Day two of Live From Main Street and GRITtv’s special programming on voting in the United States. Registration deadlines loom and there are many obstacles. From reading tests to ID challenges, felon disenfranchisement laws and the endless purging of voter rolls the U.S. is almost alone among industrial world democracies in having no uniform federal voting law. WHY IS THAT? 

As early voting begins in states across the country, we are joined by Wendy Weiser who directs the Brennan Center’s work on voting rights and elections; Docia Buffington, the lead organizer for the Youth Voter Collective; Frances Fox Piven the author of many books including Why Americans Still Don’t Vote; and Dr. Divine Pryor the Executive Director of the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions.

Then on to the financial crisis and the state of global capitalism with Danny Schechter whose book Plunder lays out the anatomy of the subrprime crisis and Frances Fox Piven. Finally the American News Project on the ongoing home foreclosures sweeping the country. For homeowners, there is no relief in sight.

For this week’s special programming on voting GRITtv would like to thank the Progressive Book Club, The Media Consortium, Progress Ohio, and The League of Young Voters. 

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