Thank you for your courage back in '04. It seems that our failed public education system has produced generations of history-absent citizens, who desperately need reminded of what failure to hold all of our elected officials to account, does to democracy. Keep up the good and necessary work. I will stay tuned, and reference the hell out of this!
Greg Palast had been banging this drum for a decade or more - I think Stacey Abrams called on him to help her in Georgia to register POC to vote, although I could be with on this.
Wow! How is educating and informing people about voter supression "banging the drum". Whether it ibe Greg Palast or Stacey Abrams. Don't you believe in free and fair elections in this country?
This is a very curious comment. 'Banging the drum' because no-one was listening and Reps were just randomly striking POC off the ballot because, for example, their first name and surname was the same as another person in a different county/state with no compunction or resistance.
I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here. 'Banging the drum' is not a negative idiom, it is a very positive one. I'm also not in the US. Additionally, I got 'decade' wrong, it was actually closer to 20 years.
So yeh, banging the drum for 20 years to try to get people in the US (he was mostly based in the UK as no-one liked him the US because he asked uncomfortable questions).
Stacey Abrams retained Palast to aid with voter registration precisely because of his experience with exposing voter purges.
So, with respect, I think you misunderstood the thrust of the comment to be a negative one when it was actually positive.
Wow. Great story Seth. Glad I subscribed!!
Awesome writing Seth! Thank you🤓💯
Thank you for your courage back in '04. It seems that our failed public education system has produced generations of history-absent citizens, who desperately need reminded of what failure to hold all of our elected officials to account, does to democracy. Keep up the good and necessary work. I will stay tuned, and reference the hell out of this!
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Greg Palast had been banging this drum for a decade or more - I think Stacey Abrams called on him to help her in Georgia to register POC to vote, although I could be with on this.
Wow! How is educating and informing people about voter supression "banging the drum". Whether it ibe Greg Palast or Stacey Abrams. Don't you believe in free and fair elections in this country?
This is a very curious comment. 'Banging the drum' because no-one was listening and Reps were just randomly striking POC off the ballot because, for example, their first name and surname was the same as another person in a different county/state with no compunction or resistance.
I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here. 'Banging the drum' is not a negative idiom, it is a very positive one. I'm also not in the US. Additionally, I got 'decade' wrong, it was actually closer to 20 years.
https://www.gregpalast.com/new-york-times-reports-illegal-florida-vote-purgern-three-years-after-killing-story/
So yeh, banging the drum for 20 years to try to get people in the US (he was mostly based in the UK as no-one liked him the US because he asked uncomfortable questions).
Stacey Abrams retained Palast to aid with voter registration precisely because of his experience with exposing voter purges.
So, with respect, I think you misunderstood the thrust of the comment to be a negative one when it was actually positive.
Wrong*