North Dakota Tribes **Rockin The Vote!** In Other States Too! Donations needed...

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Last edited Sun Nov 4, 2018, 11:30 PM - Edit history (1)

For those that dont know how North Dakota has attempted to suppress Native American votes and WHY they're doing it:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/north-dakotas-racist-voter-id-law-is-already-backfiring

One of the groups who works to protect and enable Native American votes, Fourdirections are working their butts off, to get all the various tribes' members the ability to vote and to get them to the polls. Some details are here in their twitter feed.

Fourdirections are providing FREE ID's to members who have residential addresses, but have only their old PO box ID's. They've implemented the idea, to create reservation addresses, and assign them on the spot, now, and at the polls, to the many members who dont have one. In addition, they are mobilizing and will transport all eligible voters who need rides to the polls.

We need ND senator Heitkamp to keep this seat, and she needs the tribal vote to win. Her seat is crucial, even if we dont win the senate this election, as it could help us win a majority in 2020.

AND Fourdirections are also helping to physically get tribal voters to the polls in other states, like Arizona. Our senate candidate has a very slim lead in Arizona, so every vote is crucial.

Here's their Crowdpac donation page (read the updates- it's promising):

https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/388864/take-back-the-senate-in-2018-by-getting-native-americans-to-the-polls?ref_code=carousel&source_code=fourdirections

Edit: They now have a Paypal link on their website, for those that prefer to use PP, (and you can include a short note with your donation):

http://www.fourdirectionsvote.com/donation/

They need donations to keep their efforts going. Gas for rides to polling places, meals for volunteers, supplies for ID cards & letters, etc.

If, like me, you're angry at the horrible injustices our country has, and STILL is, perpetrating against Native Americans, here's your chance to stand with them in their fight to be heard- DONATE!

[panader0]

1. Recommended

[Cha]

2. KR!!

[sheshe2]

3. Brava!

Go ND. Go NA.

PS Welcome to DU, OAU!

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10. Thanks sheshe2, glad to have found this site :) nt

[libdem4life]

4. Just read this...maybe an option?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211360794

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11. Thanks libdem :) someone beat me to it, (was on a break), but posted anyway. nt

[2naSalit]

5. K&R

Welcome to DU!

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12. LOL, thanks 2na, :D I bow to your creative genius. nt

[2naSalit]

14. Thanks for posting this info!

I live in the next state over, we have our voting problems on reservations too but not that bad. My Indian friends matter to me and I wanted to do something, this gave me a way to help in a small way but offer help none the less. Been spreading the word about this campaign. I was able to donate $25 bucks so I feel like I was able to buy a couple gallons of gas or something.

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21. Glad to hear you were able to donate :) You know, that's how Bernie raised his millions. $10 here

and $10 there, accross the country. Thanks for spreading the word! I wonder if Rachel will have OJ Semans, from Four Directions, on her show tonight, for an update? She had him on last week. Regardless, there is an excellent chance that, with with the money they are raising, they will be a force in this election, and in 2020 as well. There is a great Time magazine article on them from a couple of days ago. I will find and post the link.

[grantcart]

6. Kick

[Duppers]

7. K & R

[bobbieinok]

8. Donated! Thanks for info! This ND vote suppression is appalling!

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13. I agree. When I was little, after watching movies like Little Big Man, I would cry and scream

inside my head, at the horrendous attrocities committed against Native Americans. I used to fantazize that I could somehow avenge them. Then I grew up, got busy, and never pursued it. Now, in this limited exercise, I hope I can motivate others to stand up, and say, HELL YES! WE CARE and THANK-YOU! Go get 'em!

[Hortensis]

15. :) We do care. It's a shame that most Americans,

excepting some groups regarding the last 5 centuries here on this continent, have no idea what their ancestors went through. Horrendous atrocities were common to the human condition for many hundreds of thousands of years.

But now they're uncommon over most of the planet and deplored everywhere.

Many reasons contribute to that stupendous, magnificent advance (including far greater amounts of energy availability leading to tremendous advances in wellbeing), but the development of humanism, the idea that individual people have value and rights, is perhaps the greatest.

In the west, belief in the rights of man developed and became dominant with the Age of Reason/Enlightenment and was intrinsic to the development and principles of western liberal democracies.

We do advance, even if not all believe and perhaps a third of humanity always has to be dragged along kicking and screaming.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Declaration of Independence

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ~ Molly Ivins

And one guess which people gave birth to those principles and have always been fighting to extend them?

Proud to be liberal.

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18. Hortensis, thanks for the thoughtful reply, question for you... :)

Are you a Winston Churchill fan? What do you think of this excert from a 1941 speech:

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

In order to follow this advice, should we now take action? Thoughts?

[Hortensis]

23. :) Should we take action by voting in the election on Tuesday?

