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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerica needs 'imminent disturbance'
Source: Daily KOS
Reposted from Daily Kos Labor by Laura Clawson
The North Carolina legislature recently banned anything that might create an "imminent disturbance" in the legislative building. In other words, the legislature, faced with months of Moral Mondays protests, is cracking down, giving itself a rule under which to silence protesters.
Threatening protesters with arrest for peaceful demonstration is a hot Republican trend of the last few years, with bills proposed in Tennessee and Georgia targeting union picketing specifically.
But, as the video above points out, many of the moments that moved America forward relied on imminent disturbance. Not that North Carolina Republicans would necessarily see it that way.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/31/1302860/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Workers-America-needs-imminent-disturbance?detail=hide
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America needs 'imminent disturbance' (Original Post)
abakan
Jun 2014
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Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)1. That new rule should be tested in court. It is un-American.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)3. And we have a Fascist majority on the US supreme court.
They are decidedly anti-labor and anti-demonstration.
wandy
(3,539 posts)2. Another benefit of living in a GOP controlled state. Freedumb from imminent disturbance. n/t
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)4. They are not going to stop until
it hits them where they live. Its easy to think you are safe when you talk S--t about people and take their jobs and homes and destroy the economy. See they believe they are safe from Hurricanes, Tornados, Flooding, wildfires, Pest invasion. oh yeah. earthquakes. We watched all of them talk about the Government, but as soon as one of these things happen what is it they want to come to their rescue?? They are going to keep trying to silence the people and find themselves in a real rebellion. I would rather watch them implode.