Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

American Center for Voting Rights... Gone?

Justin Gilmore — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:37:45 EDT

After reading Slate, I found an article reporting that the American Center for Voting Rights has suddenly disappeared into oblivion. Perhaps the GOP has given up on the idea of intimidating poor, immigrant, and elderly voters? (Probably not) The ACVR, despite the nice Orwellian title, wanted to push the idea of a vast voter fraud conspiracy onto the American people, even though no such fraud exists. The point was to complicate the voting process as much as possible in order to discourage the above noted peoples from voting.

Although the Orwellian comparison used against the Republicans and their many efforts is almost in a stage of sterility, it unrelentingly applies. The ACVR is just a small example of this kind of false marketing.

Even worse are PR corporations like the Dolphin Group which have been a scorn on practically all progressive issues. The Dolphin Group is undemocratic, and its legality ought be questionable. Take a look at their mission statement, located on their first page, it's awfully to the point.

Student Group Gets Censored

Justin Gilmore — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:11:09 EDT

Recently, the reprographics (on-campus copy facilities) department at our college denied us of our first amendment rights by telling us that the material for a Global Warming rally we were hosting was “too political” to be printed and distributed on campus. Because our club, the Progressive Student Alliance, is a chartered club with the college, we are supposed to be allowed full access to the department so long as we do not endorse specific candidates, and/or legislation. This is common among all other clubs on campus, as Christian organizations to Surfing clubs have equal access to those functions, and are regularly allowed to print and post as they please. After we contacted the local news paper, the administration finally budged and had a meeting with us. Proceeding this was an article in the newspaper, which was interesting, as our campus authorities dubiously lied, and told the news paper that we were denied access because of time constraints, copyright issues, and other red herrings which were simply not the case. Not only had we used public domain images and student-created artwork, but we had also given the reprographics department the proper paperwork two weeks in advance. It sometimes seems like the only thing that crosses the school bureaucrats mind is that his or her job supercedes all other ethical implications.

The Most Important Political Books of our Time.

Justin Gilmore — Sun, 13 May 2007 13:20:38 EDT

Every so often I will stumble across a book which I feel is so relevant and important, that I must unrelentingly try to get others to pick it up. And, although this does not happen often, as many books come and go as quickly as pop stars from stardom to bust-- I have managed to come up on two of he most important books that I have certainly read in the last two years.

Another Shot

Justin Gilmore — Sun, 13 May 2007 02:49:19 EDT

So, this is a second attempt at creating, keeping, and updating a Campus Progress blog. I think this round will be more successful!

Anyways, hooray for me.