BREAKING: West Virginia faith leaders & citizens are shutting down MLK Way in our state capitol. As King family have said––No #MLKDay celebration without legislation. We're making Good Trouble to tell Joe Manchin: fix the filibuster + pass the John Lewis Freedom to Vote Act now! 
As President Biden said, the GOP assault on voting rights & fair elections is the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War. Manchin himself said “inaction is not an option.” We are nonviolently disrupting business as usual to say the Senate cannot wait any longer.
While Manchin emulates the freedom-obstructing error of the white moderates King decried as "more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice,” I & others here aim to follow the white people who joined MLK in nonviolent struggle––some even giving their lives––to realize justice for all.
UPDATE: All 9 of us who were arrested for nonviolently shutting down MLK Way in Charleston to call on Manchin to fix the filibuster + pass the John Lewis Freedom to Vote Act are out of police custody. Thank y’all for the support. We must escalate Good Trouble until victory!
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