“No Kings Day” – A Celebration of Democracy protests planned Saturday

Matthew Crumley,

ALBANY, Ga. – The independent, non-partisan group, “Dougherty Loves Democracy” has announced the following:

This Saturday, from 10 a.m. to noon — at an Albany location that will be announced early Saturday morning — we will be waving signs on a road-side sidewalk in support of our nation’s constitution and in opposition to the unprecedented militarized parade planned in Washington D.C. the same day. We are holding onto the location announcement because a local Facebook group is already spreading misinformation related to the event.

This will be the fifth peaceful gathering our group has had in Albany since March.

We will stand up for:

  • The due process rights of everyone in America,
  • The rule of law shared by all three branches of government,
  • The nearly 800 jobs lost at Turner Job Corps Center and 200,000 jobs lost in federal agencies that provide life-saving services,
  • A moral foreign policy that does not cause war and starvation, while making enemies of allies and allies of enemies (Yes, I mean Russia.),
  • An end to the trade war and blanket spending cuts that will hurt Georgia farmers while increasing death by starvation in places like Gaza and Sudan – who are now more likely to become more closely aligned with hostile nations as they try to survive war and conflict.

We stand against:

  • Authoritarian rule by executive order, :
  • The use of the military to police the cities,
  • Masked police whisking legal residents away to distant and foreign prisons,
  •  A government that wants to tell teachers what to teach and students what to read,
  • Policies that attack the science used to prevent disease and track hurricanes in favor of those that empower authoritarian rule and enrich the most wealthy,
  • A Big, Ugly, Authoritarian Spending Bill that cuts health care spending and life-saving services while saddling future generations with trillions of dollars of debt needed to give tax cuts to the wealthy.

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