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Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, 2000-2008" (Columbus, Free Press) and a member of the Election Integrity movement since 2001. Her original website, WordsUnLtd.com, first entered the blogosphere in 2003. She recently became a senior editor for Opednews.com. She has in the past taught college and worked as a full-time as well as freelance reporter. She has been a peace and election integrity activist since 1999. Her undergraduate and graduate educational background are in Spanish, classical philology, and historical and comparative linguistics. Her biography is most recently listed in "Who's Who in America" 2019 and in 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Who's Who.

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NOAM CHOMSKY, From FlickrPhotos
(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 15, 2020
How Trump Stole 2020: Greg Palast & Noam Chomsky, moderated by Amy Goodman How Trump Stole 2020: Greg Palast & Noam Chomsky, moderated by Amy Goodman A Zoom presentation on Bastille Day with Greg Palast and Noam Chomsky discussing Greg's new book in the context of the quagmire of November 2020 and what we can do to assure a survivable outcome.
Series: politics in general (52 Articles, 161521 views), Greg Palast and environmentalism (22 Articles, 47057 views), Election Integrity (102 Articles, 220313 views) (View All Series)
Cover of the book, From InText
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 13, 2020
Review: Greg Palast's Forthcoming Blockbuster, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters A review of Greg Palast's blockbuster "How Trump Stole 2020," counting the ways Election 2020 will be corrupted and instructing us how to fight back and win. The publication date was Bastille Day.
Vote!, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Notes on Town Hall via Zoom, Emergency Election Protection 2020 The Emergency Election Protection group, which has held about ten weekly Zoom sessions so far, today consisted of a town hall session led by several long-time and distinguished activists. Public support is vital to achieving their goals, which are really all of ours.
Series: Reviews (107 Articles, 169942 views), politics in general (52 Articles, 161521 views), Election Integrity (102 Articles, 220313 views) (View All Series)
A Doomsday Clock 11:58 1/2 P.M., From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Chomsky, Up Against a Sociopathic Megalomaniac: What Does This Tell Us about Ourselves? This evening, June 10, Professor Noam Chomsky addressed members of Princeton's Coalition of Peace Action on the occasion of their Fortieth Anniversary Membership Gathering. When one member of the audience asked him what he attributes his longevity (92) to, he answered: "The Bicycle Theory: Keep riding fast and you don't fall off."
Series: discrimination (29 Articles, 106402 views), democracy (29 Articles, 118662 views), activism in action (44 Articles, 133537 views) (View All Series)
What's left of our flag today?, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 25, 2020
Happy? Memorial Day Ruminations on Memorial Day this tragic year, in response to that third-grade song I learned so many years ago, "What Shall We Do on Memorial Day?"
Series: Ruminations (15 Articles, 43542 views), discrimination (29 Articles, 106402 views)
Folk Art Flag, From FlickrPhotos
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The 100 Million Who Don't Vote: Who Are They and Why? NYU's Brennan Center for Justice led a webinar today focused on a groundbreaking study just released by the Knight Foundation, "The 100 Million Project: The Untold Story of American Non-Voters."
Series: Reviews (107 Articles, 169942 views), politics in general (52 Articles, 161521 views), democracy (29 Articles, 118662 views) (View All Series)
In The Orion Nebula, From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 5, 2020
THE HYPOTHETICAL FUTURE: HOW GOOD WAS NOAH vs. HOW BAD IS TRUMP? Fantasizing one way a post-Covid19 world would evolve.
Series: Ruminations (15 Articles, 43542 views), politics in general (52 Articles, 161521 views), discrimination (29 Articles, 106402 views) (View All Series)
The new machinery: scanner (top), and special-needs scanner (bottom), From InText
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 10, 2020
BELLWETHER BUCKS HAS NEW OPSCANS; DITCHED DREs I attended an exhibition of Bucks County's new Clear Ballot optical scanners. What I found there was technology and lots more: many people braving coronavirus and the odds against democracy to assert their right to vote.
Series: Election Integrity (102 Articles, 220313 views), democracy (29 Articles, 118662 views)
50 Shades of Blue, From FlickrPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 7, 2020
Plutocracy on or off Steroids? Fascism on a Silver Platter? My take on the only path forward toward saving what's left of our democracy.
Series: politics in general (52 Articles, 161521 views), Election Integrity (102 Articles, 220313 views), activism in action (44 Articles, 133537 views) (View All Series)
Vote!, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 22, 2020
OUR MARCH TO THE BALLOT BOX: Teleconference on Fighting Back for Our Democracy, Our Vote A teleconference this evening headed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson declared war on election corruption in all of its hideous forms and assembled strategies toward unstoppable victory.
