Gwero: Maloto Wamba
Ndi Democratic Party atatsala pang'ono kulephera ku Congress, banja la a Martin Luther King Jr. Lolemba lidalumikizana ndi omenyera ufulu wachibadwidwe komanso atsogoleri achipembedzo ku Washington, D.C. kukakamiza opanga malamulo kuti akhazikitse malamulo okhudza kuvota.
Ntchito ya Tsiku la MLK imabwera pakati pa a kuwomba za zoyesayesa zopondereza ovota zotsogozedwa ndi nyumba zamalamulo zolamulidwa ndi Republican ndi Nthawi zonse Kulepheretsa kuchokera kumanja a Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) ndi Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) kuti asinthe malamulo a filibuster - lamulo la Senate la mavoti 60 lomwe otsutsa ali nalo. atchulidwa "Jim Crow relic" ankakonda kuchita chotsani kusintha kwakukulu kwa demokalase.
Chochitikacho chikubwera posachedwa pakukonzekera khama ndi a Senate Democrats kuti apititse patsogolo lamulo lovomerezedwa ndi Nyumba lomwe limaphatikiza Ufulu Wovotera Act ndi John R. Lewis Kupititsa patsogolo Ufulu Wovota. Mtsogoleri Wambiri Chuck Schumer ayesa kugwiritsa ntchito njira yothanirana ndi chitsutso cha GOP, koma izi zikhala zotheka ngati Manchin ndi Sinema athetsa zotsutsana ndi zojambula za filibuster.
Kampeni ya Deliver for Voting Rights, gulu lomwe lili kumbuyo kwa Marichi Lolemba, limati kuti Congress iyenera kutenga "mwayi wakale" kuteteza ufulu wovota.
"Kuyambira pa Nkhondo Yachiŵeniŵeni mpaka nthawi ya Jim Crow, filibuster yaletsa ndalama zodziwika kuti asiye misala, kuthetsa misonkho, ndikumenyana ndi tsankho la kuntchito," kampeniyo ikutero. "Tsopano ikugwiritsidwa ntchito kuletsa ufulu wovota. Zida za filibuster ndizosankhana mitundu ndipo ziyenera kupita. ”
"Palibe nthawi yodikirira," adawonjezera. "Timalemekeza Dr. King ndikuchitapo kanthu."
Damon Hewitt, pulezidenti komanso mkulu wa Komiti Yoona za Ufulu Wachibadwidwe Pansi pa Malamulo—m’modzi wa ogwirizana nawo pa ndawala ya ufulu wovota—anakana “chikumbukiro chodetsedwa, chonyozeka cha Dr. King” chimene “chisudzulidwa kotheratu ndi zenizeni zenizeni. za moyo wake” ndipo anagogomezera kuti “ntchito ya mtsogoleri wophedwayo inali yokhudza zokomera anthu—utsogoleri wotanganidwa umene unabweretsa dziko lathu kufupi ndi zolinga zake.”
“Dr. King’s activism idatiphunzitsa kuti iwo amene amasamala za ufulu ayenera kuchitapo kanthu kuti athetse kusamvana kulikonse komwe kulipo, kuphatikizapo kusuliza komanso kukhutira ndi momwe zilili,” adatero Hewitt. "Mu mzimu umenewo, komanso pa tsiku lokumbukira, tidzayesetsa kuteteza ufulu wathu wovota ndikupulumutsa demokalase yathu."
Pambuyo pa m'mawa wa "Peace March" kuyambira pa Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, okonza mwambowu anali ndi msonkhano wa atolankhani masana ndi okamba kuphatikiza pulezidenti wa Drum Major Institute Andrea Waters King, wapampando mnzake wa Poor People's Campaign Rev. Liz Theoharis, ndi Black Voters Matter woyambitsa nawo LaTosha Brown.
M'mawu Lolemba, a Brown adatchulapo mawu a MLK akuti "ufulu wovota ndiye maziko a ndale" ndipo cholowa chake "chogwirizana kwambiri ndi kudzipereka kwake kwa moyo wonse kuteteza ufulu wovota a Black."
"Pali chinyengo chankhanza chomwe, lero, Nyumba Yamalamulo ya ku United States yatenga tsiku latchuthi kuti ivomereze cholowa cha Dr. King pomwe mabilu awiri ovuta kwambiri omenyera ufulu wawo wovota - Law Freedom to Vote Act ndi John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act - akulefuka pa Senate. pansi," adatero Brown. "Ngakhale ana a Dr. King adayitana kuti izi zizikhala tsiku limodzi, osachoka. Martin Luther King III wanena kuti sipangakhale ‘chikondwerero popanda lamulo.’ Ndipo Bernice King adatipempha kuti tigwiritse ntchito tsikuli kulimbikitsa kusintha kwa filibuster kuti pakhale malamulo okhudza kuvota. Ndiye ife tiri.”
Ngakhale "kupita patsogolo kodabwitsa m'zaka zapitazi," a Brown adadandaula "zigamulo zowopsa za Khothi Lalikulu, kuchuluka kwa ziletso za ovota, komanso kusachitapo kanthu kwa Nyumba Yamalamulo, makamaka kuchokera kwa a Joe Manchin ndi Kyrsten Sinema - [zomwe] zikuwopseza kuti asintha nthawi. ufulu wachisankho komanso kuthekera kwathu monga gulu kulimbikitsa mphamvu ndikupeza phindu pazachuma komanso kusintha kwachilungamo."
“Lero si tchuthi chabe; ndikuyitanitsa kuti tichitepo kanthu paza ufulu wovota," adawonjezera. "Ngati Mtsogoleri wa Senate Majority Schumer ndi ena onse a Senate Democrats akufunadi kulemekeza cholowa cha Dr. King, ndiye kuti ayenera kupereka malamulo aboma ovota nthawi yomweyo. Ndipo ngati aku Republican apitilizabe kuchita bodza lalikulu ndikuthandizira kuukira kwapang'onopang'ono kumeneku, a Senate Democrats akuyenera kupita okha ndikupereka chopatula kwa wofalitsayo kuti apereke lamuloli. "
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