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By Miriam Raftery
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East County Magazine
Conservatives call for deeper cuts, Progressives launch campaign to allow majority to make budget decisions in Sacramento.
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By Lauren McGlothlin
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civilrights.org
In this video submitted to 99Problems.org, a site where people can upload video testimonials about problems facing their communities, Joe Hill of Philadelphia explains why he sees a need for the Youth PROMISE Act in his community.
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By Antoinette Jenna Pizzi
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The Daily Free Press
“People are excited about the new era but people have a lot of issues going on in life,” said Biko Baker, executive director for the League of Young Voters Education Fund. “There is a lot of hope and a lot of problems.”
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By Bridget Bland
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Blackvoices
Who said that the younger generation of voters is apathetic and unaware of America's biggest problems? With one look at the new website 99Problems.org, it's easy to tell that is certainly not the case.
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By Kristina Rizga
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The Nation
In the fall of 2004, then-college student Julian Mocine-McQueen was outraged that the prosperous city of San Francisco was doing little to prevent or talk about the high rate of homicides among young African-American and Latino men. So he started organizing young people around violence prevention programs through the League of Young Voters, a national voter engagement organization that also supports community organizers working with low-income youth.
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By Jake Paine
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Hiphopdx.com
Coinciding with this week's heavy dose of political events, The League of Young Voters Education Fund announced yesterday that they will launch 99Problems.org.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Attorneys suing the Port Authority for its refusal to run advertisements informing ex-felons of their right to vote in Pennsylvania only got through two witnesses yesterday in the opening day of trial.
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By Jason Cato
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Pittsburgh League of Young Voters and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Port Authority in 2006 after it refused to accept an ad explaining voting rights of ex-convicts.
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By Katie Diamond
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Portland Press Herald
The League of Young Voters has a agenda for progressives that touches all bases.
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By Biko Baker
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The Nation
I'm not going to lie to you. When Barack Obama first kicked off his campaign less than two years ago I was more than a little skeptical.
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By Jeff Chang
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Vibe
Throughout the north side of Pittsburgh, one of the city's three major Black districts, they lined up before dawn, hundreds deep in the 47-degree weather as if they were waiting for history to be made.... One of them was a 19-year old named Loric Frye.... But Frye was far from the kind of clean-scrubbed, neatly partisan first-time voter.... he wasn't even supposed to have found his way into the voting booth yesterday.... Frye spent the year canvassing, registering and door-knocking with Khari Mosley and the League of Young Voters....
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By Paul Tambasco
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Garner Citizen News and Times
“First-time voters...are comfortable seeking information out and being able to discern and separate the wheat from the chaff,” said Sam Dorman, a managing director of The League of Young Voters, a group based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that works to engage young voters in swing states - particularly those off of college campuses.
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By Jessica Bopp
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South Pittsburgh Reporter
The Pennsylvania League of Young Voters is one of the many organizations that have focused more on voter engagement and education this year.
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By KATIE FIEDLER
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The Spectrum
Leonardo DiCaprio, MTV, P. Diddy and Burger King agree: your vote matters. More than ever, young voters are getting a big push to register, vote and get their voices heard.
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By Khari Mosley
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
KHARI MOSLEY says Barack Obama has inspired a new generation of African Americans to set higher goals and look beyond themselves
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By Karla Hult
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Kare11 News
At first glance, it's just another Halloween bash. Among the group of young adults, one finds "Mr. T," a witch and Lady Liberty. But upon closer examination, one realizes -- there's more than candy driving these young adults in costumes.
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By Rich Cholodofsky
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Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Watchdog groups on Thursday said a ban on cameras at polling places throughout Westmoreland County could lead to a cover-up of potential problems with electronic voting.
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Pittsburgh Courier Online
A local 12-year-old Hill District resident won a political contest hosted by the Pennsylvania League of Young Voters.
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By Van Jones
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The Nation
As more racially diverse groups like the League of Young Voters, the Hip Hop Caucus, the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative and Young People For (YP4) join the movement, the sky is the limit for the next generation's leadership role.
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By Ann Bryant
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SunJournal.com
The war in Iraq has been a costly and frustrating effort, according to forum speakers Adam Cote of Portland and Alex Cornell du Houx of Brunswick, who shared their experiences and reflected on the past five years of war Wednesday at the University of Maine at Farmington.
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By Susan M. Cover
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Maine News
Citizen groups today urged Maine's voters to know their voting rights for the Nov. 4 election.
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By Jeff Chang
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XVibe
Since this year's election could bring one of the highest turnouts on record, especially at precincts in communities of color and around colleges and universities, both parties and nonpartisan organizations like the League of Young Voters have already begun bringing people to the polls.
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In These Times
Billy Wimsatt founded The League of Young Voters in 2003 to organize and empower youth – particularly young people from low-income communities who haven’t attended college.
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By Jennifer Parker
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ABC News
Early voting has become a growing trend in the United States, with now more than 30 states offering "no-excuse" early voting, either in person or by mail.
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By Anya Sostek
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For the past week, representatives from the League of Young Voters Education Fund have been working an unusual shift. From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., members of the group have been prowling bars and clubs looking for -- and finding -- unregistered voters.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
There is a place for every volunteer. While the No. 1 thing is voter contact, it also needs volunteers for things like data entry and research. "Don't be scared off by thinking that there are only specific tasks," said Elizabeth Rincon, the league's state director.
