#Abbie Hoffman

[263adder]

Don't Lose Your Vote! UK Edition

A snap general election could be called any day. This will be the first general election that requires photo ID if you vote at the polls (postal votes 📫 are unaffected by the Election Act 2022).

If you don't have an approved form of identification (list here), you can apply for a FREE voter ID photo card. Find out more below or use these 5 minutes to register and get your ID sorted instead ❎ because, and this is important to know, the government really doesn't want young people to vote.

The Explanation

Rishi Sunak, UK Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, may call a snap election in 2023. (A snap election is a vote brought in earlier ⏱ than the one that’s scheduled 🕐) The UK’s next general election (for MPs and the PM) is meant to happen between December 2024 and January 2025.

A snap election happens in as little as 25 days 😨 between the announcement (aka the PM asking the House of Commons’ to approve the dissolution of Parliament) and the vote 🏃‍♀️

You must be registered to vote - currently over 8 million people are not. Unlike other a democratic countries, the UK doesn’t automatically register all eligible voters. You have to do this yourself. Here’s a quick reminder of how to register:

Over the past 15 years, it has gotten harder for British citizens to vote:

Families can no longer register to vote as a household 🏡 so young voters must register themselves (Cameron Govt)

Colleges and universities are barred from registering students 👨‍🎓 (Cameron Govt)

The Elections Act requires photo ID 🤳 for anyone voting in person (Johnson Govt)

Local elections (for city and town governments) in 2023 were the first votes that required VOTER ID. According to the Electoral Commission, over 14,000 people were turned away from the polls because they had not heard about the change.

The House of Lords tried to amend the Elections Act before it passed, to include more common types of ID, such as bank statements, bills, student ID, library cards and much more. This amendment was struck down in the House of Commons. A lot of the IDs included in the approved list are more likely to be owned by older voters than younger ones. For example, a 60+ Oyster Card is acceptable ID but an 18+ Oyster Card is not.

Here’s the important thing to know: voters who don’t have a driving licence or passport or other approved forms of ID, can apply for a free voter ID photo card. Watch the video below to find out how!

And finally, please, for the love of our democracy, vote.

"Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles." Abbie Hoffman

#uk politics #vote #voter id #voter registration #united kingdom #rishi sunak #election act 2022 #general election #snap election #electoral commission #voter turnout #voter disenfranchisement #abbie hoffman #Youtube

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Patti Astor smiling ( on the right) with Abbie Hoffman.1968 Columbia University.

* * * * “It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

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“During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

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“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.” ― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

#Abbie Hoffman #Kurt Vonnegut #Neil Gaiman #1968 #Columbia University #protest #civil disobedience

[fuckingwhateverdude]

“working for the knife” by mitski ꙳ illustrations from “steal this book” by abbie hoffman ꙳ horoscopes for april 1st, 2023

#this one is either everything or nothing #i think shes giving #my art #my art tag #mitski #mitski art #working for the knife #abbie hoffman #horoscope #collage #collage art #mixed media #mixed medium

[lisamarie-vee]

#abbie hoffman #revolution for the hell of it #book cover

[oldshowbiz]

those way-out zany guys with their way-out zany ideas

#abbie hoffman #andy warhol #yippies

[oldpersonnewspaper]

Breaking news! 10,000 teens have the worst summer vacation ever in Chicago

#1968 #chicago 1968 #abbie hoffman #jerry rubin #phil ochs #dave dellinger #rennie davis #william kunstler #john froines #lee weiner #tom hayden

[kael-writ]

#Steal This Book #Abbie Hoffman #Shoplifting #libraries #book stores #book pirating #borrow this book #possible age test #1970s #Polls #hyperspecific polls

[putah-creek]

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ABBIE HOFFMAN

#abbie hoffman

[ethicopoliticolit]

Steal This Book is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. It preaches jailbreak….It implies that the reader is “ideologically set,” in that he understands corporate feudalism as the only robbery worthy of being called “crime,” for it is committed against the people as a whole. Whether the ways it describes to rip-off shit are legal or illegal is irrelevant. The dictionary of law is written by the bosses of order. Our moral dictionary says no heisting from each other. To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

—Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book (1971)

#abbie hoffman #steal this book #rule of law #democracy #protest #1960s #flower power

[voidingintotheshout]

“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” – Abbie Hoffman

#abbie hoffman #quotes #jumblr

[heidismagblog]

#rolling stone #rolling stone magazine #the fortieth anniversary #andy warhol #bob fass #abbie hoffman #the velvet underground #john cale #lou reed #sterling morrison #moe tucker #ad #saving grace #holly hunter

[abbiehoffman]

A full page advertisement for the legal defense of the the Chicago Eight. This rare poster size ad is taken from a 1969-issue of the counterculture newspaper Kaleidoscope #AbbieHoffman

#abbie hoffman #abbiehoffman #abbie+hoffman

[leftist-infighting]

Chapters: 1/1 Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tom Hayden/Abbie Hoffman

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it did take me a year and a half but i did eventually, as promised, finish and post some abbie/tom fic, lol

#abbie hoffman #tom hayden #trial of the chicago 7 #the trial of the chicago 7 #trial of the chicago seven #the trial of the chicago seven

[lisamarie-vee]

#abbie hoffman #steal this book #book cover

[oldshowbiz]

#abbie hoffman #the merv griffin show #vietnam war #censorship #talk shows #raquel welch

[bobdylanhater1965]

im reading a collection of phil ochs writing and in one of the essays (revolt on campus, 1965) he uses the pen name phillip abbot ochs. currently sitting in bed with 5 books surrounding me trying to figure out if this is a reference to abbie hoffman. girl help

#lee speaks #abbie hoffman #phil ochs #they didnt met until at least april 67 #i dont know if abbie was well known in june 65 when the essay was published #will continue to go down this rabbit hole