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A group of civil rights organizations will host another March on Washington in August to demand that Congress pass sweeping voting rights legislation and that state lawmakers halt efforts to enact bills that restrict voting access.
The announcement of the march comes one day after Senate Republicans blocked the For the People Act -- a signature voting and election bill that Democrats had pitched to counter state-level efforts. Republicans denounced the bill as a partisan power grab and a federal overreach into state voting and election systems.
The march, set for Aug. 28 with the theme "March On for Voting Rights," will mark the 58th anniversary of the historic March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous"I Have a Dream" speech. Marches are set to be held in Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix and Houston.
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i'll be there!
The Republicans’ complaint simply aren’t valid. As the protesters know, the bill wasn’t created to give Democrats a leg up over Republicans. It’s reforms will surely hurt the Republicans though, because it severely limits states’ ability to pass voter suppression laws. It also doesn’t overreach federal authority into state elections, because it only forbids states from passing voting laws which are unconstitutional.
We need a March everyday, until the peoples act is passed.
Heres an excerpt from a pamphlet published in the 1900s to help colored people vote it’s 2021 and we still haven’t figured it out, enough is enough.