90 Second Video: Prepare For Election Day. Protect Your Rights

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 12:54 AM PST

2008/11/03 · 00:54

This is a 90 second video with last-minute strategies to weather election day and protect your vote. It includes election protection phone numbers, day-before advice, what to bring on election day and ways to pass the time in line, all set to a powerful soundtrack.

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 10:20 AM PDT

2008/10/28 · 10:20

Media Temple has failed for both Baratunde.com and JackandJillPolitics.com, but my people at DailyKos are coming through.

Things are looking good for Obama, and some folks are getting overconfident. It's hard not to with daily signs of the McCain campaign's implosion.

But now is not the time to rest. It's the time to press on and finish strong. Donate, phonebank and more. See below the jump for some motivational videos and specific actions including an Obama fundraising comedy show at Gotham Comedy Club in NYC

baratunde

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Monday October 20, 2008 · 12:43 PM PDT

2008/10/20 · 12:43

cross-posted to jack and jill politics

Thirty minutes ago, I heard about this "I'm Joe The Plumber" 30 second video contest sponsored by the McCain campaign. Not that we're in the middle of two wars and a massive economic crisis or anything.

Considering the farce of Joe and the downright silliness of McCain's campaign, I just had to submit my own video.

baratunde

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 9:47 AM PDT

2008/10/13 · 09:47

Here's the simple version:

I have no money but have been writing, blogging, calling and canvassing my butt off for Obama for months. The latest racial hatred stirred up by McCain-Palin should disqualify them both from holding their current offices, much less ascending to the White House. At the same time, we need to build a new, green economy to replace the resource-depleting, exploitative system we have in place now.

I'm on the host committee for a Green Fundraiser for Obama in Harlem tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 14 (featuring Majora Carter), and I'd like your help in closing the fundraising gap. If you give, please put "BARATUNDE" in the memo/note portion of the donation form, even if you can't make it to Harlem.

Let's send a strong message to both McCain and Obama.

more after the jump...

baratunde

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 10:29 AM PDT

2008/09/18 · 10:29

cross-posted to Jack & Jill Politics, Huffington Post and more coming soon

It's that time in the American political cycle again, when politicians and activists and famous people and your family members tell you how important it is to vote. They tell you this election is more important than ever. They tell you if you don't vote, you don't count.

But what about the votes that don't count? What about the systematic attempts to erect barriers between voters and the ballot box? What about voter suppression?

In order to educate, document and mobilize action, I'm excited to introduce the Voter Suppression Wiki.

Inspired by my fellow blogger, rikyrah, at Jack and Jill Politics, plus input from several online and voting rights activists, the purpose of the wiki is to have a central location to coordinate information and action around efforts to suppress the vote in this 2008 election.

Here's a video intro I made at a most ridiculous hour this morning.

baratunde

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Tuesday June 03, 2008 · 8:18 AM PDT

2008/06/03 · 08:18

cross-posted to jack and jill politics and baratunde.com

(note: i'm mad verbose. this is long. kick your feet up. get some tea. take your time with this one. I also strongly recommend you check out the comments on Jack and Jill Politics)

Last week, after talking with several Hillary Clinton supporters, I had an epiphany: that which I most dislike about the darker sides of her and her campaign is just what some people see in me. It's the worst feeling, to end up displaying traits you deplore, and I'd like to explore it a bit as we move to the general election.

baratunde

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 11:35 AM PDT

2008/05/29 · 11:35

cross-posted to goodCRIMETHINK and jack and jill politics

For just over a year, I've been digging deeper and deeper into the world's energy situation and have oscillated between certainty that 90 percent of us are going to die and cautious optimism about an opportunity to improve the structure of our society.

Among the big "issues" in this political season (to the extent that we even remember those), energy, climate and food are at the top of my list.

With oil prices having grown by a factor of six since 2000 and showing no sign of let up, I will increasingly post about what's going on in an attempt to share what I've learned and direct our frustration accurately and productively.

So why is oil so expensive?

baratunde

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Tuesday May 27, 2008 · 9:16 PM PDT

2008/05/27 · 21:16

My fellow Kossaks,

I met most of you at the first and second YearlKos conventions in my role as Laughing Liberally MC, rabble rouser and Drinking Liberally party-goer. This Thursday, Drinking Liberally turns five years old, and I'd like your help in celebrating.

We have 247 chapters across 47 states, and need just a few more to cover the country. It's a 50-state strategy in line with what many of us in the netroots fight for at the local level: active, informed citizenship.

More below the jump

baratunde

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 9:12 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 09:12

cross-posted to Jack & Jill Politics

I can neither scream any louder nor spew profanities more vile than those I've already uttered aloud and to myself. My ability to step up the rhetoric further has been exhausted. My indignation spent. Samantha Powers was right. Hillary Clinton is a monster.

One way to deal with a monster is to rally the townsfolk, Frankenstein style, and torch it alive in its home. Another way is for us all to simply wake up and realize that what keeps the monster alive is our collective agreement that indeed there is a monster worth fearing in the first place.

baratunde

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Friday May 02, 2008 · 12:08 AM PDT

2008/05/02 · 00:08

cross-posted to jack & jill politics

Finally, this question is hitting the big time, and it's about time. Black blogs always seem to be several months ahead of the press and many fellow white bloggers when it comes to articulating black thought. It happened with Jena and the CBC debates and the Clinton race-baiting. I had to chuckle when I saw Andrew Sullivan write about his realization that race matters in this race. Good for him. Welcome to America bro.

Still, I am quite happy to see the real journalists of McClatchy newspapers get this story out. Someone posted it at DailyKos, and there are over 1,000 comments. I'm gonna paste the entire thing and break it up with some commentary.

baratunde

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 11:49 AM PDT

2008/04/23 · 11:49

cross-posted to jack and jill politics

There are superdelegates and supervoters. I am one of the latter, having sacrificed money, time, creativity and my health to volunteer for this campaign. The fact is Obama is still winning and is still the likely nominee, but I don't feel so hot right now.

Much of that has to do with the fact that I'm very sick with a horrible cough, fever and sore throat. I must have come into contact with a Hillary supporter in PA and gotten cooties from her negative campaigning and vile Deathmarch to Denver. She is poison, and I fear I've been temporarily infected.

baratunde

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Monday April 21, 2008 · 6:41 AM PDT

2008/04/21 · 06:41

cross-posted to jack & jill politics

This is my second weekend in Philly for Obama. Sorry my blogging has been so low, but I'm in the street most of the day and need to get some sleep at night. Below is a slideshow of my Flickr photos and notes on what I've done and seen/heard so far. Apologies in advance for the rough nature of the notes. Also, the first few photos are from my canvassing trip to philly two weeks ago. This weekend's trip starts with a black and white of a baby.

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Embedded In Philly: Rally, Canvassing, HQ Insight and Photos