{"id":3892,"date":"2012-03-12T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2012-03-12T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:56:12","slug":"nalc-activist-marching-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/03\/12\/nalc-activist-marching-for-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC Activist: Marching For Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NALC-News3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3893\" title=\"NALC News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NALC-News3-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/nalcactivistalert.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NALC Activist Alert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>March 4 marked the 47th anniversary of the historic Alabama civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, known as Bloody Sunday. That day, hundreds of civil rights activists were attacked by armed officers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they marched for racial justice.<\/p>\n<p>This past Friday, nearly 10,000 people finished a recreation of that march from Selma to Montgomery at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network, AFL-CIO members including letter carriers, civil rights organizations and community activists began marching 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery on March 4 in an effort to focus attention on new attacks on voting rights, immigrants\u2019 rights, workers\u2019 rights and education.<\/p>\n<p>These same tactics that were used almost half a century ago are being used today in several states, including Alabama, where some of the toughest anti-immigration laws in the nation were passed last year.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one states require all voters to show ID before voting, and 15 of these states require a photo ID.<\/p>\n<p>In some states, elimination of early voting could make it more difficult for the disabled and elderly to vote, and new requirements for using state-issued IDs will make it harder for college students to vote when they are not from that particular state.<\/p>\n<p>These new voter ID laws could make it significantly harder for 5 million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next step is litigation,\u201d Sharpton told a reporter. \u201cWe\u2019re going to start going to these 34 states where they have enacted discriminatory voter identification laws, and we will challenge the laws in court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NALC Activist Alert March 4 marked the 47th anniversary of the historic Alabama civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, known as Bloody Sunday. That day, hundreds of civil rights activists were attacked by armed officers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they marched for racial justice. This past Friday, nearly 10,000 people finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}