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Media Blackout! 300+ Arrested at ‘Democracy Spring’ Sit-In at US Capitol (Video)

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Protesters reach the US Capitol © Caleb Maupin / RT
 
Over 300 of “Democracy Spring” protesters have been arrested on the steps of the US Capitol. Thousands of activists arrived in Washington DC, after a 10-day, 140-mile (225km) march from Philadelphia, to protest the role of money in politics.

“People are fed up with the system, they are fed up with the corruption, and we want free and fair elections,” Cenk Uygur, host of the TV show Young Turks and one of the participants in the protest, told RT. “This is our core American right.”

“The fight begins today. It doesn’t mean we win today. But in the end, we always win,” Uygur said. “Progressives have never lost. We won in civil rights, we won in women’s rights, we won in gay rights, and we’re going to win in getting our democracy back.”
 

With the goal “to claim the democracy we were promised”, various advocacy groups headed up by Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen and 99Rise.org, plan to hold a “mass sit-in” over the next eight days in the hope of persuading Congress to tackle“corruption of big money in politics and ensure free and fair elections”, according to campaign director Kai Newkirk.

“We hope that it will be the beginning of the end of the corruption of our democracy,” Newkirk told RT, stressing their main pledge is to make Congress pass “four bills that we’re pushing for,” referring to the Government by the People Act, Fair Elections Now Act, the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015 & Voter Empowerment Act of 2015, and the Democracy for All Amendment.

 
While the first day of the sit-in includes everyone, organizers have drawn up a schedule of events with each day focusing on a different theme and demographic, including elders, young folks, students, and activists from racial justice and labor solidarity movements.
 
The sit-in concludes April 16 with Climate Justice Day – followed by a “Democracy Awakening” through April 18, a series of events closely aligned with spring that will be “as integrated and complementary as possible”, says the campaign’s website.

Source RT YouTUBE Democracynow

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    • The Zodiac Report, Nancy R Owens

      Trump2016!

    • Don - 1

      Real news about the USA is only on Russian TV.

      • VirusGuard

        Yes you are right and this is why most americans think that there government is fighting ISIS when in fact they are behind ISIS.

        Google and Twitter are the world worse at censoring the news and to make it look like left is right now that twiiter has taken to getting it’s money by protecting fee paying customers and google, well google with it’s A.I wants to rule the world

        Our poilce are the enermy of the people and are sent in boots first and kicking but their day will come when the people turn on the pigs

    • eXChroma

      Hilarious reporting though. They haven’t won any of those claims, they were given them at the perfect moment to distract people from noticing other more important things. You have been given the superficial approval of a non important entity ruling over you. Some victory. They could easily have done those things at any moment in history, they just wait until its useful. Not to mention, the only chains stopping any of those rights were on yourself, as you ask for them to be taken off from those with no real power to do so. You have ingrained in yourself the need for their approval to do thing they have no business in. It’s hilarious as a spectator, yet sad.

      The fact that people were allowed to be arrested is even more hilarious. Some sticking together they did. 1-2 hundred cops with no intention of shooting into a crowd arrest hundreds of people? Such people allowing them to be taken away make me sick. Fight back if they want to assault your rights. Unless the people as a whole are mostly agreeing you should be going to jail, then it doesn’t matter if you are at gun point or not, you should not be going. See them shoot, I dare them. The thousands of people would kill them for it if they had any real intention changing things. Useless masses.

      • HadronicDiviner

        You’re basically right on, besides the violence.

        However, violence may be hard to avoid, especially considering this period of April is VERY closely connected to blood sacrifice. :idea:

        Perhaps Democracy Spring is scheduling these protests in hopes of bloodshed? I mean, it IS croneySoros-backed

        I pray for peace regardless.

        What do y’all think?

        `~-.shaivam::oneLOVE .-~`*

    • lucid_ity

      Love the effort, but they will not win this one. The system is corrupt to the core and must completely fail first

    • VomitO

      I wonder if they’re using the same rebels they used for “arab spring” which they smuggled arms to (fast & furious) through a Mexican Warlord who keps escaping.? You know, Baghdadi, the guy Obama ordered released 3 months prior to his unilateral decision to pverthrow gaddafi, the same guys that is now the Calipf of ISIS.

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