“Based on what I’ve seen, it pisses Black voters off,” said Linda Lewis, director of political engagement for the local chapter of the NAACP, the country’s largest civil rights organization. At that former campus in the East Waco neighborhood, 7,571 people had cast ballots in the first two weeks of early voting – more than the 5,155 who showed up in all of 2016, voting records show. Source: Too hard to vote? Fired-up Black voters are doing it anyway | Reuters
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UMaine student charged with submitting former roommate’s ballot as her own – Portland Press Herald
She added in another post: “The irony is she’s a trump supporter and they’re the ones who complain about voter fraud the most,” Suleiman wrote.
In an interview conducted via text message, Suleiman said they did not get along with Dau and the two argued over lots of issues, from garbage at the apartment to politics. Suleiman moved out near the end of September, but had already requested an absentee ballot.
After the move, Suleiman said, they called the postal service to try to have the ballot sent to the new, correct address, but it had already been delivered. Suleiman then made plans to vote in person after the town clerk advised that it was permissible in such cases.
A day after Suleiman cast a ballot in person, the clerk called back.
“A second ballot had been turned in and the signature didn’t match,” Suleiman said. The return address also used a nickname, “Evan,” instead of Suleiman’s full first name, and the handwriting was someone else’s.
“Then I kind of put two and two together and realized Alyssa had stolen it and I told them that’s what I suspected,” Suleiman said. “They immediately launched an investigation.”
Source: UMaine student charged with submitting former roommate’s ballot as her own – Portland Press Herald
Chris Paul Leads Thousands On Early Voting March in North Carolina
Before the march took place, Paul told reporters he felt a responsibility to encourage people to vote “given the magnitude of the election and everything that is going on right now.” He added that voting “is something bigger than me.” Paul had already voted early in Los Angeles and said his commitment to voting shows college students how important voting is.
Later in the day, Paul spoke to a crowd of students before leading the march.
“Y’all see the power of having all of you together,” Paul said to a crowd of almost 600 students. “Y’all can really make a difference.” After he spoke, WSSU cheerleaders gave a performance to the crowd, and Paul then led a crowd of almost 1,500 people to the Anderson Center on campus.
Source: Chris Paul Leads Thousands On Early Voting March in North Carolina
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Tanka Fund’s Regranting is Restoring Buffalo to Native Lands by Trudy Ecoffey
“The buffalo represents the people and the universe and should always be treated with respect, for was he not here before the two-legged peoples, and is he not generous in that he gives us our homes and our food? The buffalo is wise in many things, and thus we should learn from him and should always be as a relative with him.” – Oglala Lakota holy man Black Elk in The Sacred Pipe, 1953
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Dasheen Plant Could Be the Root of Caribbean Development — Repeating Islands

Daphne Ewing-Chow (Forbes) writes about the properties and multifarious benefits of dasheen. [After conducting a bit of research, I see that there is great confusion out there as to whether dasheen is known as malanga or yautía Puerto Rico. I’ll leave this to the experts!] Dasheen is among a family of root crops or “ground […]
Dasheen Plant Could Be the Root of Caribbean Development — Repeating Islands
France to impose new national lockdown as COVID-19 cases rise | TheHill
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced that France will go into a second national lockdown beginning on Friday due to the surging numbers of coronavirus cases in the country, according to a report from Reuters.
On Monday, France announced a record number of cases with over 52,000 infections recorded in a single day. Over 500 deaths due to COVID-19 were reported on Wednesday, the most since the first surge of cases in France in the spring.
Source: France to impose new national lockdown as COVID-19 cases rise | TheHill
Why Immigration Is An Issue Black Voters Should Care About in 2020
“Immigration, at its core, is really about defining this country as a white ethnostate in terms of power and privilege. And so white Europeans do not threaten that,” she said. “You don’t see ICE going around [St. Patrick’s Day parades] looking for the undocumented Irish people and trying to figure out how they can gather them up. But they will come to a Caribbean carnival. They will come to an African festival. But they won’t do that with white folks because the white people they’re not worried about.”
The Trump administration has not shied away from using immigration law to bolster its white supremacist beliefs, whether by effectively slaughtering the nation’s refugee system, allegedly referring to Haiti and African nations as “shithole” countries, or enacting a Muslim ban that Gyamfi refers to as “an African and Muslim ban at this point, that is preventing people from certain countries from coming into the United States, including Nigeria, a country with the most Black people on planet Earth.”
Source: Why Immigration Is An Issue Black Voters Should Care About in 2020
New voters surge to the polls | TheHill
More than 16 million voters who did not cast a ballot in 2016 have already voted this year, a sign that record-high enthusiasm in November’s elections will lead to an unprecedented turnout across the country. There are indications that the surge is being fueled by younger voters who have been targets of turnout operations funded by Democratic groups, and by minorities who are motivated to vote like never before, data experts keeping tabs on the early numbers say. Already this year, more than 4 million people between the ages of 18 and 29 have cast a ballot after sitting out 2016. They represent about two-thirds of all voters in that age bracket who have voted already. In states where voters can register by party, registered Democrats among those youngest voters outnumber registered Republicans by a nearly three to one margin.
PPE still lacking in nursing homes as COVID doubles down | CIDRAP (Not rounding any corner and not even catching up with needs)
The first report, published yesterday by the US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) and the Frontier Group, said that, 7 months into the pandemic, shortages of critical PPE like N95 respirators and medical gowns had worsened rather than improved. The shortages were reported to the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services by 2,981 (19.9%) of the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes; in total, the affected homes have 226,495 residents. From May to August, 46% of all nursing homes reported that they didn’t have even a week’s supply of at least one type of PPE. The dearth of supplies worsened over the summer, with three times as many facilities reporting that they had no N95s, gowns, or eye protection in late August as in mid-July.
Source: PPE still lacking in nursing homes as COVID doubles down | CIDRAP
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