: Bush mentioned God only six times in his speech to the NAACP today. The winner was ‘faith’ — which got seven mentions, though if you count “The Creator” as God, well, then the Lord tied it.
Coming in right behind God and Faith, other big mentions in the First Home Boy’s rap included: The Voting Rights Act, his family’s “commitment to civil rights,” the “death tax,” rebuilding New Orleans and “public school choice” and “soft bigotry.”
As the philosopher Aretha Franklin once said, “Who’s zoomin’ who?”
Let’s take it one point at a time.
Voting Rights Act Nailed To Burning Cross
Behind the “Delay” in Renewing Law is Scheme for Theft of ’08
White Sheets Changed for Spreadsheets
The Guardian (Guardian Title of Article: Democracy in Chains)
[New York] Don’t kid yourself. The Republican Party’s decision yesterday to “delay” the renewal of the Voting Rights Act has not a darn thing to do with objections of the Republican’s White Sheets Caucus.
Complaints by a couple of Good Ol’ Boys to legislation has never stopped the GOP leadership from rolling over dissenters.
Spies and Lies: Steal Your Data, Steal Your Vote
Drum Major Blog
There are kooks and cranks and crazies among you who think that George Bush lost the 2004 election. For example, there’s an audio blog going around with TV star Larry David reading a story called,”Kerry Won,” a chapter in a book called, Armed Madhouse. I know, because I wrote it.
How you go about jerry-rigging a democracy has a lot to do with two other, seemingly unrelated stories, in the news this week: illegal surveillance of our phone records and the new border war against immigrants.
