From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6134 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, March 10 2021 Volume 14 : Number 6134 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Exit your timeshare, legally and permanently ["Timeshare Cancel Now" Subject: Exit your timeshare, legally and permanently Exit your timeshare, legally and permanently http://hotixpro.buzz/ficO1sYPGSqhQ3QU0bxQUMV48G-9hus4I8PnahxLNoLgMBOM http://hotixpro.buzz/mSwj0AyyKUuIVWRdBekFUjWY1iv1i9iZp9uPRnb2ELL4y8vm ctics used by groups opposing the tax included applying pressure to state legislators, introducing federal legislation to abolish the taxes, attempting to sway public opinion, and bringing legal cases to the courts. The Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, led by Mary Dewson and Eleanor Roosevelt, was concerned about the impact of the Depression and its consequences on women's ability to pay to vote. In the 1940s, the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax was the primary organization working on national legislation, until its demise in 1948 when many of its members and supporters were investigated during the Red Scare fueled by McCarthyism. As was typical for the time, the organization was led and run by women who worked under male figureheads. When by the late 1940s federal legislative action had repeatedly failed, focus changed on the issue. Thereafter, nationally, the push was to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning poll taxes as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections, which was successful in 1964 with the ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Pressure on individual state legislatures continued through the 1960s. While individuals and groups attempted to sway legislators, many women turned to the courts after Breedlove. Though some had success with their suits, and were awarded damages, poll tax as a prerequisite for voting had effectively prevented them from participating, as by the time their cases were heard, the elections were over. None of the suits resulted in overturning state law until the civil rights movement pushed for the passage of reforms, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Under the authority of this act, the Department of Justice was able to institute federal lawsuits against the states that still had local statutes that were excessively discriminatory in disenfranchising voters, by challenging their constitutionality. The matter was finally resolved, after a four-decades long struggle, by the U.S. Supreme Court in the decision handed down in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elec ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 06:13:11 -0500 From: "Inside The Brain" Subject: This Is What Ear Ringing Does To Your Brain This Is What Ear Ringing Does To Your Brain http://powertrack.buzz/LZceGESy2jQSGHJID3OsorDLihDhPZlEwQ2mhf1_yiSJH7iO http://powertrack.buzz/MOe5S2lFTrihnV63Fsx5z5f_RPFmhqCIWjBQ2K3mExnkaAaT rom the early 1930s, the Tennessee chapter of the League of Women Voters campaigned to abolish poll taxes. In 1939, the state League, led by women like Hazel Schaeffer and Violet Bray Lindsey, prepared a bill to repeal the tax and pushed for the state legislature to pass it. Three bills were introduced to the House that year, but each was referred to a legislative committee which took no action, and so all three failed. Two motions to work on a constitutional amendment were also proposed; one was tabled and the other failed for lack of a second. Two bills were also introduced that year in the Senate but never emerged from committee. Undeterred, the women, supported by the Davidson County Democratic Women, Tennessee Federation of Labor, and the state chapter of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, pressed for the measure again in 1941, but it was defeated in the Senate. State League of Women Voter members joined with the Industrial Council, the Tennessee Farm Bureau, the Tennessee State Grange, the YWCA, and 30 other civic and professional groups to found the Committee for Majority Rule. The goal of the group was to continue to press for the repeal of the poll tax; its officers were Jennings Perry, chair; Dorothy Stafford, eastern vice chair; Alton Lawrence, middle Tennessee vice chair; and Katharine Fulling, western vice chair. In 1943, the state League lobbied the Tennessee General Assembly to immediately take up a bill to repeal poll taxes. The Assembly passed legislation, but a suit was filed by the Polk County sheriff alleging that the repeal violated the state constitution. The Tennessee Supreme Court voided the newly passed law as unconstitutional, since the Tennessee Constitution provided that "all male citizens shall be liable to a poll tax." Based upon that decision, the state League of Women Voters began to press for a reform of the state constitution. In 1949, women activists pressed the legislature to pass a bill exempting women and veterans of both World Wars from paying poll taxes and secured the promise that a constitutional convention would be placed on the