TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks with Executive Producer and host of Rattling the Bars Eddie Conway about prisoners’ right to vote, or lack thereof, and about the obstacles ex-prisoners face in securing their voting rights, particularly in Florida.
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Voting should be a right of every citizen.
People in prison are citizens. They should have the right to vote
Prop 17 passed!
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I overheard at work: voting is not a right but a privilege. Like, WTF!?
ðŸ•¯ï¸ WHAT COMES AFTER AMERICA
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November 3, 2020
SNIPPET:
The nightmares we live with, and their disconnect from the values we hold now are impossible to count. I was researching children in ICE detention living in cages, and their families being held in unsafe conditions and coerced into forced labor — back in the Obama days. The exploitation of forms of unfree labor continues to this day, as does the rise of oligarchy and political corruption.
Police have killed almost 900 people this year, despite a mismanaged pandemic presumably making it somewhat harder. The Flint water crisis is six years old this year, and still going. One person has been found guilty and sentenced to probation. I could go on, but you know this song: opioid crisis, inequality, lobbying, campaign finance, the two party system, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, and of course, the damn virus. And still, all these problems are just symptoms of a deeper disease, a broken political basis for our society.
Our laws have lead to an irreparable failure of the American system when it comes to the basic task of keeping the people who constitute it alive and functional and with some kind of path to a sustainable, if not improving, existence. Medical care, housing, and education are all contingent. These are the most fundamental parts of having this thing called government and ours failed these tasks aggressively, despite the brilliance and determination of even its most oppressed people pushing forward our culture to greater things.
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The successes of America, and there have been many, came not because of our form of governance but despite it. The culture – for good and ill – isn’t the constitution or the legal regime or the nation-state as recognized by other nation-states. It’s the people. It’s what we choose, believe, and imagine. Right now we choose to be constrained by a document that has manifestly failed us.
And yes, there have been efforts at positive movement using our constitutional framework, like the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. But they have been undermined and destroyed almost at birth by the perniciousness of the very flaws amendments were meant to fix. And thusly, because of the 14th, we live in a world were Exxon holds the rights meant for black folk who still struggle to vote. 🤬
It’s impossible to change any of this at a fundamental level, because it is impossible to re-write or even amend the superstructure of our laws and our government. Even if the GOP lost everything, and the Democrats suddenly became a party of reform (which they won’t), nothing could meet the global problems we face because the 😈 judiciary will destroy efforts to reform and remake ourselves at every turn.
But even before we get to the problem of the judiciary, the two party system is disconnected from the world as it is now: facing the end of the Holocene and with that, a planet that is gentle to humans. What was the most democratic system of the 18th century is a travesty of permitted corruption, unrepresentative elites, and openly bought-and-paid-for influence. It’s over, it’s done, it’s time to let it go before it kills us all.
Full article:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/11/03/what-comes-after-america/
I agree prisoners should have the right to vote. Part of rehabilitation back into society should be to encourage them to vote and consider the issues.
Donald Trump would have put an end to the Dems profit center! It is all about Power & Money! Not Serving the People!
Donald Trump is the only threat to the Government continuing its Profitable Corrupt Warmongering Power Scheme! He had to be stopped by any means!
Since you are going to be FCUKED by the Government… You might as well have the Felons Vote too! Oh Shit the Democrats are Felons!
Democrats… Republicans… Left Wing… Right Wing! They are all the SAME… there is ONLY 1 Party! The "GOVERNMENT PARTY" and they are Partying Like Hell with your Money! Bend Over… the Government is sticking the Red White and Blue Star Spangled Warmongering Weenie to YOU!
We once suffered from Criminals committing crimes, now we suffer from Psychopath Control Freak Government Agents making Laws to Control every aspect of your life and Violating the Constitution!
Blue Team or Red Team? The Jones Plantation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8Rj5xkDPk
Eddie is the man.
I DISAGREE, I’ve lived my whole life NOT BEING A FELON and not trying to be. Come on Man U can’t be a Felon n VOTE. JUST THE WAY IT IS. If that’s the case then are ya ok with felons having Firearms ?? I’m not
Can't have criminals be allowed to help elect criminals.
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