Even the mayor’s taking to the streets

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Amanda Painter

Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and several members of the D.C. Council were arrested Monday when they sat down in the middle of a key intersection in the nation’s capital, blocking traffic to protest the federal budget deal between Democrats and Republicans. The proposed budget reimposes a Republican-backed ban on the District spending its own money to provide abortions to low-income women, and on needle exchange programs regarded as crucial to curbing the spread of HIV in D.C. — where the disease is considered an epidemic. Amy Goodman speaks to Mayor Gray about why he took to the streets in protest.

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One Response to Even the mayor’s taking to the streets

  1. Burning River Burning River says:
    April 14, 2011 at 9:46 am

    Street action will get media attention. That’s why I am so hot for it. The “media” is only “the enemy” when it is only covering “them”…so we are forced to street actions to get the coverage that town hall meetings just don’t generate.

    For the most part, liberals and progressives are intellectual, and like to read, think, talk, and negotiate. I have no adjectives right now for the others who are getting media attention for their insane, inhuman agenda with world views of a split pea, but they are getting it.

    So, may we non-violent, world and people loving attention getters rise up. Get out there. Get the cameras rolling, so that the rest of us know what you are doing and can support or join in.

    Thanks for posting, Amanda.

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