{"id":48298,"date":"2026-05-18T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48298"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:53:47","slug":"in-alabama-organizers-declare-day-one-of-mass-mobilization-to-stop-gop-attacks-on-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/in-alabama-organizers-declare-day-one-of-mass-mobilization-to-stop-gop-attacks-on-voting-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"In Alabama, Organizers Declare \u2018Day One\u2019 of Mass Mobilization to Stop GOP Attacks on Voting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) addresses voting rights supporters at the All Roads Lead to the South rally in Montgomery, Alabama on May 16, 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Labor rights and voting rights groups were among those who gathered in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama for the All Roads Lead to the South Day of Action.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Julia Conley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 16, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a developing story… Please check back for possible updates…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a show of resistance to the US Supreme Court\u2019s dismantling of the Voting Rights<\/a> Act and Republicans<\/a>\u2019 efforts to redraw congressional districts across southern states in a bid to retain power despite their party\u2019s unpopular agenda, labor and voting rights groups were among those that arrived in Montgomery, Alabama Saturday for \u201cDay One\u201d of a mass mobilization against GOP<\/a> lawmakers who they said are intent on \u201cresurrecting Jim Crow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No Kings Movement and \u2018All Roads Lead to the South\u2019 to Protest GOP Voting Rights Attacks<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Alabama, South Carolina Join GOP Push to Dilute Black, Democratic Districts<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While groups including the Movement for Black Lives and National Jobs With Justice boarded buses in Atlanta Saturday morning to join more than 250 organizations at a rally at the Alabama State Capitol, other organizers began the\u00a0\u201cAll Roads Lead to the South\u201d National Day of Action<\/a>\u00a0with a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in\u00a0Selma<\/a>, Alabama\u2014the same site of the historic 1965 voting rights march that became known as Bloody Sunday.”We started here because we wanted to stand on sacred ground and consecrate ourselves,” said organizer LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the group Black Voters Matter. “You cannot fight hate with hate, you have to stand in the spirit of love, and so look around\u2014this is what love looks like.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter post: https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/broadcasts\/1pJdRbdXRoNKW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The march and rally were organized in response to a ramp-up of efforts by the Republican Party<\/a> and right-wing<\/a> courts, including the far-right majority on the US Supreme Court<\/a>, to redraw electoral maps in states including Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mass mobilization was organized after the Supreme Court<\/a> handed down its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais last month, effectively eviscerating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which has held that voters of color have the right to legally challenge racially discriminatory congressional maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court this week allowed<\/a> Alabama to revert back to an electoral map with just one majority-Black district out of seven, despite that fact that 26% of Alabama residents are Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tennessee Republicans also adopted<\/a> a new electoral map that splits up the state\u2019s only majority-Black district, and the Missouri Supreme Court approved a congressional map that targets<\/a> the state\u2019s 5th District, represented by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving in Montgomery, Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones (D-52) said voters across the South need \u201ca united front… to take on this new Confederacy… We know what the intent of these governors and state lawmakers are, to dismantle every gain made during the\u00a0civil rights<\/a>\u00a0movement and dismantle the crown jewel of the civil rights movement, which was the Voting Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rep. @brotherjones_<\/a> in Montgomery: \u201cWe\u2019re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March\u2026 because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/op87I4g8hT<\/a><\/p>— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) May 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>