Hudrends protest corruption in Washington DC (1 Viewer)

[wazoo11]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473874785/hundreds-protest-gerrymandering-campaign-finance-laws-on-capitols-steps?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160411

 

[bigmarc27]

"massive"

 

[bud29]

Know a few people involved with this, dunno if they've been arrested yet.

 

[Smack Tripper]

"massive"

wondered that too, is that the name of their group?

 

[jonessed]

wondered that too, is that the name of their group?

It's on the signs so quite possibly.

 

[chauncey]

So this is a protest organized and backed by a billionaire (who influences politics and media world wide with his money) to protest big money corruption in DC?

:whoosh:

 

[Mister CIA]

So this is a protest organized and backed by a billionaire (who influences politics and media world wide with his money) to protest big money corruption in DC?

:whoosh:

Admittedly I have not searched beyond the link in the OP, but who is this billionaire you speak of?

 

[jon_mx]

This is huge.  100 people in DC can not be ignored!  

 

[Rove!]

Know a few people involved with this, dunno if they've been arrested yet.

Probably a matter of time until they are audited...

 

[Mister CIA]

I heard this Kai guy speak on a radio interview a week ago or so. Based upon a snippet or two, I wholeheartedly support their cause to eliminate dark money from politics, which is neither a conservative or liberal position. More than anything else, it is for this cause that I support Bernie Sanders.

I hope it catches on.

 

[msommer]

I'm confused. Who is Kai and who is Hudrends?

 

[Mister CIA]

I'm confused. Who is Kai and who is Hudrends?

HTH:

More than 600 turned out for the protest, and more than 400 were arrested in closethe sit-in at the Capitol steps, U.S. Capitol Police reported. The nonviolent protest was led by Democracy Spring, a coalition of more than 100 progressive groups.

The protest was cheery and peaceful. Police blockaded the marble staircase with a chain and a cordon of officers. Demonstrators sat in front of the chain and on the plaza, talking, chanting, singing and taking pictures as police led them away one by one. Police, badly underestimating the potential crowd, initially brought a single bus to Capitol Plaza to haul the protesters away.


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Kai Newkirk with the group 99Rise speaks ahead of the Democracy Spring sit-in Monday in Washington.
Peter Overby/NPR



In a rally preceding the protest, organizer Kai Newkirk of the group 99Rise told the crowd that "we send a message — to everyone in our country who needs a government that represents us all — that this House is your House too, and now is the time to stand up and to take it back."

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I heard this Kai guy speak on a radio interview a week ago or so. Based upon a snippet or two, I wholeheartedly support their cause to eliminate dark money from politics, which is neither a conservative or liberal position. More than anything else, it is for this cause that I support Bernie Sanders.

I hope it catches on.

Me too, but its more of a "that's cute" effort.

Burn baby burn.  

 

[msommer]

HTH:

More than 600 turned out for the protest, and more than 400 were arrested in closethe sit-in at the Capitol steps, U.S. Capitol Police reported. The nonviolent protest was led by Democracy Spring, a coalition of more than 100 progressive groups.

The protest was cheery and peaceful. Police blockaded the marble staircase with a chain and a cordon of officers. Demonstrators sat in front of the chain and on the plaza, talking, chanting, singing and taking pictures as police led them away one by one. Police, badly underestimating the potential crowd, initially brought a single bus to Capitol Plaza to haul the protesters away.


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Kai Newkirk with the group 99Rise speaks ahead of the Democracy Spring sit-in Monday in Washington.
Peter Overby/NPR



In a rally preceding the protest, organizer Kai Newkirk of the group 99Rise told the crowd that "we send a message — to everyone in our country who needs a government that represents us all — that this House is your House too, and now is the time to stand up and to take it back."

Still doesn't tell me who that Hudrends guy is. Did he get arrested too?

 

[joffer]

Still doesn't tell me who that Hudrends guy is. Did he get arrested too?

Maybe the mystery billionaire?

 

[Insein]

Hudrends sound like a racial slur.