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Activist Reports--Standing Rock, Election Dayby Mary, Bill B.Dec 10, 2016 On Oct. 26, we organized a protest at Senator Chuck Schumer’s Manhattan office against the Spectra AIM pipeline and in alliance with the struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux.--Mary On Election Day my wife, a neighbor and I volunteered as non-partisan poll monitors to ensure that people could exercise their right to vote. This wasn’t a no-brainer because in addition to all the new laws restricting that right, Trump’s calls for his own monitors took the vote suppression game to a whole new and threatening level.--Bill B.
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