Important News for North Carolina Voters!
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Voting and Privilege: How My Privilege Makes it Easier for Me to Vote, Even When Voting isn’t Easy
“That looked easy,” I thought, as I left a local election on a Sunday afternoon. Excited people wandered around, greeting their friends and neighbors, as they cast their votes at one of several polling stations at a local election in …
Beyond Partisan: Voting While Catholic in 2016
Image via STUDENT VOICES By Tim Colvin For many faithful Catholics and Christians of all denominations, even for many Americans who are not religious, this election has painted a very stark picture: we are forced to choose between the two …
Kids in the Presidential Campaigns: How the Front-runners Stack Up on Children’s Issues
James Steyer, CEO and founder of Common Sense Media, sent a letter Wednesday to CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC News’ Martha Raddatz imploring the moderators to place more emphasis on kids in their questions during the next presidential debate this …
Voting Is Social Work
Today, Tuesday, September 27 is National Voter Registration Day and social workers are joining celebrities, volunteers and civic-minded Americans across the country in various efforts to encourage citizens to register and exercise their right to vote.
4 Conspiracy Theories That Shouldn’t Inform Your Vote
This election has been dominated by fear ― fear of the state of the country and world as well as fear of the candidates themselves. Unfortunately, all three nominees for president are capitalizing on that fear, spreading misinformation in the …
Social Workers, Millennials, and the Future of America
September 27 is National Voter Registration Day and September is National Voter Registration Month as declared by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) which collectively promotes expanding access to elections and implementing new and innovative methods of voter …
I’m Proud to be an American: Where At Least I Know I’m Free?
Freedom is a tricky thing to tackle down. It’s full of contradictions. We like to claim the patent on freedom in the United States, but in reality we are more much more restricted in our freedom than what we tell …
NC Early Voting Restrictions Draw National Attention
Local boards throughout North Carolina are determining how to conduct this year’s election after a federal appeals court overturned much of the state’s voter restriction law last month. The law was passed in 2013 and the court determined that it …
Who is the Social Justice Warrior Fighting?
I read this blog titled What Do We Deserve? by Erin Bailey as it came across my newsfeed the other day. It understandably went pretty viral because it has a message that any decent person can support: women face sexual objectification and/or harassment that is unjust regardless of whether or …
