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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow many Russian cops are needed to arrest a teenaged girl for reading the constitution?
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Russian troops form a mob to arrest teenager Olga Misik while she reads Article 31 of the Russian constitution that guarantees the right to a peaceful protest.
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How many Russian cops are needed to arrest a teenaged girl for reading the constitution? (Original Post)
tblue37
Mar 2022
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ItsjustMe
(11,166 posts)1. So the Russian police pretty much
Mirror our own police here in the United states.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)2. I love acts of Civil Disobedience.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)3. That pic is from 2019 but her apartment was spray painted days ago.
DBoon
(22,285 posts)4. she should be remembered just like Upton Sinclair was
The famous novelist Upton Sinclair was arrested while reading the Bill of Rights on Liberty Hill in San Pedro, California, on this day, at a rally in support of striking marine transport workers, associated with the radical I.W.W.
The strike had idled about 90 ships in Los Angeles harbor. Sinclair had just begun to read the Bill of Rights when he was arrested, and a police officer exclaimed, Well have none of that Constitution stuff. Sinclair and others who were arrested and held incommunicado for four days. The radical I.W.W. had been crushed by the governments repression of dissent and radicalism during World War I. San Pedro is a part of Los Angeles.
The arrests led to the founding of the Los Angeles affiliate of the ACLU. The site of the arrest is commemorated by a state historical landmark. Sinclair is most famous for his 1906 novel, The Jungle, which exposed the unsafe and unsanitary conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry.
https://todayinclh.com/?event=upton-sinclair-arrested-for-reading-the-bill-of-rights