Help NAACP End Voter Suppression 14DEZ11

THERE is nothing wrong with legitimate rules and regulations to guarantee all elections are fair and to eliminate voter fraud. The laws eliminating or reducing and restricting early voting, requiring difficult to obtain state I.D. cards, restrictions on student voting are just some of the obstacles being enacted to repress voting by the elderly, the poor, minorities, the disabled and students. Sec of State Clinton has been condemning the recent election in Russia as fraudulent, but nobody from the Obama administration is moving to take direct action against states imposing restrictive and repressive voting laws. Check out this video from the NAACP. The best we can all do is pressure the federal government to have the Dept of Justice investigate and challenge new voting laws and overturn them if they are in violation of the Voting Rights Act. We can increase the pressure on the Obama administration by spreading the word about the campaign to defend voting rights and to make sure each of us and our family and friends are registered to vote. REMEMBER, DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT!!!!!

Help Stop Voter Suppression Watch Video Last week, NAACP issued a call for voting rights in the streets of New York, at the United Nations and across the nation through the media. The far right is now on the defensive about their attack on voting rights. In collaboration with NAACP, we have put together a video about the impact of the voting right attacks on communities of color. Please take a moment to watch and spread the message to everyone you know. In the rural South, many people of a certain age have no birth certificate because they were born to a midwife. For them, the barriers to getting a state issued ID without a birth certificate are tremendous. Others are dependent on rides to the polls provided by church-organized Sunday voting drives, which have been shut down in some states. In 2012, we will work with NAACP to ensure every American has the ability to vote. Across the country, community activists are joining us in that effort. As our video shows, South Carolina doctor Brenda Williams has spent countless hours and thousands of dollars helping her patients clear the financial and legal hurdles associated with satisfying the state's new strict voter ID law. Dr. Williams is a hero in her community – but she cannot do it alone. It is going to take the efforts of people like you to help strengthen our front line and ensure our right to vote in 2012 and beyond. I urge you to take this opportunity to make this movement your own and stand on the right side of history. Please take a moment to watch this story and share it with your friends. We would like to make sure that everyone has a voice! Thanks for all of your support, Robert Greenwald