To close #Selma52 anniversary events we're at the Dallas County Courthouse where @ncnaacp's @RevBarberII & AL's @SenHankSanders are speakingpic.twitter.com/C8tdwdVPB4
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To close #Selma52 anniversary events we're at the Dallas County Courthouse where @ncnaacp's @RevBarberII & AL's @SenHankSanders are speakingpic.twitter.com/C8tdwdVPB4
You can livestream the symposium on voter suppression here: http://www.breachrepairers.org/livestream/
It was in large part thanks to the brutal Bloody Sunday events that the #VRA was finally passed #Selma52 #TheMarchContinues #RestoreTheVRApic.twitter.com/DpUjPrRLe7
"52 years ago battles, beating, and blood outside this courthouse created the tension the country needed to pass the VRA" - @RevBarberIIpic.twitter.com/IK8pZunGmu
"52 years ago they came to make the nation do what was right bc you can't suppress vote of anyone without hurting us all" - @RevBarberIIpic.twitter.com/ZJXbTVJrbf
"In 2016, the real fraud was not voting 2x or out of precinct but the rigging of voting by racial gerrymandering" -@RevBarberII #Selma52pic.twitter.com/vz8ORurcRb
"An election without VRA hurts brown & black, LGBTQ & poor white people, bc electing extremists means no progressive policy" - @RevBarberII
"We come here to #Selma52 to remember so that we can leave here to fight" - @SenHankSanders, speaking on a panel about voter suppressionpic.twitter.com/fVlYBoUQKi
Bloody Sunday was instrumental in passing the #VRA. 52 years later we #ReturnToSelma to demand that we #RestoreTheVRApic.twitter.com/RKVOrvtEAJ
"As the South goes, so goes the nation. Selma is a sacred example of the South leading the nation to its better self" - @PendaHair #Selma52pic.twitter.com/0S3lBQnFrl
52 years after Bloody Sunday, "voter fraud is a lie & voter suppression is alive." We must #RestoreTheVRA marchers gave their lives to passpic.twitter.com/x1npLB0uKP
"People ask if voter ID laws impacted election: in WI they disenfranchised 300,000 people; the president won by 20,000 votes" - @AriBerman
"People want to come to #Selma52 to say it's changed. But voter suppression didn't end on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, it spread" - @AriBermanpic.twitter.com/jFCUutozUa
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