'Our democracy is on life support. There's no time to ask nicely.' WV_Rising
May 23, 2022
Pro-democracy campaigners in West Virginia and Arizona on Monday risked arrest at sit-ins in downtown Charleston and Tucson, demanding that Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema end obstruction of their party's agenda and allow the Senate to pass reproductive rights, climate action, and voting rights measures.
Campaigners representing a coalition of groups including West Virginia Rising, For All, Democracy Initiative, and Progress Arizona blocked traffic in central areas of the two cities, accusing the two senators of"laying waste to our future."was organized as President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act is stalled in the Senate.
Manchin pressured the Democratic Party last year to remove several key provisions from the legislation last year before announcing in December that he would not support the agenda. Manchin and Sinema's refusal to back filibuster reform has also stood in the way of the Democrats' goals of passing the
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