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+ from this further article  (Click thru) “...Back in Oakland on Tuesday, as Democracy Now! was wrapping up at 6 a.m. Pacific time, Carroll Fife concluded: “We need to take speculation out of real estate, and we need to decommodify housing … we look forward to the fight.” Then they received a text message that the raid was underway, and rushed off to join the other mothers and their supporters on Magnolia Street. Police used a battering ram to break down the door of the house, terrifying the mothers inside before hauling them out.

Later that day, halfway across the country, six white candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination gathered in Iowa, one of the whitest states in the nation, for the final televised debate before the Iowa caucuses. Outside, Rev. William Barber was leading a “Moral March on the Debate.��� 

Barber and his Poor People’s Campaign are demanding that the candidates participate in a nationally televised debate on poverty, including the crisis of homelessness. The movement continues Martin Luther King’s final campaign, the Poor People’s Movement ,which he was launching when he was assassinated. More than 50 years later, from Chicago to Oakland to Des Moines, the fight continues…”

This is case where; “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Edward Abbey