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Democracy Spring; April 11, 2016



Heavy on symbolism, this picture shows Lady Liberty in cuffs with her torch and tablet at her feet.

 Lady Liberty was one of many who set a new arrest record in Washington DC as police cuffed and took them away during the Democracy Spring demonstration. Thousands of protesters participated in a 140 mile walk from the Liberty Bell in Pennsylvania to the capital where they gathered to peacefully speak out against corruption and money in politics.

As of this writing the protest has been ignored by mainstream media except for a 35 second report by NBC. However, below the break, are the nearly 250 organizations who support Democracy Spring.

  • 350.org
  • 350 Hawaii
  • 99 Rise
  • act.tv
  • Adjunct Faculty Union
  • Adjunct Faculty Union Special Ops
  • AFL-CIO
  • African American Ministers In Action
  • Agenda Project
  • Alliance for a Green Economy
  • Alliance for Citizenship
  • Alliance for Democracy
  • Alternative Banking Group of OWS
  • Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
  • Amazon Watch
  • American Association of University Women (AAUW)
  • American Family Voices
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • American Postal Workers Union
  • American Sustainable Business Council
  • Americans Take Action
  • Andrew Goodman Foundation
  • Artful Activist San Diego
  • Avaaz
  • Ballot Box Tees
  • Ben & Jerry’s
  • Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
  • Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT)
  • Big Apple Coffee Party
  • BlueWave NJ
  • Brandywine Peace Community
  • Brave New Films
  • Bridgeroots
  • Broader Representation Advocacy Team (BRAT-PAC)
  • Campaign for America’s Future
  • Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy
  • Center for Biological Diversity
  • Center of Concern
  • Center for Earth Ethics
  • Center for Emergent Diplomacy
  • Center for Environmental Health
  • Center for Media and Democracy
  • Center for Popular Democracy
  • CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers
  • Center on Conscience & War
  • Chapel of Support for Women’s Rights & Justice
  • Church Women United in New York State
  • Clean Elections Texas
  • Coalition to Restore Democracy
  • CODEPINK
  • Coffee Party USA
  • Coffee Party Savannah
  • Collections B2NGO Missions
  • Common Cause
  • Common Cause Hawaii
  • Common Ground for Texans
  • Communications Workers of America
  • Conference of Major Superiors of Men
  • Conscientious Credit Funding Organization
  • Conscious Elders Network
  • Consortorium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals
  • Corporate Accountability International
  • Courage Campaign
  • CREDO Action
  • Crescent City Media Group/Open Democracy Project
  • Daily Kos
  • Dallas MoveOn Council
  • Dancing Roots Farm
  • DC for Democracy
  • DC Environmental Network
  • DC Fair Budget Coalition
  • DC Jobs With Justice
  • DC Latino Caucus
  • DC Vote
  • DC Working Families
  • Delaware Get Money Out
  • Demand Progress
  • Demand Universal Healthcare (DUH)
  • Democracy 21
  • Democracy for America
  • Democracy in Action Chicago
  • Democracy Initiative
  • Democracy Matters
  • Demos
  • DuBois – Bunche Center for Public Policy
  • Earth Day Network
  • Elder-Activists
  • Endangered Species Coalition
  • Energy Action Coalition
  • Equality Federation
  • Every Voice
  • Fair Elections Legal Network
  • Family Farm Defenders
  • Fellowship of Reconciliation
  • First Unitarian Church of Wilmington
  • Fix Democracy First
  • Florida Institute for Reform and Empowerment
  • Food & Water Watch
  • Franciscan Action Network
  • Free Speech For People
  • Friends of the Earth – United States
  • Genius Hip Hop
  • Get Money Out MD
  • “Go, Granny D!”
  • Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition
  • Greenpeace
  • Hightower Lowdown
  • Housatonic River Initiative
  • Humanist Leader Productions
  • In Granny D’s Footsteps
  • Innovative Digital Media Marketing
  • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  • Institute for Policy Studies
  • Interfaith Moral Action on Climate
  • Interfaith Power & Light
  • Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
  • Iraq Veterans Against the War
  • Jobs With Justice
  • Just Foreign Policy
  • Keystone Progress
  • Labor Campaign for Single Payer
  • League of Conservation Voters
  • Main Street Alliance
  • March Against Corruption
  • Mark Osten Consulting
  • Marriage Equality USA
  • Maryland Committee to Amend
  • Maryland United for Peace and Justice
  • MAYDAY.US
  • Money Out Voters In
  • Money Out, Voters In Wisconsin
  • MoneyOut! PeopleIn!
  • MoveOn Austin Council
  • MoveOn.org Civic Action
  • NAACP
  • National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
  • National Council of Jewish Women
  • National Family Farm Coalition
  • National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association
  • National LGBTQ Task Force
  • National Nurses United
  • National Organization for Women
  • Native Organizers Alliance
  • Nazareth Housing Dev. Corp.
  • Neighborhood Commerce Institute
  • NETWORK
  • Network of Spiritual Progressives
  • New American Leaders Project
  • New Economy Maryland, a project of IPS
  • New Progressive Alliance
  • New York for Democracy Coalition
  • NH Independent Voters
  • NH Rebellion
  • No Longer Strangers
  • North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)
  • North Jersey Public Policy Network
  • Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
  • Northwest Bronx for Change
  • Occupy.com
  • Occupy Wall Street (Occu-Evolve)
  • Office of the Americas
  • Oil Change International
  • Organic Consumers Association
  • Organize Now
  • Other98.org
  • Our Green Nation
  • OWS Special Projects Affinity Group
  • Pacifism 21
  • Participatory Politics
  • Pay 2 Play
  • Peace Action
  • Peace Education and Action Center
  • Peaceworkers
  • People Demanding Action
  • People For the American Way
  • PeopleNow.org
  • People Over Politics
  • The People’s Email Network
  • Pesticide Action Network
  • Phenomenal Diversity Dolls
  • Pride at Work
  • Progressive Change Campaign Committee
  • Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
  • Project Vote
  • Public Citizen
  • Ramsay Merriam Fund
  • Reclaim Our American Democracy (R.O.A.D.) From Big Money
  • Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
  • Restore Democracy Group NJPPN
  • ReThink Media
  • Roosevelt Network
  • RootsAction.org
  • Rootskeeper
  • Rootstrikers
  • Say No To Big Money
  • SEIU
  • Shalom Center
  • Sierra Club
  • Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Institute Justice Team
  • Small Planet Institute
  • Southern Anti-Racism Network
  • Southern Illinois People for Progress
  • Stamp Stampede
  • Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC)
  • Story of Stuff Project
  • Student Debt Crisis
  • SUMAR PLEGATS
  • Tabor House Community
  • Takoma Park Veterans of Foreign Peace (Peace Corps Vets)
  • Targeted Individuals Activism
  • thagreymatter
  • The Coalition to Restore Democracy
  • The Helpers Organization
  • THE US REBEL ALLIANCE
  • The Workmen’s Circle
  • Tigard First
  • Tikkun
  • Treasure Coast Florida Politics
  • unifyUS
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Urban Citizens for Social Justice
  • U.S. Action
  • U.S. Labor Against the War
  • U.S. Peace Action
  • U.S. PIRG
  • Unitarian Universalist Association
  • Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice in the National Capital Region
  • United States Student Association
  • United for Peace & Justice
  • Universal Health Care Action Network
  • UnKoch My Campus
  • Ursulines of Tildonk for Justice & Peace
  • Washington Peace Center
  • We Are Seneca Lake
  • Western Mass Jobs With Justice
  • We the People of Kansas
  • Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
  • Wisconsin Grassroots Network
  • Wisconsin United to Amend
  • Wolf Pac – The Young Turks
  • Women Donors Network
  • World Beyond War
  • WV Citizen Action
  • Young People For (YP4)