November ballot. In 1953 a constitutional amendment was passed abolishing the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting, and changing the state constitution to formally allow women to vot ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 03:32:34 -0500 From: "Protect American Patriots" Subject: Better Than Traditional Holsters Better Than Traditional Holsters http://malecourse.buzz/IRAZ9L3ZMBruKsKl9J-j_CRtrZKNGAV-stdvOr4vwSsEh1Rw http://malecourse.buzz/c21TeeejRP1gGWUSWAqM9kjczTKfdfsAmusjc3RN7ap_K1GS he women's poll tax repeal movement was a movement in the United States predominantly led by women that attempted to secure the abolition of poll taxes as a prerequisite for voting in the Southern states. The movement began shortly after the ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted suffrage to women. Before obtaining the right to vote, women were not obliged to pay the tax, but shortly after the Nineteenth Amendment became law, Southern states began examining how poll tax statutes could be applied to women. For example, North and South Carolina exempted women from payment of the tax, while Georgia did not require women to pay it unless they registered to vote. In other Southern states, the tax was due cumulatively for each year someone had been eligible to vote. Payment of the tax was difficult for blacks, Hispanics, and women, primarily because their incomes were much lower than those of white men. For married women, coverture prevented them from controlling their own assets. Recognizing that payment of the tax as a prerequisite to voting could lead to their disenfranchisement, women began organizing themselves in the 1920s to repeal the poll tax laws, but the movement did not gain much traction until the Great Depression in the 1930s. Both black and white women pressed at state and national levels for legislative action to abolish laws that required paying to vote. In addition, women filed a series of lawsuits to try to effect change. By the 1950s, the intersection of sexist and racist customs and law was apparent to those fighting the poll tax. This created collaborations between activists involved in the poll tax movement and those active in the broader civil rights movem ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 09:32:01 -0500 From: "Create Unlimited eBooks" Subject: The ULTIMATE Ebook Creator (WOW) The ULTIMATE Ebook Creator (WOW) http://stopmal.live/bN3Y2Qw0wEEmzrUpsNl7-Xh5bTjgCc7p5hjlqd1_hiTVNnVw http://stopmal.live/FpjDleOo7kav870darfqRhk2bHuYCheKROUCFccgtIUwiiui nths of 2009; in comparison, the project lost only 4,900 editors during the same period in 2008. The Wall Street Journal cited the array of rules applied to editing and disputes related to such content among the reasons for this trend. Wales disputed these claims in 2009, denying the decline and questioning the methodology of the study. Two years later, in 2011, Wales acknowledged the presence of a slight decline, noting a decrease from "a little more than 36,000 writers" in June 2010 to 35,800 in June 2011. In the same interview, Wales also claimed the number of editors was "stable and sustainable". A 2013 article titled "The Decline of Wikipedia" in MIT Technology Review questioned this claim. The article revealed that since 2007, Wikipedia had lost a third of its volunteer editors, and those still there have focused increasingly on minutiae. In July 2012, The Atlantic reported that the number of administrators is also in decline. In the November 25, 2013, issue of New York magazine, Katherine Ward stated "Wikipedia, the sixth-most-used website, is facing an internal crisis". Milestones Cartogram showing number of articles in each European language as of January 2019. One square represents 10,000 articles. Languages with fewer than 10,000 articles are represented by one square. Languages are grouped by language family and each language family is presented by a separate color. In January 2007, Wikipedia entered for the first time the top-ten list of the most popular websites in the US, according to comscore Networks. With 42.9 million unique visitors, Wikipedia was ranked at number 9, surpassing The New York Times (No. 10) and Apple (No. 11). This marked a significant increase over January 2006, when the rank was 33rd, with Wikipedia receiving around 18.3 million unique visitors. As of March 2020, Wikipedia ranked 13th among websites in terms of popularity according to Alexa Internet. In 2014, it received eight billion page views every month. On February 9, 2014, The New York Times reported that Wikipedia has 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors a month, "according to the ratings firm comScore". Loveland and Reagle argue that, in process, Wikipedia follows a long tradition of historical encyclopedias that accumulated improvements piecemeal through "stigmergic accumulation". Wikipedia blackout protest against SOPA on January 18, 2012 On January 18, 2012, the English Wikipedia participated in a series of coordi ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6134 **********************************************