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By Annie Tubbs
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This is fourth in a series of Right Here columns about 20-something Pittsburghers who work at nonprofit organizations. This week, we sat down with some employees of the PA League of Young Voters, all in their 20s.
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By Heather Knight
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San Francisco Chronicle
On a recent Monday night, the top three contenders for supervisor of San Francisco's District Nine gathered in the studio of Pirate Cat Radio, an unlicensed community radio station, to answer some tough questions from their host, the League of Pissed Off Voters.
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By Gabrielle Banks
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The inmates on 6D crowded around plastic tables, chatting, smiling and milling about, while one volunteer at each table handed out forms and answered a flurry of questions. From the giddy buzz on the cellblock, you might have guessed they were giving away iPods or fresh turkey dinners with all the fixings.
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By Heather Box
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YES! Magazine
I spent six months in a U.S. senator’s office but ended up leaving frustrated and disillusioned by the political process. Instead of making improvements, we seemed to be stepping backwards; things were changing too slowly. That’s when I got involved with the League of Young Voters.
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By Laura Flanders
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GritTV with Laura Flanders
New voters could decide the '08 election, but in most states there are just over two weeks left to register. In this panel we're focusing on the change-makers....We are joined on the phone by Robert Biko Baker, Executive Director of the League of Young Voters.
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WMTW TV
Portland Voters Pack Room To Seek Answers From Candidates
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By Peter Dreier
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Huffington Post
The League of Young Voters, founded in 2005, has campaigns to reach working class non-college youth in cities in nine states. It has also helped build local groups that work on local issues, such as gun control, green jobs, voting rights and loitering laws.
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By Ben Malley
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Beyond Chron
The three candidates participated in a forum presented by the League of Young Voters yesterday, which will eventually lead to an endorsement by the organization. “Please don’t triple endorse,” Sanchez said jokingly, before the debate began.
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Minnesota Public Radio
Midmorning asks if the enthusiasm of today's youth will translate to their actual votes, live from the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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By Bob Culp
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CBS News Youth Vote Blog
As the national political director of the League of Young Voters, Mosley has worked with the demographic since the League's creation in 2005.
"Young people see what is happening with the economy, what is happening with energy, urban violence and a lot of other issues across the country," Mosley said. "These issues are affecting people in a way we haven't seen in a long time and it's evident, particularly in this generation."
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By BEN ADLER
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Politico
Biko Baker, executive director of the non-partisan League of Young Voters, believes that the presence of the young delegates will be valuable for youth engagement efforts. “I think it’s giving young people practice at democracy, seeing it up close and personal,” said Baker. “I think it’s a great thing.”
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By Asia M. Howell
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New Pittsburgh Courier Online
Prior to Election Day, the League of Young Voters will be visiting the Allegheny County Jail, registering inmates to vote.
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By James Heggen
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insidehighered.com
Robert (Biko) Baker, executive director of the League of Young Voters, which focuses on working class voters, said it was a question of priorities. “I think, we as progressives, particularly us as young people of color who are working class, first people ... of our families to go to college, we have to continue to push these candidates around the issues that are important to us,” he said.
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By Kristina Rizga
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The Nation
When it comes to mobilizing non-college youths, Khari Mosley, the national political director of the League of Young Voters, another group that works primarily with low-income youth and youth of color, stresses that it's crucial to combine traditional voter organizing tactics, such as canvassing, with new models to engage non-college youth in November.
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Fox News
ROBERT "BIKO" BAKER, LEAGUE OF YOUNG VOTERS: The truth of the matter is America, if you turn on the TV, is a racist, sexist, xenophobic society when you turn on the TV. We're afraid of Muslims, we're afraid of gay people, we're afraid of African-Americans, and we're afraid of working-class white folks.
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By Portland Press Herald Staff Report
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Maine News
Justin Alfond, former head of the League of Young Voters, won Tuesday's three-way race for the Democratic nomination in Senate District 8, according to unofficial results from the Portland city clerk.
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By Paula Reed Ward
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh League of Young Voters Education Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Pennsylvania filed suit against the Port Authority in August 2006 after it rejected an advertisement that encouraged ex-offenders to register to vote.
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By Hannah Lobel
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Utne Reader
Instead of segregating ourselves into “communities,” we need to reengage
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The One Hill Community Benefits Agreement Coalition met yesterday to announce an online petition drive aimed at securing a fair new arena settlement for the community.
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By Ben Adler
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Politico
Young people who have never attended college are not voting at levels nearly as high in the primary elections as their peers with at least some post-secondary education, according to a recent report by a nonprofit group that studies civic engagement among youths.
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By C. Denise Johnson
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New Pittsburgh Courier Online
Last week the Allegheny County Council selected Amanda Green to replace Brenda Frazier and Khari Mosley to become the national field director for the League of Young Voters.
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By Salena Zito
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Pittsburgh political activist Khari Mosley is hitting the road as the new national field and political director for the League of Young Voters.
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By Jaime McLeod
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think.mtv.com
Last week, scores of people, including at least 60 young adults organized by Portland’s League of Young Voters, converged on a public hearing held by the Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation (PACTS), the regional advisory board whose job is to recommend transportation solutions and policies for the greater Portland area, to ask members to rethink their priorities for the near future.
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By Erica Smiley
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People's Weekly World
Billy Wimsatt, director of the League of Young Voters noted, “The youth vote didn’t just come out of nowhere. Organizations like ours have been building up the youth vote election cycle after election cycle to help build the confidence of young people to participate.”
