This is one of the polling places where the city clerk says there were reports of improper electioneering people campaigning too close to the entrance. We found a small group of paul nehlen supporters in Mount Pleasant. We met people from texas and virginia who say theyre here to back nehlen. They admit officials told them they cannot Place Campaign signs on location. They must also stay at least 100 feet from any entrance to the building. The oak creek city clerk says she got numerous calls about electioneering this morning. Our chief inspectors who manage our polling locations have reported there have been some passionate electioneers at our polling locations. I personally visited two of those locations and spoke today, photo id is in effect for todays primary. A recent ruling allowing people to fill out an affidavit if they cant easily get an id. Is currently in place for november. However, officials here in oak creek, as well as the state elections commission, say there have been f
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa, in collaboration with the Women and Gender Studies Program, will host the symposium “Reproductive Rights and Freedom” on Saturday, March 4 at 101 E. Archer St in Tulsa.
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision came down Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, Oklahoma’s attorney general announced it had triggered a state law banning the practice in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma and neighboring Texas already have some of the strictest abortion bans on the books. For Indigenous women, there were already barriers before Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Although the media began focusing on the menstrual product shortage in recent weeks, grassroots organization Indigenous Women Rising have been focused on the shortage since at least the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rachel Lorenzo, Mescalero Apache/Laguna Pueblo/Xicana and co-founder of IWR, said that when Tribal governments began giving out COVID care packages at the […]