In the spirit of Andy Goodman and the civil rights movement, John Lewis is leading a commendable sit-in for gun control – acknowledging Orlando and Sandy Hook – on the floor of the Billionaire’s “House.” Lewis announces a long sit-in. He isn’t going home…
On this issue and many others, it is time for the American people to fight back. Mass nonviolent civil disobedience in Washington and all over the country might force politicians to abandon vast unjust wars abroad, militarism (very hard…), and to acknowledge the fight for $15. This is a new time, and what John Lewis and others are doing right now, is promising.
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Spirit of History’: House Democrats Hold Sit-In on Gun Control
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I’m on the House floor with @repjohnlewis & Dems staging a sit-in to demand action on commonsense gun legislation
Outside, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made sure the rest of the country knew about what was going on inside the chamber with a hastily-arranged
press conference on the Capitol steps .
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