Arrests, sit-ins, shouting — activists plan a week of nationwide protest to fight Graham-CassidySinc
Arrests, sit-ins, shouting — activists plan a week of nationwide protest to fight Graham-CassidySince early March, when the first Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act was introduced in the House, activist groups have driven millions of phone calls and thousands of protesters to Washington.To push for the bill’s defeat, they led numerous rallies on Capitol Hill, occupied Senate offices, shouted in the Capitol building — and even learned, if they made enough noise, senators could hear them outside the Capitol.Whether that activism is remembered as a force that helped drive the defeat of “repeal and replace” will be decided in the next week. And organizers plan to employ all their past tactics over the next few days. Read more. -- source link