Hundreds Arrested at Capital Protest on Voting and Campaign Finance
Source: MSNBC
Several hundred activists were arrested Monday afternoon during a sit-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to call for action on voting rights and campaign finance reform.
The mass civil disobedience, part of a week-long Washington protest known as Democracy Spring, aimed to demonstrate the depth of grassroots frustration at a political system that, participants said, is tilted toward the wealthy at the cost of ordinary Americans. It came as a growing number of observers are expressing concern about the direction and robustness of our democratic system. The first presidential election in over half a century without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act is approaching. Voting restrictions already have played havoc in the primaries. And voters in both major parties are expressing intense anger over a campaign finance system awash in big money donations.
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