{"id":20029,"date":"2016-04-18T20:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T01:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20029"},"modified":"2016-04-18T20:41:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T01:41:17","slug":"democracy-in-action-arrests-at-capitol-building-protests-top-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20029","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in Action: Arrests at Capitol Building Protests Top 1,400"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democracy in Action: Arrests at Capitol Building Protests Top 1,400\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Protesters have made their voices heard in Washington D.C. Over the past week, more than 1,400 people were arrested at the Capitol for participating in the Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring movements.<\/p>\n

Members of Democracy Spring began\u00a0protesting corporate financial influence<\/a>\u00a0in politics several weeks ago. They were soon joined by members of\u00a0Democracy Awakening<\/a>, who protested discriminatory voting laws.<\/p>\n

USA Today reported Monday on\u00a0the protests<\/a>:<\/p>\n

More arrests are expected Monday, the final day of protests when the focus of the non-violent protests turn to voting rights and timely consideration of \u2026 Merrick Garland\u2019s nomination to the Supreme Court. U.S. Capitol Police have arrested more than 900 protesters through Saturday. \u2026<\/p>\n

Those arrested were charged with violating a D.C. statute prohibiting \u201ccrowding, obstructing, or incommoding,\u201d which are misdemeanors, said police spokeswoman Eva Malecki. All of those arrested were Democracy Spring-related participants. Most were processed and then released on the scene.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Malecki said demonstrators remained \u201corderly and respectful,\u201d just as they had through the previous week.<\/p>\n

Democracy Awakening urged their protesters to wear their \u201cSunday best\u201d and to bring $50 in cash in anticipation of the planned arrests Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Groups including the\u00a0NAACP<\/a>,\u00a0Sierra Club<\/a>,\u00a0Greenpeace<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Every Voice<\/a>\u00a0participated in the protests. Actress Rosario Dawson, who has been\u00a0vocal about income inequality<\/a>, was\u00a0arrested<\/a>\u00a0Friday afternoon<\/a>. Ben & Jerry\u2019s founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, famous for their political activism as well as their ice cream, were seen\u00a0stamping bail money<\/a>\u00a0with the words \u201cNOT TO BE USED TO BRIBE POLITICIANS.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Great pic of Sierra Club pres Aaron Mair getting arrested as part of\u00a0#<\/span>democracyawakens<\/span><\/a>\u00a0this\u00a0morning! (by\u00a0@<\/span>Javier_SC<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Democracy in Action: Arrests at Capitol Building Protests Top 1,400\u00a0 Via\u00a0Twitter Protesters have made their voices heard in Washington D.C. Over the past week, more than 1,400 people were arrested at the Capitol for participating in the Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring movements. Members of Democracy Spring began\u00a0protesting corporate financial influence\u00a0in politics several weeks ago. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5957,13532,204,657,8738,865],"class_list":["post-20029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-arrests","tag-capital-building-protests","tag-democracy","tag-protests","tag-truthdig","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20030,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029\/revisions\/20030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}