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Related: About this forumSanders Marches for Voting Rights
Source: BernieSanders.com
ARLINGTON, Va., U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday joined civil rights demonstrators on the last leg of a 860-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to call on Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act.
Sponsored by the NAACP, the Journey for Justice crossed Memorial Bridge into Washington, D.C., and ended on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Sanders denounced cowards in Statehouses who enacted new laws designed to suppress turnout on Election Day by making it harder to register to vote. Republican state lawmakers have exploited a Supreme Court ruling that gutted the landmark Voting Rights Act.
We are a few steps from Arlington Cemetery where people fought and died for democracy, not to make it harder to vote, Sanders said before the last leg of the march began. Our job is to make it easier to vote. Our job is to try to increase voter turnout. And these Republican governors are afraid when people get into the ballot box and they dont want them to vote. Were gonna change that.
https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-marches-for-voting-rights/?source=twitter09152015&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=twitter09152015
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Sanders Marches for Voting Rights (Original Post)
demmiblue
Sep 2015
OP
K & R! There he goes, wearing his comfortable shoes and walking the walk!
beam me up scottie
Sep 2015
#2
KoKo
(84,711 posts)1. K&R....
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)2. K & R! There he goes, wearing his comfortable shoes and walking the walk!
You go, Bernie!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)3. Finally... Some Comfortable Shoes...