The NAACP is occupying Jeff Sessions' Mobile office 'until he withdraws as AG pick or we're arrested

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

The NAACP is occupying Jeff Sessions’ Mobile office ‘until he withdraws as AG pick or we’re arrested’

Senate hearings are about to start next week in consideration of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, and heads of the NAACP and its Alabama branch have taken over Trump Attorney General pick Jeff Sessions’ Mobile office in preparation.

On Tuesday, President and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell Brooks posted a photo to Twitter captioned, “The @NAACP & @AlabamaNAACP are occupying the Mobile office of @jeffsessions–untill he withdraws as a AG nominee or we’re arrested.”

Cornell Wm. Brooks ✔
@CornellWBrooks

The @NAACP & @AlabamaNAACP are occupying the Mobile office of @jeffsessions--untill he withdraws as a AG nominee or we're arrested.@tvonetv

12:44 PM - 3 Jan 2017 · Mobile, AL
4,278 Retweets 6,713 likes

According to AL.com, the NAACP’s Tuesday action was one of many others being held across the state in opposition to Sessions’ nomination.

“As a matter of conscience, the NAACP has chosen not to remain silent on this critical matter. Our main concern is centered around the reality of voter suppression,” Hezekiah Johnson, head of the Birmingham NAACP said outside Sessions’ office in Birmingham.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/the-naacp-is-occupying-jeff-sessions-mobile-office-until-he-withdraws-as-ag-pick-or-were-arrested/

[a kennedy]

1. Holy crap, this is awesome......good for them.

[Hortensis]

19. Absolutely. My guess is they'll be arrested first,

but hopefully they'll help point the way for the Senate decision. GOOD for them.

[Maraya1969]

35. My hope is after they are arrested several more take their place!

[Hortensis]

36. Absolutely. Hopefully the NAACP are just the first in,

leading the way. The heightened vulnerability of POC should not distract from the reality that all Americans have a huge stake in not electing an AG who has abused his power by trying to railroad people into prison.

[Squinch]

2. That is FABULOUS! The protests are starting. I bet they are terrified just by what is happening

today!

[pangaia]

5. Wait who is terrified?

Could be both. ..for opposite reasons:&gt )

[Squinch]

6. Well, we're already terrified. I'm just happy we are throwing some terror back at them. I'm

sharpening up my pitchfork.

[pangaia]

7. Bravissimo!!

[redwitch]

3. Thank you NAACP!

This needs to happen all the time!

[pbmus]

4. People Power...

[NBachers]

8. I am absolutely thrilled to see this!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Salut!

And thank you!!

[turbinetree]

10. Lets remember that the human beings of the state and country own that office

and he really can't do much, he works for the NAACP ( he may not think so, but he does and if human beings think that he should not be something and is not qualified then they have every right to do so under the protection of civil disobedience and occupy that office) and they just poked him in the big old racists eye.


This is just great--------------taking back our government one office at a time

[Paladin]

11. Way to fire, NAACP!

Setting a fine example for an angry, active opposition to this repulsive new regime.

[mountain grammy]

12. Happy to see my monthly donation

to the NAACP legal defense fund being put to good use.

[Erasto]

13. Great Going!

This is wonderful.

[stage left]

14. Simply beautiful!

Thank you, NAACP

[ailsagirl]

15. Wish I could hug each and every one of them!!!

[Judi Lynn]

16. Bless the NAACP. They are speaking for all people of conscience.

[LAGC]

17. Hell yes, unprecedented resistance!

Never before in American history, an incoming Administration so unpopular, a Cabinet so corrupt, so much determined opposition.

Hope Trump plans on packing a lunch. Because he's going to have a lot more to worry about than his hurt feelers due to "mean" comments on his Twitter feed, immediately after Inauguration.

Believe that.

[orangecrush]

18. So it begins.

I hope this is all over the media.

[riversedge]

20. REC

[Gothmog]

21. I also oppose Sessions become AG

[7962]

22. Well we all know which it will be. nt

[Feeling the Bern]

23. Well, I guess you're going to jail, but Jeff Klan Sessions isn't pulling out.

[DLevine]

24. Good for them. Thank you NAACP! nt

[riversedge]

25. Best way to support them is for EACH of us to call your Senator (all strips) and let them know

you oppose Sessions as AG



Link
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Done and done.

He simply cant be allowed anywhere near that position.

[Madam45for2923]

28. Thank you! Yes good idea: Best way to support them is for EACH of us to call your Senator

Best way to support them is for EACH of us to call your Senator (all strips) and let them know you oppose Sessions as AG


Link
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/

[progressoid]

30. Wish that would actually work on my Senators.

Earnest and Grassley don't give a shit about what we want. I'm going to donate to the NAACP instead.

[Docreed2003]

27. Excellent!!

I applaud their courage and commitment!!

[brer cat]

29. Good for them!

K&R

[moondust]

31. Now being arrested.

Breaking news on "All In With Chris Hayes."

[ProudLib72]

32. Yep

being arrested, and I hope they are out in record time to do it all over again!

[lastlib]

33. Damn, sure wish I could join 'em!!

Is it ok if I'm with 'em in spirit? I LOATHE that GOPPOS!

[appal_jack]

34. Exactly the right strategy to confront racist Sessions. Go NAACP! k&r, nt.

[duhneece]

37. If I could go, financially & healthwise (nah, I'd go praying I could get my life saving meds in jail

Times like these I wish I could go....and to Palestine...I swear that's what I'd use any windfall $$ I got!