Voting Rights Watch Voting Rights Watch
In-depth coverage of voter suppression efforts nationwide from Brentin Mock and Aura Bogado, in partnership with Colorlines.com. Brentin Mock is a New Orleans–based journalist who serves as lead reporter on Voting Rights Watch, covering the challenges presented by new voter ID laws, suppression of voter registration drives, and other attempts to limit electoral power of people of color. In his previous position as senior editor at The Loop 21, Brentin also covered electoral politics with a significant amount of reporting on voter ID issues. In New Orleans, Brentin also works as web editor for the online, citizen-journalist driven blogsite Bridge the Gulf and helped launch the New Orleans online investigative news site The Lens. He previously worked at The American Prospect as a reporter and blogger covering environmental justice issues through a fellowship awarded by the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting. Brentin also served on the staff of the national magazine Intelligence Report, published by Southern Poverty Law Center, investigating hate groups and anti-immigrant nativist extremists. Brentin's professional career began in his native city of Pittsburgh, working as managing editor of the African-American community newspaper Renaissance News before joining the staff of the alternative newsweekly Pittsburgh City Paper. His work has been published in GOOD, the Root, the Daily Beast, Newsweek.com, the Grio, The Atlantic, Next American City, Truthout.org, Alternet, Vibe.com, XXL, The Source and Religion Dispatches. Follow Brentin at @bmockaveli. Aura Bogado is the community journalism coordinator and blogger for Voting Rights Watch 2012. Aura has reported in Spanish and English from Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and the United States. Her work has been published in Mother Jones, Newsweek Argentina, AlterNet, and The Huffington Post. With the support of the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, she conducted an in-depth examination on the consequences of immigration enforcement by local police in Arizona. Aura has worked as a national host and producer for the Pacifica Radio network. While there, she also coordinated a media literacy and training program for youth of color in Los Angeles with a grant from the California Technology Foundation. She was a founding member of 33+1/3 Books Collective, an independent bookstore and gallery in Los Angeles. In 2006, City Lights Books published The Other Campaign, which featured her exclusive interview with Subcomandante Marcos, his first in five years. She earned her B.A. from Yale University, majoring in American Studies. An immigrant from South America of indigenous (Guarani) decent, she is currently based in New York, and plays son jarocho music in her spare time. Follow Aura at @zapallita.
Jun 18, 2012
Barry Friedman Barry Friedman
Barry Friedman is the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and author of The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). He co-authored an amicus brief in the Affordable Care Act litigation on behalf of law professors, arguing the legislation is constitutional.
Jun 18, 2012
Jack Shaheen Jack Shaheen
Jack Shaheen is an expert on images of Arabs and Muslims in popular culture. His award-winning books include Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People and Guilty: Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs After 9/11.
Jun 14, 2012
Abed Awad Abed Awad
Abed Awad, an attorney and expert on the role of Sharia and foreign law in American courts, teaches Islamic jurisprudence at Rutgers Law School and Pace Law School. He is also the co-founder of the blog ShariaInAmerica.com.
Jun 14, 2012
Ramzi Kassem Ramzi Kassem
Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York, also supervises the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project, which works to meet the legal needs of Muslim, Arab, South Asian and other communities in New York City that are particularly affected by counterterrorism policies and practices.
Jun 14, 2012
Orlando Figes Orlando Figes
Jun 13, 2012
Aura Bogado Aura Bogado
Aura Bogado writes about racial justice, Native rights, and immigration for The Nation. A former host and producer for Pacifica radio, her work has also been published in Mother Jones, Newsweek Argentina, Colorlines.com and The Huffington Post. She is currently based in New York City.
Jun 12, 2012
Institute for Local Self-Reliance Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Since 1974, ILSR has championed local self-reliance, a strategy that underscores the need for humanly scaled institutions and economies and the widest possible distribution of ownership.
Jun 12, 2012
Todd Miller Todd Miller
Todd Miller currently writes on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas. He has researched and written about US-Mexican border issues for over a decade and has worked for BorderLinks in Tucson, Arizona, and Witness for Peace in Oaxaca, Mexico. His first book, Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security, was published by City Lights Publishers in 2014.
Jun 7, 2012
Anjuli Sastry Anjuli Sastry
Anjuli Sastry, an undergraduate at UC, Berkeley, is the assistant news editor for The Daily Cal.
Jun 6, 2012