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Pro-democracy voices on Free Speech Radio News

Submitted January 8, 2005 - 8:34 pm by Benjamin Melançon
"I'm from Ohio, and this is a lot bigger than civil rights.  This is not Republican or Democrat.  This is democracy.  So
If blacks lose, the rest of you also lose.  Democracy is for everyone," I. V. Featherstone told FSRN reporters Ingrid Drake and Ryme Katkhouda while he was in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate for democracy and against the confirmation of Ohio's electoral vote.

Drake and Katkhouda's report aired Friday on the January 7 Free Speech Radio News broadcast.  The introduction to the report described the situation:

After months of grassroots organizing, disenfranchised Ohio voters achieved a small victory yesterday when Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Senator Barbara Boxer joined their efforts to challenge the certification of Ohio's electoral college votes in Congress.

Groups organizing protests for the January 20th inauguration of US President George W. Bush received permits from the National Park Service that night, Free Speech Radio News also reported.

Will protests without impact follow voting without democracy, or will we regain the freedom and creativity of effective demonstration?

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