Let's listen to a great voice telling us about the importance of voting

[mountain grammy]

A FIERY PROPHET FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND WHY WE MUST VOTE: THE REV. WILLIAM BARBER

If we ever needed to vote, we sure do need to vote now!—the Rev. Dr. William Barber II.
Election Day 2014 is on Tuesday, November 4, a little over two weeks away. This election will make a profound difference in the lives of many of our citizens. For some, it is a matter of life and death—given the refusal of some states to accept Medicaid expansion. We are all too aware of right-wing extremist efforts in many of those same states to suppress the vote, and to construct obstacles to voting.

One of the most powerful voices in the nation, fighting to mobilize a broad-based coalition of social activists to fight voter suppression, is that of the Rev. Dr. William Barber II. What is disconcerting is that with only a few exceptions, the major traditional media have managed to ignore his voice and the Moral Mondays movement he is leading—from his home base of North Carolina, to as far north as Wisconsin.

How did much of the press manage ignore 80,000 people who marched in Raleigh, North Carolina, back in February?

While the traditional media is willing to pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in memorials and tributes, journalists are far too willing to pretend that the civil rights movement was buried with Dr. King. Contrary to those who speak as if the movement ended in 1968, it is alive and growing. Blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, women and men—straight and LGBT, religious and non-religious, young and old—have come together in a breathtaking and extraordinary fusion movement, Moral Mondays, spearheaded by the Rev. William Barber, head of the North Carolina NAACP. His book about that movement, Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation, is being released by Chalice Press November 1.

One of the keystones of the Forward Together Moral Mondays Movement is voter mobilization—getting people registered and out to cast their ballots in a Moral March to the Polls. We can help to spread the word, using social media skills and tools.

More at link:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/19/1336203/-A-fiery-prophet-for-social-justice-and-for-why-we-must-vote-the-Rev-William-Barber?detail=hide

[Fred Sanders]

1. It is not the "traditional media" anymore, it is the corporate media who are wielding this toy as a shield

and a sword to keep folks from voting, keep them in fear, keep them blind and deaf and mute, keep them from getting rightfully and righteously activist, becoming insanely angry at those that would deny and suppress and denigrate the very same vote that American soldiers die overseas to bring to other nations folks, and they are hellbent on stealing one more election before the demographics overwhelm them.

[mountain grammy]

3. If they steal this election, it could be our last..

I think it's that serious. They impeach Obama, do away with Biden, who's next? Mr. Speaker. Forty years of progress wiped out with a few votes and the swipe of a pen.

[LWolf]

2. I already voted, thanks.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5687177

[mountain grammy]

4. thank you. I will also stay at home and vote.

but I fear my beautiful, purple state is about to elect a teabagger to the Senate. Heaven help us.