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January 21, 2022

Jamaal Bowman Among 28 Arrested at Peaceful Voting Rights Protest
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In Washington, D.C., police arrested 28 nonviolent demonstrators
Thursday after they held a sit-in protest outside the Capitol. Among
those arrested was progressive New York Congressmember Jamaal Bowman.
The activists had been holding a "hunger strike for democracy,"
demanding Senate passage of voting rights legislation. The measure
appears doomed after conservative Democrats Kyrsten Sinema and Joe
Manchin rejected a change to Senate rules that would have allowed its
passage with a simple majority.


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