Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch. July 8, 2009. The people have prevailed in this battle for control of their water resources, but the larger fight still continues.
Valeria Fernández, ColorLines. April 13, 2009. How one Detroit community group is saving homes and protecting human rights over the right of a corporation to make a profit.
Patrick Levine Rose, AlterNet. November 5, 2008. An Obama volunteer from East Lansing, Michigan, describes the extraordinary organization and cooperation that help elect the 44th president.
Steven Rosenfeld, November 1, 2008. So much for McCain's claim that "the fabric of democracy" is being torn. It's only being ruffled by Republicans in battleground states.
Advancement Project , ACLU, AlterNet: PEEK. October 16, 2008. A federal judge orders Michigan's Republican Secretary of State to restore voters after ruling her 2008 voter purge broke federal voting rights law.
Scott Novakowski, Demos.org. October 7, 2008. As North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia and Missouri ask public aid recipients if they want to register to vote, thousands of new voters are added.
J. Gerald Hebert, Campaign Legal Center Blog. September 29, 2008. The ex-head of the Justice Department's Voting Section parses the GOP's recent threats to target voters who have lost homes to foreclosure.
American Civil Liberties Union, Advancement Project, September 19, 2008. Suit claims thousands may be disenfranchised in Michigan because officials did not follow the federal law governing voter purges.
Steven Rosenfeld, September 16, 2008. Obama says the GOP is continuing a historic pattern to thwart Democratic voters, while the GOP says Obama's suit is based on a false media report.
Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. June 2, 2008. Saturday's committee ruling on the Florida and Michigan primaries leaves Clinton supporters fuming.
Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. May 12, 2008. Anti-gay crusaders are deceiving voters about their strategies and intentions -- and the courts are playing along.
Wayne Barrett, Huffington Post. April 3, 2008. In both Michigan and Florida it was Republicans who fomented the move-up of primaries to dates out-of-line with the DNC calendar.
Trish, Pensito Review AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 24, 2008. Will Howard Dean cost the Democratic candidate the votes of Florida and Michigan?
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. March 18, 2008. Get the sense that the campaigns, while touting principles, are really looking at this from purely self-serving interests? I do.
Paddy, Cliff Schecter's Blog AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 7, 2008. A caucus favors Obama, and Clinton was hoping for just seating the delegates she already won in an unfair primary.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. February 14, 2008. Egomania knows no bounds and no loyalty - not even to the founding principles of democracy.
