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From Color of Change’s site: On New Year’s Eve, Oscar Grant was shot execution-style by a transit police officer in Oakland, California. He was shot in the back while face-down on a subway platform, unarmed and posing no threat. Twelve days later–despite several videos showing what happened–the officer who killed Grant hasn’t been arrested, charged,…

With long lines all over the country, the Voter Suppression Wiki is issuing another action alert with a reminder that as long as you’re in line when the polls close, you can still vote. “Voters who are in line before their local polling place closes must be allowed to vote,” says Lillie Coney of EPIC…

Last-minute strategies to reduce voter suppression Audio available here The Voter Suppression Wiki’s Workshop on Last-minute strategies to reduce voter suppression identified several major opportunities to protect voting rights during the week of the election. While election officials, campaigns, and non-partisan organizations have all made major effort to inform voters, there is still a significant…

(original draft 10/6, revised 10/7) also posted on Pam’s House Blend and Oxdown Gazette Executive summary Help write an open letter to the Presidential candidates asking them to explain their support for the bailout during their debate on domestic policy.  Using the collaborative writing tool at MixedInk, you can rate different versions of the letter,…

Jordy Yager reports in The HIll: The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill. As a result, some constituents may get a ‘try back at a later time’ response if they use the House website…

“Now is the time for Congress to come together again and vote on a real, comprehensive plan that will solve the crisis while still protecting the taxpayers and restarting our economic growth.  I am prepared to stay here and in session as long as it takes, and I know many of my colleagues in Congress…

The No blank check for Wall Street Facebook group is up over 500 people — excellent progress given the paucity of links!   Depending on the agreement of the bailout, and reactions to it on Monday, we may well try to ramp up the wall-writing campaign.   So it’s worth some time thinking about how else we…

Just a quick note: I’ve set up a couple of email lists for No blank check for Wall Street; – announcements (low-volume): http://groups.google.com/group/nbc4ws-announce – discussion (potentially high-volume as we get larger): http://groups.google.com/group/nbc4ws-discuss please join, and let your friends know!

DRAFT!  Work in progress Originally written August 2 Most recently revised September 22 Originally written as a response to Chris Bowers OpenLeft post The Myth Of The Non-Diverse Netroots; please see the quantitative debate there.   There are a lot of additional observations and references in my Gender, race, age, and power in online discussions,…