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G_j

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2. almost 1000 people have already been arrested in nonviolent civil disobedience

Reply to randys1 (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 06:16 PM

Jun 2014

And the Moral Mondays have started up again. There will be more arrests tomorrow I expect.

This is not a violent reaction, it is a powerful and disciplined movement along the lines of MLK Jr.
The GOP only wishes they could call it violent.

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