Prominent civil rights leaders, the Revs. Jesse L. Jackson and Bishop William J. Barber II, were among about 200 people arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday while protesting for Congress to end the filibuster, protect voting rights and raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The Washington Post reports, Jesse Jackson among … Read more
Saturday was the fourth and final day of the Poor Peoples Campaign’s Georgetown-to-Austin Moral March For Democracy. Hundreds of marchers made their way to Austin, TX, on Saturday as thousands more joined them at a protest for voting rights. At Saturday’s rally, country music legend Willie Nelson led more than a thousand spectators in singing “vote … Read more
Above: Rep Joyce Beatty, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was arrested on July 15 at the Hart Senate Office Building while protesting in favor of voting rights legislation. Update to Senate Democrats Drafting A Revised Voting Rights Bill Under Intensifying Public Pressure. The Huffington Post reports, Texas Lawmakers Sound The Alarm: Senate Dems Lack Urgency … Read more
Update to Moral Monday at Sen. Sinema’s Office: End the Filibuster – Pass the For the People Act: Having citizens lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech, to assembly, and to petition their senator for action on voting rights at her office arrested for trespass, as occurred last month, Activists Arrested For A … Read more
Like President Lyndon Baines Johnson before him, President Joe Biden is going to need a push from civil rights and voting rights activists to create a groundswell of public pressure on him to act on voting rights legislation, in this case, to call on the Senate to reform or repeal the Jim Crow relic Senate … Read more