Absolutely! After all, going and voting is how citizens of democracies stand and fight for their convictions.

I do love that quote for those people in the middle of a devastating war, Onward. Churchill was, of course, trying to strengthen backbones in terrifying times and to fire up the conviction needed to fight as one against the enemy. He was also a conservative leader who understand that coming together in honor and good sense was necessary for victory. Imagine! He was also a progressive conservative.

Goodness knows we desperately need more of all that, but how would Churchill fare on Twitter and Facebook today, reach people who refused to watch anything but Fox? Whatever happens Tuesday, the right's authoritarian coalition will be just as determined to defeat us Wednesday, and just as vicious and immoral in tactics. We no longer all gather around our radios each night as a giant captive audience, but somehow more of us need to become stronger in our convictions and principles.

A growing right-wing extremism that is incompatible with the functioning of representative democracies threatens to destroy ours. To win, we must rebuild the bipartisan mainstream majority that for over 70 years held stable against extremism from both sides.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill

This one's my favorite, though, Onward, from a man who sought conviction even n his pudding.

“Take this pudding away—it has no theme!”

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24. Dear Prof Hortensis...

I'll consider bringing the bipartisan pudding back...if some sanity is restored in our country...After the election.

[Hortensis]

25. You mentioned the election! Believe it or not, I'd actually

forgotten it for a while. Deep breath.

May your wishes come true.

[iluvtennis]

9. Thanks for the link. Did a donation just now. nt

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28. Thanks, iluv :)

[lunasun]

16. Kick & Donate

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17. Kick & Rec - C'mon people, let's work together to help them, help all of us... nt

[PandoraAwakened]

19. Be the Wave that Drowns Voter Suppression

From the desk of: The American M.O.B. (Majority Opinion Blowback)

"My American M.O.B. over the GOP's Russian Mob any day, any time...Let's roll!"


Onward AND Upward: Just popped off a donation at the Crowdpac link you gave after reading your response to what I wrote about my full-day ordeal with "exact match signature" bullshit that became my "mad as hell and not going to take it anymore" moment: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211362850

Regarding all this voter suppression crap, I say to the Rethugs, "Oh, you're on!" May they reap the winds of blowback.

However small or large an amount everyone can donate to push back hard on these assholes, you need to do this RIGHT NOW...literally, RIGHT NOW. Just click the Crowdpac link in the above article and do it. Less than a minute, done and done.

Then, you need to kick and rec to the top every DU story you see about voter suppression shenanigans and post O&A's link for donations because this is the most urgent thing that is going down as the clock is running out. And while you're at it, kick it out to the Twittersphere and FB too.

Tick-tock...only 2 more days and our Native American brothers and sisters need you RIGHT NOW to help wash away the Repugnants' toxic red tide with a giant blue tsunami. Just do it...make it roll and send that wave crashing down hard!

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20. LOL! Thanks, Pandora. Another woman of action! I am NOT goin down without

putin up a major fight! The Orange Turdnado & his enablers MUST be stopped.

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22. Our donations are funding Young NA's who are taking ACTION! 11-02-18 Time magazine article...

about their efforts...and the effect on some of their high school and college kids.

North Dakota’s Voter ID Law Disproportionately Affects Native Americans. Here’s How They’re Mobilizing to Fight It

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OJ Semans has been driving nearly a thousand miles through North Dakota Indian Country to mobilize voters and troubleshoot voting hurdles in the final days before the 2018 midterm elections.

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Semans and his wife, Barb — both enrolled members of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota — have been visiting the Standing Rock, Spirit Lake and Turtle Mountain reservations in North Dakota to set up phone banks, prepare maps and coordinate with tribal leaders who are scrambling to print identification cards and assign street addresses to residents who have never had one. On Tuesday, they will join more than 100 people in Turtle Mountain, knocking on doors and driving people to and from the polls to vote, aiming to turn out 3,000 people on the reservation.

“You can only push somebody so far before they have to start pushing back,” says Semans, the co-executive director of Four Directions, a group that promotes voting access for Native Americans and is currently organizing on the ground in Arizona, Nevada, Utah and North Dakota, employing upwards of 800 people for get-out-the-vote efforts on Election Day. “We are going to warrior up. We are going to go to the polls, and we are going to make sure North Dakota and every other state that natives are in are aware we are here.”

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...No matter how they tried to frame it, it’s always been about suppressing the native vote,” Semans says. “But you look at the shining light coming out of this, it’s students standing up for what their parents and grandparents fought for. That’s something to be proud of.”

http://time.com/5442434/north-dakota-voting-law-native-american-activism/

[NastyRiffraff]

26. Donated!

Thanks for the info, OAU. I hope the Native Americans hand the Republicans a HUGE embarrassment.

[MLAA]

27. Thanks for posting

I contributed just now, no doubt they need every dime they can get for this good work.