Sentences with phrase «voting rights campaign»

Selma tells the story of the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama.

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The four parties in the center - right coalition agreed during the campaign that the leader of the party that won the most votes would head a government.

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

Security chiefs, after attacks by Islamist militants, have already announced extra police for patrolling key areas on voting day on Sunday when a centrist politician meets a veteran from the far - right after a turbulent and at times angry campaign.

Following an election campaign that featured immigration as a hot topic, the vote was seen as test of strength for far - right parties, such as Fratelli d'Italia and Lega, that have campaigned on an anti-immigration stance.

If I fought against the right of atheists to campaign for atheist candidates, then why should I expect anything less than a counterattack against my own voting rights as a Christian?

Boehner is manipulative and a hypocrite — actually helping the oil companies by handing out their campaign checks for them right there on the house floor (you couldn't make this up) before a related vote.

He had marched, he had picketed, he had campaigned, he had voted the right way.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

But while I agree with them on many economic policies, I flatly refuse to vote for anyone in bed with the fundamentalists who are campaigning to take away the rights of their fellow citizens.

Though evangelical women have long been involved in political activism, including helping to lead the temperance movement and campaigning for and against women's right to vote, seeking the White House is a more recent and dramatic step.

The religious right sallied forth to slay the secular - humanist infidels, and GOP campaign managers consulted polls and tallied the votes smiling.

Our campaign action this week was successful as the UN Human Rights Council voted on 26 June to start drafting a treaty on stopping human rights abuses by transnational corporaRights Council voted on 26 June to start drafting a treaty on stopping human rights abuses by transnational corporarights abuses by transnational corporations.

Only 16 per cent of people with learning disabilities are exercising their right to vote, it has been claimed, as a campaign is launched to make disabled people's votes count.

Twitter said that during the election campaign, it removed tweets «that were attempting to suppress or otherwise interfere with the exercise of voting rights, including the right to have a vote counted, by circulating intentionally misleading information.»

The centre - right parties lost more than half of their votes (about nine millions), even though Berlusconi managed a spectacular comeback by leading an unapologetic campaign.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

Amid calls for passing the progressive agenda that ranges from protections for health care, abortion rights and the public financing of campaigns, Klein and company reiterated on Monday votes should be indeed be held.

By Nancy Platts Trade unions have often been at the forefront of demands for a better democracy for working people, whether it was the Chartists pushing for the right to vote in the 19th century to the Scottish TUC's role campaigning for a Scottish parliament two decades ago.

Toward the end of a Dave Weigel piece in Slate on Michele Bachmann's current campaign speech (you'll be shocked to hear that she says she was right to vote against a debt ceiling - increase), we get a quick look at one way tablet computers can play into modern field organizing: The...

He emailed his campaign supporters about a voting rights rally that «our friends» at Empire State Indivisible participated in this weekend.

Brandon Lorenz, a Human Rights Campaign spokesperson, placed the blame for the failure of the override vote squarely on Christie.

«The lawsuit was not filed on behalf of the campaign, but we are aware of it and strongly support its goal of ensuring the right to vote is not unduly burdened,» Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.

It's not about voter's rights, it's about letting an unfair election stand (i.e. counting votes in an election where they didn't even campaign.)

Bachus» signature to the letter is noteworthy because he has an anti-gay voting record in Congress and in recent years has consistently scored a «0» on the Human Rights Campaign's congressional scorecard.

There is also clearly an overwhelmingly strong case for forms of direct action protest in the case of disenfranchisement (campaigns for the vote, for US civil rights, against apartheid South Africa; for independence from Empire, etc).

At the same time, Stewart - Cousins said the Senate hasn't been able to take up issues like campaign finance reform, voting rights and women's rights.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

I am not inclined to vote for you if you pander to the far right and the large corporate interests in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries during your campaign.

«Maryland lawmakers came to the right conclusion and voted to send the death penalty where it belongs - into the dustbin of history,» said Brian Evans, acting director of the organisation's death penalty abolition campaign.

The IDC had previously called for votes on key liberal issues in the Senate through a «call the roll» campaign — indicating that even with a Democratic majority, the votes on concerns like abortion rights and campaign finance reform may not be there.

Earlier, Mr Clegg told media and supporters outside the Liberal Democrats» Westminster HQ that the party with the most seats and the most votes has the «first right» to try to form a government, as he had repeated throughout the campaign.

Burnham recalls that Gould apologised for failing to win the vote and said that Labour was right to campaign against the bill.

It was billed as «The Democratic Renewal Rally», and jointly put on by — from right to left — Progress, the Fabian Society and Compass, and the Vote For A Change campaign, currently doing their best to make headway on getting the UK a more proportional voting system.

A con - con will also be a way to enshrine certain protections in the law, including safeguarding voting rights, implementing campaign finance reform and protecting against sexual and gender discrimination.

«What should be simple, like democracy reforms, massive voting rights, campaign finance reform.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

The Feingold campaign sent a fundraising email under Silverman's name, in which she calls the Democrat a «progressive rock star» and «one of the very few totally righteous politicians who has always voted on the right side of history.»

At the Greater New York gala of the Human Rights Campaign — the United States» largest LGBTQ civil rights organization — Gillibrand said that as the year progresses, elected officials, LGBTQ advocates and supporters can advocate, organize and vote to guarantee protection of LGBTQ rRights Campaign — the United States» largest LGBTQ civil rights organization — Gillibrand said that as the year progresses, elected officials, LGBTQ advocates and supporters can advocate, organize and vote to guarantee protection of LGBTQ rrights organization — Gillibrand said that as the year progresses, elected officials, LGBTQ advocates and supporters can advocate, organize and vote to guarantee protection of LGBTQ rightsrights.

A shambolic campaign in the Scottish parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 % of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral election (when he won 1.4 % of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could only get him so far.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, a conservative who has received Tea Party support, sent out campaign mailers over the past month accusing Hanna of voting against Second Amendment rights.

During the referendum campaign, I met a number of people who voted Remain who told me they were in favour of immigration, but wanted to see «the right sort of immigration.»

With polls showing today's California primary as a neck - and - neck fight, Clinton battled to the end for every vote and even appealed to rival Sanders to do the «right thing» and abandon his campaign.

Schreibman's television advertisement campaign targeted senior citizens and women with promises to protect Medicare and women's rights while leveling criticism against Gibson's votes in line with Republican legislation that included funding cuts for Planned Parenthood and measures that would change the way Medicare is operated.

The Swing The Vote campaign is doing everything right by trying to empower young people to make their voices heard and take part in the political process.

«Let's think about it again and let's vote again with the right information — not with the information you've got around the Brexit campaign.

The generational approach falls flat — young people don't vote much in low - turnout midterm primaries, lol, and anyway aren't necessarily clamoring for one of their own, and Maloney is not the right target for a «change» campaign.

«Whether it's voting to give free college tuition to illegals or allowing his campaign to be completely taken over by groups pushing for the passage of legislation that would give illegals the right to vote in our elections and serve on our juries, Todd Kaminsky has consistently put the «rights» of illegal immigrants ahead of the rights of law - abiding Long Island taxpayers and their families.