Fair Elections

Using, protecting, and rocking the vote.

Vote Hope 2008 :6: Rep. Barbara Lee

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Jan 03, 2008

Where are the opportunities for real change in the 2008 election? Barbara Lee talks about the need to get more progressive members of Congress, and her OneVoicePAC.

Vote Hope 2008 :5: Chris Hedges

by Sarah van Gelder, Chris Hedges

posted Jan 03, 2008

Where are the opportunities for real change in the 2008 election? Chris Hedges talks about mass media and the need to address the personal and economic despair.

Vote Hope 2008 :4: Bill McKibben

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Jan 03, 2008

Where are the opportunities for real change in the 2008 election? To find out, we spoke to some grassroots organizers, national leaders, and elected officials who are working for change.

Vote Hope 2008 :3: Mark Ritchie

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Jan 03, 2008

Where are the opportunities for real change in the 2008 election? To find out, we spoke to some grassroots organizers, national leaders, and elected officials who are working for change.

Vote Hope 2008 :2: Lennox Yearwood

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Jan 03, 2008

Where are the opportunities for real change in the 2008 election? To find out, Sarah van Gelder spoke to some grassroots organizers, national leaders, and elected officials who are working for change. Here, she talked with Rev. Lennox Yearwood, of the Hip Hop Caucus.

Vote Hope 2008 :1: Cheri Honkala

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Jan 03, 2008

Where are the opportunities for real change in the 2008 election? To find out, we spoke to some grassroots organizers, national leaders, and elected officials who are working for change.

Vote Hope: Our Best Hopes for Election '08

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Nov 07, 2007

Where are the opportunities for real change in the 2008 election? To find out, we spoke to some grassroots organizers, national leaders, and elected officials who are working for change. Cheri Honkala, Lennox Yearwood, Mark Ritchie, Bill McKibben, Chris Hedges, and Barbara Lee.

Beyond Campaign Finance Reform And More

by Charlie Cray

posted Jul 29, 2007

People across the country aren't waiting for action from politicians and judges. Here are the hot spots where activists are getting corporations out of government and elections.

Common Knowledge

by Jeff Kaplan

posted Jul 29, 2007

Whether the issue is water rights, big-box stores, meddling in local politics, or the taking of citizen's lands, almost every community in the United States - if not the world - is being harmed by excessive corporate power. Strategies of resistance need to invoke the people's right to exercise democratic power over corporations and governments.

Democracy Unlimited

by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap

posted Jul 29, 2007

In Arcata, California, and the rest of Humboldt County, non-local corporations are banned from politics.

SOL :: Princeton report into voting security

by Doug Pibel

posted Dec 06, 2006

Diebold DRE voting machines are easy to subvert, and have serious security problems

Recipe for a Cooked Election

by Greg Palast

posted Aug 09, 2006

In the 2004 election, more than 3 million ballots were never counted. Palast explains where they went, but also provides an example of hopeful voting reform in New Mexico.

Democracy: the (Re)Claiming of Democracy

by Doug Pibel

posted Feb 22, 2006

In danger of losing their vote and voice, Americans are demanding a return to the founding principles.

One Easy Solution for Democracy

by Fran Korten

posted Aug 25, 2004

One Easy Solution for Democracy - In this nail-biter of an election, the third-party “spoiler” effect could be devastating. But there’s a simple solution: Instant Runoff Voting

Young Righteous - And Voting

by William Upski Wimsatt

posted May 20, 2004

Electoral politics and youth, League of Hip-hop voters, League of Young Voters, League of Pissed Off Voters, Young, Righteous - and Voting by William Upski Wimsatt,