At the platform hearing, Bob Moses as revolutionary as ever, says affirm right to vote.
At the Democratic National Convention Platform Hearing today he said:
To reinforce the intent and purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments, and to ensure that all of our citizens, including incarcerated persons, have full political rights, the SNCC Legacy Project and those of us who commit to organizing earned insurgencies of people power, champion, in opposition to Chief Justice Roberts, a people's narrative: that the nation rejected both slavery and its assault on human dignity, and altered its slave-tolerating Constitution to give the federal government power to protect the people's rights.
We ask that the national Democratic Party take a revolutionary stance: confirm the right to vote and make it explicit. Adopt in your platform the following statement.
"The national Democratic Party agrees to work for the following voting rights resolution.
Voting Rights Resolution
Section One - The people's right to representation being necessary to our republican form of government, the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be infringed.
Section Two - The federal branches of government shall protect this right. "
Thank you.
(applause)
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4605128/bob-moses-2016-democratic-party-platform-hearing
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parris_Moses )
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