Oct 9, 2004

Leaders of the nationwide voter registration movement are reporting that millions of new voters have registered for the Nov. 2 election, breaking records. click here for Spanish text

CASS LAKE, Minn. — Sitting in her tiny office at Leech Lake Tribal College here, Elaine Fleming ran through the get-out-the-vote (GOTV) activities she is helping to organize among the college’s students, faculty and staff.

The Twin Cities were alive with political activity the Sept. 24-26 weekend. Volunteers were doing voter registration in front of grocery stores.

LOS ANGELES — Labor history was made Sept. 30 as the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, held U.S. labor’s first-ever central labor council congress.

Presidential candidate John Kerry visited the picket line in front of the RMI Titanium plant in Niles, Ohio, Oct. 3 before he proceeded to a town hall meeting in nearby Warren. For a half hour he marched with the locked-out steelworkers, talking with them about the hardships they are going through.

George W. Bush has failed time and again to protect
women and children. Here are just a few examples of what his administration has done:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “There isn’t a waking moment when I don’t think about what we’ve done over there,” said ex-Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey. The 32-year-old North Carolina native visited New Haven last week as part of a series of speaking engagements, in hopes of revealing the facts about the war in Iraq.

NITRO, W.Va.: Veterans camp for Kerry / ORLANDO, Fla.: Teachers union leaders stump for quality public education / DENVER: State sued to count all votes / NEWPORT, Minn.: Hate – coming to a school near you / WASHINGTON: The right to choose is at stake

Young people are registering to vote in record numbers. It’s true — our vote matters.

Only a minority of the population in the U.S. actually practices its civic duty. Representative leadership in government is paramount in the struggle for real change in communities disenfranchised and oppressed.