Archive for July 2024

Review follows Roma organisations’ concerns about community’s ‘negative experiences’ of social work, in wake of disorder linked to practitioners reportedly removing children from family

ernie Sanders has not chosen the easy road in American politics. During the Cold War, in the early 1960s, he decided to join the Young People’s Socialist League. In the 1970s and ‘80s, he pursued third-party and independent politics in Vermont. In the 1990s and ’00s, he was among the few progressive voices in a rightward-moving Congress. All along the way, however, from his years in the Burlington mayor’s office to his stint as an outsider in the House of Representatives to his sometimes lonely work in the most elite of all American bodies, the US Senate, Sanders remained committed to what he calls a “political revolution”—a mobilization of working-class people from the bottom-up to create egalitarian change.

In the 3-2 vote, the three Democrats on the board voted as a bloc to reject recognizing JFA, which is running Dr. West (above), an opponent of the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, as its presidential candidate. This is despite the fact that the party submitted over 17,140 signed and verified petitions, over 3,200 more than the 13,865 required by state law…. the NCSBE did admit We the People Party (WTP), which has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a stalwart defender of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians, as its candidate…. Both parties submitted more signatures than required prior to the June 1 deadline. Nevertheless, last month, after complaints about the petitions were raised to the board by the North Carolina State Democratic Party and a Democratic Party-aligned super PAC, Clear Choice Action, Democrats on the board refused to grant party status to JFA or WTP.

Such a diverse selection of ties.