Series: activism in action (44 Articles, 133537 views), discrimination (29 Articles, 106402 views), Election Integrity (102 Articles, 220313 views) (View All Series)
Martin Luther King Jr St Paul Campus U MN., From WikimediaPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 19, 2020
On MLK Day Memories of the Fortieth Anniversary rally of MLK's I Have a Dream speech held on Washington, DC, on August 23, 2003 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Plus other relevant highlights before and after that day.
Series: activism in action (44 Articles, 133537 views), discrimination (29 Articles, 106402 views), rallies and demonstrations, mostly in DC (5 Articles, 7876 views) (View All Series)
A fireside chat between Rep. Maxine Waters and Pulitzer-prize winning MSNBC and Washington Post reporter Jonathan Capehart, From Uploaded
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 18, 2019
Protecting America's Right to Vote: A Fireside Chat with Rep. Maxine Waters Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was honored yesterday, October 17, with the Transformative Justice Coalition's first annual Champion of Justice award. Present with her at the ceremony, presided over by founder Barbara Arnwine, were Reps. Ayana Pressley (D-MA) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-CA).
Series: Election Integrity (102 Articles, 220313 views), activism in action (44 Articles, 133537 views), discrimination (29 Articles, 106402 views) (View All Series)
Voting Arrow, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 14, 2019
NETROOTS NATION 2019 Panel on Election Security, the Single Most Important Issue in Our Elections Today Six EI experts articulated their perspectives on what is said to be the most important issue in elections today: that votes are counted as cast or, more accurately, counted according to the voter's choices.
Series: Election Integrity (102 Articles, 220313 views), activism in action (44 Articles, 133537 views), discrimination (29 Articles, 106402 views) (View All Series)
The Things this Nation Been Though, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 14, 2019
Netroots Nation 2019: A Call to Arms against Oppression, Bigotry, and Corruption in All Their Forms" Just one among many events rallying all progressives at the Netroots Nation conference of 2019 in Philadelphia. So many issues were encompassed, so many questions asked and answered. Progressives must fight against all of the Donald Trumps of the world.
Vote!, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Left Forum 2019 EI Panel "Election Integrity: Publicly Verified Elections and Informed Public Fend Off Corruption!" About Joel Simpson's Left Forum panel on "Election Integrity: Publicly Verified Elections and Informed Public Are Key to De-Corrupting Our Democracy!"- "The majority of voters in this country ARE progressives."
RAILROAD TUNNEL, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 21, 2019
Guest OpEd: Stanley Forczek, "National Infrastructure Bank: A Hamiltonian Solution to Today's Infrastructure Crisis" "While there are many infrastructure projects requiring funding in New Jersey and throughout the Nation, the most urgent is the Gateway Project continuing the connection between North Jersey and New York City. Fully 20% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the nation flows through the two 100-plus year-old tubes that link the two jurisdictions. . . "
Series: activism in action (44 Articles, 133537 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Deeply Discounted DREs Sold to the General Public a Few Months Ago for a Few Months Other than completely free of charge, obsolete DREs were available in Licking County, Ohio at the deepest possible discount for a few months before the State's SoS intervened indignantly.
Series: Election Integrity (102 Articles, 220313 views)
cover image of the latest edition of Simon's Code Red, From InText
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Jonathan Simon's "Evening of Election (in) Security": Outrages Viral and Exponential Jonathan Simon amazed an amply filled room of interested listeners on the depth and breadth of election corruption in this country and what we're doing to fight back, based on his magisterial book Code Red, which now exists in three editions, 2018 the most recent one, and we're hoping for a 2020 follow-up of unmatchable insights into what's been going on in this country and what might happen thereafter.
Series: The Capitol Beat (80 Articles, 132200 views), Reviews (107 Articles, 169942 views), politics in general (52 Articles, 161521 views) (View All Series)
Vote Here, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 7, 2019
Voting Is a Privilege? No, a "Power Grab": McConnell vs. HR 1 HR 1: quixotic or eventual? The outcomes of Election 2020 may hold the answer, but so may Mitch McConnell.
Pieta marching for the future, From Uploaded
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 19, 2019
Third Annual Women's March Converges on DC; Blocked from Capitol Building Far fewer women showed up in Washington, DC for this year's Women's March--thousands as opposed to hundreds of thousands in 2017. A photo essay + commentary. Will we ever be able to sit back and not plan marches? Let us never stop marching--that's what democracy looks like.

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