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Thousands of Students March 7 Miles To Vote

By: Nicole Belle on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 7:15 PM - PST

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Burnt Orange Report:

Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.
Prairie View A&M students organized to protest the decision, because they felt it hindered their ability to vote. For background, Prairie View A&M is one of Texas’ historically Black universities. It has a very different demographic feel than the rest of the county. There has been a long history of dispute over what the students feel is disenfranchisement. There was a lot of outrage in 2006, when students felt they were unfairly denied the right to vote when their registrations somehow did not get processed.
According to an article in today’s Houston Chronicle:

Waller County has faced numerous lawsuits involving voting rights in the past 30 years and remains under investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s Office based on complaints by local black leaders. Those allegations, concerning the November 2006 general election, related to voting machine failures, inadequate staffing and long delays for voting results.

The article adds,

“I was angry after registering to vote in the 2006 election only to be turned away at the voting booth,” said sophomore Dee Dee Williams.

So what are the students doing?
1000 students, along with an additional 1000 friends and supporters, are this morning walking the 7.3 miles between Prairie View and Hempstead in order to vote today. According to the piece I saw on the news (there’s no video up, so I can’t link to it), the students plan to all vote today. There are only 2 machines available at the courthouse for early voting, so they hope to tie them up all day and into the night.

I love stories like this. In the face of an obvious ploy to suppress the vote, these young people stood up for their rights and showed that they will not be cowed. Republicans should be worried, because this is a committed electorate. Crooks and liars

And ya'll wonder why Michelle Obama said that this was the first time she was really proud of her country.Ya'll KNOW what's up. Ya'll KNOW what the fuck is up. So don't fucking play. Don't try to pull the hypocrisy. CAUSE WE SEE THROUGH IT! AND WE WON'T TAKE IT NO MORE!!!WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Comments

[cimmerians.livejournal.com]

Now, about your *tone*...

::runs::

Thanks for posting about this--I really can't love this enough :-)

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Now, about your *tone*...

LOL! I had to spread the word! I am soooooo happy I could burst!

[hematopoetic.livejournal.com]

Great icon.

[cimmerians.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Please feel free to snag, if you wish :-)

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Last night I was watching the Independent Lens documentary about American towns which had ethinically cleansed their black populations, sometimes less than 100 years ago. This was when I first saw the Michelle Obama crap. Come on, America, you know what she means.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Of course they fucking know! They don't want it brought up though. Would shatter all that nonsense about equality that they keep spouting.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Goddam...THIS is what firing up the youth of this country nets. This is what I've been wanting politicians to do since Clinton talked to the kids at MTV's Rock The Vote back in the 90's. They were engaged, they voted. Since then, nothing. Finally, we have another candidate that's speaking to the young people.

Okay, Barack, time to go to MTV!!!

In the beautiful words of Heather Small: "What have you done today to make you feel proud?"

[hematopoetic.livejournal.com]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!