Democracy Is Busting Down the Doors of State Capitols Across the Country

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http://www.alternet.org/activism/democracy-busting-down-doors-state-capitols-across-country



Madison. Occupy… Now in North Carolina it’s Moral Mondays. In Texas it’s a filibuster, hundreds of thousands watching online, and the spectator gallery goes nuts when Republicans try to shut down the speaker. In Pennsylvania low-wage workers are sleeping in the capitol. In Nebraska it’s Pipeline Fighters. What’s happening in your state?

Madison

Corporate-funded Republicans took over in Wisconsin and passed laws restricting democracy and unions. People turned out at the state capitol in protest. Here are Wisconsin protesters chanting: “Tell me what democracy looks like. THIS is what democracy looks like!”

Occupy

Then people started showing up for Occupy. All over the country in late 2011 people were showing up at thousands of Occupy events across the country.

I was in Oakland when tens of thousands of people turned out for a day of protest in that city.

North Carolina: Moral Nondays

Now people are turning out every monday in Raliegh to protest cruel cuts by corporate-funded Repubicans.

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1. k/r

[graham4anything]

2. what do all the bad run states have in common-they are republican red state draconian governors

answer is easy- vote only democratic candidates in 2013 and 2014 and 2015 and 2016 and then life shall be perfect in America

the worst democratic person is better than the best of any other.

because if one doesn't, it is only show

had the republicantealibertarians not been voted into office in the first place, none of this would have happened

easy as pi

[rurallib]

3. Sadly, they come in after ALEC has ruined so many states

and has a tight grip on so many state legislators.

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4. Thousands To Rally In Austin With Sen. Wendy Davis On July 1

Thousands To Rally In Austin With Sen. Wendy Davis On July 1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023132883

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6. Ohio Protestors Rally Against Anti-Abortion Budget

Ohio Protestors Rally Against Anti-Abortion Budget
June 27, 2013 | http://www.alternet.org/activism/pro-choice-protestors-rally-outside-ohio-statehouse

Pro-choice advocates rallied outside the Ohio Statehouse today as the state’s General Assembly plans to votes on a budget that’s fraught with anti-abortion provisions, the Associated Press reports.

The protestors, organized by the Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, oppose budget provisions that would defund Planned Parenthood and restrict abortion clinics. They also oppose a last-minute measure that would require doctors to check for a fetal heartbeat before performing abortions, and to inform women a fetus’ statistical likelihood of surviving to full term.

As the budget already passed a Republican-controlled conference committee, it’s up to Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) to decide if the anti-abortion measures go through. The governor, who has a considerable anti-abortion record, could use a line-item veto to eliminate provisions in question.

“Let me make it clear, I will examine the language keeping in mind the fact that I am pro-life, period,” Kasich told reporters.

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