(Editor’s Note: Ari Berman is a friend of Blog for Iowa, and he passed along this note which may be of interest to readers).
Dear Friends,
I wanted to pass on a few timely new stories that I thought would be of interest:
The legal challenges to North Carolina’s sweeping new voting restrictions
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175722/north-carolinas-sweeping-voter-suppression-law-challenged-court
The key factors that will decide the fate of voting rights in NC and nationally
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175345/north-carolina-republicans-push-harsh-new-voter-id-law
And a new story in the latest issue of The Nation about the importance of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on contemporary civil rights organizing. As I write in the new piece, “so many of the issues that gave rise to the March on Washington fifty years ago remain unfulfilled or under siege today.”
http://www.thenation.com/article/175757/time-march-washington-again
Thanks for reading
-Ari