Disenfranchised


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Referring to any person or cultural group with no political, social, or economic power
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Disconnected, disadvantaged, and disenfranchised: Explorations in the digital divide.
Closing the digital divide with service-learning
* Felons who have served their sentence are not the "last disenfranchised class." Citizens of the nation's capital have been disenfranchised since 1801.
Time served, time to move on
citizens, they will combine a desire for 'payback' with an ability to blend easily into American culture." Moreover, he charged, "Saudi money has been funneled into the American Muslim Foundation, which supports prison programs," reiterating that America's "alienated, disenfranchised people are prime targets for radical Islamists who preach a religion of violence, of overcoming oppression by jihad."
Urban Islam and the war on terror: Amidst media sensationalism over the capture of American-born jihadis, few are examining why urban youth of color increasingly gravitate toward Islam. (To the Point)
In a letter to the Rutland (Vermont) Herald, Tamar and Martha Hennessy wrote, "Dorothy was an ardent believer in social justice, the rights of workers, and care of the disenfranchised. Her life's work was dedicated to picking up the pieces of human wreckage, the result of policies that continue to be perpetuated by the Bush administration....
Weapons of spirit or arsenal of deceit?
makes a good launch platform for talking about disenfranchised voters.
Who's Who
And so it does-to the benefit of conservative white Republican states." A failure to change the system, Wing notes, will leave people of color disenfranchised.
Colorlines magazine
In an interview with The Times, he warned that many people would be disenfranchised if an election was held while the disease was prevalent.
Archbishop in poll delay call
As the subsequent NAACP news-conference on November 29 concluded, thousands of voters--particularly people of color--were disenfranchised this election in violation of the Voting Rights Act and to the detriment of democracy.
Denying Voting Rights to People of Color
The Greens denounce these irregularities, as well as Florida's law denying felons the right to vote for the rest of their lives, a policy that has disenfranchised one-third of the black men in Florida.
Green Party Denounces Irregularities in Florida Vote
"We know that people are feeling disenfranchised in this area," said Lisa Daglian, a spokewoman for the borough president.
Master plan is offered for West Side's wasteland.(from Buckhurst, Fish and Jacquemart ()(Brief Article)
We might not agree with every personal choice Garcia made during the "long strange trip," but one cannot deny his role as a beacon for many disenfranchised youth looking for authentic peace, love, tolerance, and unabashed joy of life.
So many roads (1965-1995): Grateful Dead
Such streamlining is difficult to accomplish, because a favorite fear of physicians is that they will be "disenfranchised." Smaller executive groups are only acceptable if accompanied by assurances in written operational policies that the executive group's intent is to seek input from staff members and to communicate important decisions and actions in a timely manner.
Re-forming the traditional organization medical staff

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