Image by Getty Images via @daylifeA coalition of civil rights organizations are taking aim at political and legislative voter suppression efforts which, they say, create a recipe for massive disenfranchisement of minorities and youth in the 2012 election.
At a news conference Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the coalition led by Rainbow PUSH and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said it was seeking a meeting with the Justice Department to determine how it will address challenges to a fundamentally American right.
“It’s a strange setting for me, having been in Selma in 1965 fighting for the right to vote,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, noting that after the civil rights movement fought and won battles over challenges to voting on the basis of race, gender and poverty, the movement now finds itself fighting to stave off the reversal of those victories. CONTINUE....
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