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The movements are rare stirrings of impassioned, liberal political action, writes Herbert Buchsbaum at the New York Times, in a region where conservative control of government is as solid as cold grits and Democrats are struggling for survival more than influence. The focus of these demonstrations was health care, but the rhetoric of those protesting touched upon a wide swath of issues, from education to voting rights to womens health. Spinning off from the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina—which organizes weekly demonstrations and grew into a massive march of more than 80,000 people last month—the demonstrators are borrowing the notion of morality- and agenda-based protests, including issues that resonate with the poor and minority populations in the South.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:17:24 +0000

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