Making Waves with Voter Registration in Prisons

Groundbreaking voter registration work by DPA and The Ordinary People's Society (TOPS), an Alabama faith-based nonprofit organization, has ruffled feathers in the state's political establishment. The Alabama Republican Party has raised concerns about possible voter fraud in response to legitimate efforts to register thousands ofeligible potential voters who are currently in prison and to raise awareness among formerly incarcerated people about their voting rights.

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Commute Crack Sentences in Time for the Holidays

To President Bush’s credit, two of the six individuals for whom he has most recently granted clemency were serving time for unjust crack cocaine offenses.  Sign this petition and remind him that he can expand that number by using his clemency power to end a drug war injustice.

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Fayetteville, AR, Votes on Marijuana Measure

Voters in Fayetteville, Arkansas, will have the chance to make adult marijuana possession the lowest law enforcement priority at the ballot box in November. This initiative is led by Sensible Fayetteville, a coalition of groups that includes the Alliance for Reform of Drug Policy in Arkansas.

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Put "Yes on 5" on TV

Recently, California’s major law enforcement groups tried  (unsucessfully) to get Proposition 5 — the largest sentencing and prison reform in U.S. history — thrown off the state ballot.  Opposition to Prop. 5 is mounting from some of the staunchest opponents of criminal justice reform in the state but, with your help, we'll reach TV audiences, make ourselves heard above our opponents' lies and fear-mongering and win in November.

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Ethan Nadelmann Meets Latin American Leaders

DPA Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann was invited to speak at the second meeting of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy earlier this month in Bogota, Colombia, where he met with the presidents of three Latin American countries. An extensive interview with Nadelmann was published in Brazil's leading newspaper, O Globo.