PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

The Fight for Philadelphia
by Tom Allan Monday, Nov. 22, 2004 at 11:01 AM
w_t_allan@yahoo.com

A forty minute programe about the 2004 election in Philadelphia. Interviews with activists and volunteers helping to get out the vote, and people in the streets, including homeless voters. Many inspiring stories of people determined to vote.

audio link: MP3 at 35.6 mebibytes

Starting a few days before the election, ths follows the work of activists and volunteers from Philadelphia and beyond in their efforts to make sure that a big turnout in the city, a democrat stronghold, helped swing the state.

Includes;
...interviews with ACORN workers as they go round the Northern neighbourhoods of Philly
...preparations of thousands of election protection volunteers beforehand, and their stories at the polling stations on the day
...interviews with homeless people - and with local organsisation Project Homes about the empowering effects of voting
...electoral fraud on the day...
...late night marching through the city with Acorn to make sure everyone had voted
...and the day after, reaction from the streets to another four years of Bush/Cheney

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