Posts

Showing posts with the label poor people

Ohio State Legislature repeals part of House Bill 194 state law that slashes time for early voting this November in half by passing replacement law dubbed Senate Bill 295 that allows some early voting but keeps provision to stop early in person voting the weekend before presidential election, Congresswoman Fudge, community activists, voting rights and Civil Rights advocates demand that weekend voting be allowed, activists say Republicans are pushing last minute state laws in Ohio to silence Black, Democratic vote for Obama in Ohio, ballot initiative to seek to repeal HB194 by Ohio voters will allegedly go forward for November general election

Image
By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( http://www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com/ ) and ( http://www.clevelandurbannews.com/ ) COLUMBUS, Ohio-The Republican controlled Ohio State Legislature passed a state law on Tues. titled Senate Bill 295 that repeals parts of a controversial election law dubbed House Bill 194 that the same group of lawmakers passed last year that restricts early voting and makes other changes, though the new law permits some early voting but keeps intact the old law's provision against it the weekend before the November general election, a measure that Democrats say should motivate Ohioans to vote to repeal HB194 at the November ballot box this year. "HB 194 was an attack on voting rights and should never have been enacted in the first place,” said U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrenvillle Hts Democrat who, though a federal lawmaker, has been in the forefront on the bi-

Organized labor, community activists, clergy, elected officials, young Dems to rally against voter suppression in Ohio before judiciary committee hearing by U.S. Senators Durbin and Brown, with testimony by Congresswoman Fudge, others, in front of Carl B. Stokes U.S. Courthouse, 801 Superior Ave. in Cleveland, Mon, May 7, rally, 8:30 am, groups to attend hearing after the rally

Image
 There is an Organized Effort to  Block the Vote  in Ohio and elsewhere in America Come Rally For Fair Voter Rights (Contacts for the rally are Larry Bresler at 216-651-2606, Debbie Kline at 216-310-7657, Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-932-3114 and Art McKoy at 217-253-4070) Monday May 7, 2012 8:30 A.M Carl Stokes Federal Courthouse Corner of Huron and Superior Ave.  (801 West Superior Ave., near Detroit Superior Bridge) Senator Dick Durbin (IL) and Sherrod Brown (OH)  will be holding a hearing as part of the judiciary committee examination of voting changes throughout the United States beginning at 9:30 am inside the courthouse with testimony by Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge and others on House Bill 194, the state law that suppresses our right to vote by slashing the time for early voting, requiring id., etc., anything to interfere with the November and other elections. HB 194 is on the November ballot to be repealed . We will rally  outside  from 8:40 am-9:2