by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 16, 2015 | Democracy
President Obama will make history today when he becomes the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. The visit is the latest in a series of speeches and events this week aimed at drawing attention to the need for criminal justice reform. On Monday, Obama...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 9, 2015 | Democracy
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCuDmaeDd0[/fve] People from across the nation will converge on Winston-Salem, N.C. this coming Monday to march for voting rights in the state that has come to symbolize voter suppression. “North Carolina is our Selma” is the...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 6, 2015 | Democracy
Amid a bipartisan chorus urging prison reform and an end to mass incarceration, Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley’s words are ringing awfully flat. Like many others, O’Malley urges an end to mass incarceration and more police restraint. His record as...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 2, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
We the People do not know how much money federal contractors are spending to bribe influence our Congress. What does that say about the transparency and integrity of our pay-to-play political system? For Independence Day President Obama should help Congress become...
by Richard Long | Jun 26, 2015 | Democracy, Populist Majority
It took a while, but law finally caught up to public opinion. In this morning’s historic ruling on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court came around to an idea that the public had been supportive of for years. Marriage equality is now the law of the land, and despite...
by Jacob Woocher | Jun 26, 2015 | Democracy
On the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that effectively nullified a major part of the Voting Rights Act, hundreds of local and national activists attended a rally in the Roanoke, Va. district of Rep. Bob Goodlatte to demand he take action. The...
