Ranked Choice Voting Appears to Have Greatly Increased the Howie Hawkins Vote in Maine Ballot Access News

Dec 272020
 

Last month, Maine used ranked choice voting for president, the first state ever to do that.  Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee, polled slightly over 1.00% in Maine last month.  That made Maine his best state, by far.  His second highest percentage was Hawaii, with .67%, and no other state was higher than .52%. One might say that Maine is always supportive of Green Party presidential nominees, and that is true, but not to that…

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The Death Penalty’s Other Victims The Intercept

Dec 272020
 

On the day before the Trump administration killed Brandon Bernard, Shanyce Matthews sat on her deck on the north side of Milwaukee. She wore brown sheepskin boots and a bright green T-shirt printed with the word “Love” in loopy cursive below two photographs. One showed Matthews, elegant and demure in a black and white headscarf. The other showed her partner, Orlando Hall. Hall had been executed less than three weeks earlier, just before midnight on November…

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Housing Activists Are Fighting Evictions In The Streets PopularResistance.Org

Dec 272020
 

Philadelphia is facing a housing crisis with little help from the Democratic city council, mayor, or governor. In the city, 5,700 people are currently unhoused. Almost a thousand sleep on the streets on a given night. But more than that, this year has already seen 4,400 evictions filed in Philly courts. Another 2,000 renters are facing the very real threat of eviction and becoming part of the unhoused. This multifaceted crisis of housing is taking place as the…

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