{"id":379849,"date":"2018-10-06T05:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T04:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/inside-the-mass-movement-against-brett-kavanaugh\/"},"modified":"2018-10-06T05:40:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T04:40:20","slug":"inside-the-mass-movement-against-brett-kavanaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/inside-the-mass-movement-against-brett-kavanaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Mass Movement Against Brett Kavanaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"introtext\"><strong>UPDATE, October 5, 11:04 a.m.<\/strong><span>: In a procedural vote, the US Senate on Friday advanced Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s Supreme Court nomination in a 51 to 49 vote. Sen. Lisa Murkowksi (R-AK) was the lone Republican to vote no, while Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) voted yes.<\/span><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care how many members they chase, how many people they harass here in the halls,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/politics\/mitch-mcconnell-calls-protesters-senate-hallways-says-gop-senators-wontbe-stopped-voting-confirm-brett-kavanaugh-week\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\">floor speech<\/a> Wednesday. \u201cWe will not be intimidated by these people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cthey\u201d McConnell referenced are those who have descended on Capitol Hill over the past month to protest the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. Progressive groups have organized rallies and vigils in Washington, DC, and around the United States opposing the nomination. But two groups, Women\u2019s March and the Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPD), have used more<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/article\/2018\/09\/06\/the-people-arrested-for-protesting-kavanaugh-that-you-havent-heard-about\/\">aggressive tactics<\/a>, culminating with Ana Maria Archila <a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/article\/2018\/09\/28\/this-sexual-assault-survivor-confronted-jeff-flake-over-his-kavanaugh-vote\/\">confronting<\/a> Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) in an elevator on live TV.<\/p>\n<p>That moment, which helped prompt Flake to pause the nomination process to allow a one-week FBI investigation, was the result of months of work. According to Women\u2019s March co-founder Linda Sarsour, the two groups started working closely together to plan a<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/article\/2018\/06\/29\/hundreds-arrested-direct-action-opposing-ice\/\">protest of President Trumps\u2019 so-called zero-tolerance immigration policy<\/a><span> in June, bringing several thousand women to the Hart Senate office building in Washington, DC. \u201cThe intention around that first action was: We wanted to take white women from this idea of marching to more high-impact direct action,\u201d Sarsour said in an interview with <\/span>Rewire.News<span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"banner_wrapper\" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"banner-247291\" class=\"banner subscribe-banner  banner-247291 bottom vert custom-banners-theme-default_style\" style=\"\"><a class=\"custom_banners_big_link\" href=\"#\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"banner_caption\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption_inner\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption_text\" style=\"\">\n<p><strong>Never miss another story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get the news you want, delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Plans to protest Kavanaugh began in early July, according to CPD national field organizer Darius Gordon. They began running actions immediately after Kavanaugh was announced as the nominee. \u201cWe knew that Kavanaugh was coming in to meet with senators around his confirmation, so our first action was actually&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/inside-the-mass-movement-against-brett-kavanaugh\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, October 5, 11:04 a.m.: In a procedural vote, the US Senate on Friday advanced Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s Supreme Court nomination in a 51 to 49 vote. Sen. Lisa Murkowksi (R-AK) was the lone Republican to vote no, while Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) voted yes. \u201cI don\u2019t care how many members they chase, how many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}