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Via the blog Bitch PhD comes a link to an online Student Voting Rights Guide from the Brennan Center for Justice.
It’s an interactive guide — you specify whether you’re voting on campus or from your pre-college hometown, and it shows you the regulations on registration, residency, identification, and absentee voting for all fifty states. The rules show up as a color-coded map, and you can click through for specific information.
It’s a great resource for activists planning GOTV campaigns. Spread the word!
As you’ve all noticed, I’ve suspended the blog for the time being so that I can participate in the negotiations surrounding the bailout bill currently under consideration in the nation’s capital. I’ll be back tomorrow, though, with the first in a long string of exciting new entries.
In the meantime, I’d like to ask a favor of my New York readers. There’s a bill on the governor’s desk right now that supports women and children who have been subjected to domestic violence and sex trafficking, specifically those who are undocumented immigrants. It’s a low-profile bill, but an important one, and if the governor doesn’t sign it by tomorrow night it won’t become law.
I’ve put up a full explanation of the situation over at my other blog, and I’d very much appreciate it if the New Yorkers among you could take a couple of minutes to go read that post, and if you find it compelling, make a phone call. It’s literally a fifteen-second call, and it could make a big difference in the lives of women who are trying to put their lives back together in very difficult circumstances.
Thanks.
When the opinion editors of the Wall Street Journal examined post-Palin polls, they found youth support for McCain mired at a dismal 33%, exactly where it was before he picked Palin as his veep.
They then wrote up these findings in a 750-word article titled “Palin’s Entry Gives GOP Ticket Shot at Capturing Youth Vote.”
Well played, WSJ.
An interesting background piece from the First Amendment Center on the organizational relationship between student newspapers and campus administrators. The piece gives particular attention to the trend toward student papers organizing themselves as non-profit corporations independent of the universitites they cover.
The nuts-and-bolts assistance programs that student governments run for the students they serve may not be the most exciting aspect of campus activism, but they are activist endeavors. They represent students working for students to advance a student-centered agenda, independent of the priorities of the university administration.
Stories like this one are small stories, in other words, but important stories.
studentactivism.net 
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