The British group of musicians and comedians who made up Red Wedge took their name from the Beat the Whites With the Red Edge poster.

The group only existed for five years between 1985 and 1990 but made quite an impact and had some of the UK's best known artists as active members.

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(any bolding is mine)

New York Had the Second-Lowest Voter Turnout So Far This Election Season

By Ari Berman

I voted without problems yesterday, but many other New Yorkers weren’t as lucky.

The Kings County Board of Elections purged 126,000 registered Democrats from the voting rolls in Brooklyn, prompting an outcry from Mayor Bill de Blasio and an audit from Comptroller Scott Stringer. “It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists,” de Blasio said. “The perception that numerous voters may have been disenfranchised undermines the integrity of the entire electoral process and must be fixed.”

Polling places didn’t open on time, voting machines malfunctioned, and voters showed up to find their names weren’t on the rolls. Some voters had their party affiliations mysteriously switched from Democratic or Republican to independent or non-affiliated and couldn’t vote in the closed primaries. And 3 million New Yorkers, 27 percent of the electorate, didn’t get to vote because they weren’t registered with the Democratic or Republican parties, and the deadline to change party affiliation was an absurd 193 days before the April 19 primary, as I reported on Monday.

As a result, only 19.7 percent of eligible New Yorkers cast a ballot, the second-lowest voter turnout among primary states after Louisiana, according to elections expert Michael McDonald. There were over 900 calls from frustrated voters to the Election Protection Coalition, more than in any other primary state.

was wonderful. Then the artists went into exile, the gulag, or silence. Because Stalin & Co. determined everyone should produce paintings of tractors.

What people forget is that there actually was idealism at the beginning of the Revolution. Starvation and civil war aside, Moscow was the most exciting place in the world to be. When Mayakovsky said, "Let us make the squares our palettes, the streets our brushes," he meant it. Every wall was a painting. There were painted trains, boats, airplanes, balloons. Wallpaper and dinner plates and gum wrappers were all created by artists who genuinely thought they were making a new world. They all believed anything was possible.

Lenin's tomb is a Constructivist design inspired by Malevich. It's a red square on Red Square. There's more to it than just Lenin laid out like a smoked herring. Art was everywhere in those days. Tatlin designed a revolving skyscraper taller than the Empire State Building. Popova drew high fashions for peasants. The artists of Moscow were going to paint the trees of the Kremlin red. Lenin did object to that, but people thought that anything was possible. Those were days of hope, days of fantasy.

Malevich said in 1918 that "footballs of entangled centuries would burn out in the sparks of bubbling light waves."

We live in the archeological ruins of that new world that never was. If we knew where to dig, who knows what we would find?

The Leap: Time for a reality check
By Naomi Klein | April 14, 2016

Well, the Leap is certainly in the news. Many articles have been filled with errors and misrepresentations, which isn't surprising. It makes perfect sense that right-leaning publications and competing political parties would seek to bury the NDP at a time when it is engaged in a process of open soul-searching. We should expect more, however, from commentators on the left.

One article from David J. Climenhaga, an important progressive analyst on Alberta politics, echoes much of the criticism heard in recent days from friends in that province. Because of this, I have decided to respond, point by point, to his attack on the Leap. While Climenhaga's piece does not contain a single quote from our document, I am leaving most of the text of his article in my response below.

My responses follow each part of the quoted text, below.

Trump: Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is ‘pure political correctness’
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/trump-putting-harriet-tubman-on-the-20-b...

The racist SOB just can't keep his pie hole shut.
Quick where are all the Trump apologists that keep trying to convince me that his really a nice guy. Hahahha.