Global Courant 2023-04-30 05:43:01
Democratic Tennessee State Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, the two lawmakers evicted from the state House earlier this month, attended a protest outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner accusing the Biden administration of committing ” ecocide’.
Jones was spotted outside the Washington Hilton in the nation’s capital Saturday night as thousands of media members, politicians and celebrities gathered for the annual dinner where President Biden will speak.
Jones took part in a protest organized by the environmentalist group Climate Defiance that claimed Biden is committing “ecocide” after approving a 30-year oil drilling project in Alaska known as the Willow Project in March.
“@brotherjones_ is now supporting protesters,” Politico reporter Mia Camille McCarthy tweeted Saturday outside the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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TN State Rep. Justin Jones was spotted at a climate change protest outside the Washington Hilton on Saturday (Climate resistance)
“Show me what democracy looks like!” Jones was seen on video singing along with the crowd through a megaphone. “We are in a state of emergency in this country. We are fighting fascism. We are fighting a system that is trying to exploit the profits of the arms industry, the profits of the fossil fuel industry, the profits of health care for profit.” the life of our people.”
Jones’ appearance at the protest comes shortly after Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed Jones and the rest of the “Tennessee Three” to the White House after gaining national fame for calling for gun control by interrupting a house session following a shooting on a private property. Nashville Christian school that killed six people, including three children.
Jones and fellow Democrat Justin Pearson, who also attended Saturday’s protest, were evicted by the Republican-controlled legislature before eventually being reinstated.
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum (Leigh Vogel/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“You stand up for our kids, you stand up for our communities,” Biden told Jones, Pearson and Rep. Gloria Johnson, who was not evicted.
Biden described the eviction votes as “shocking” and “undemocratic”.
“Nothing is guaranteed about our democracy – every generation has to fight for it,” he said.
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President Joe Biden arrives to remark on new actions to advance environmental justice, in White House Rose Garden (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Harris made a surprise trip to Nashville earlier this month to meet with Jones and Pearson and was heavily criticized for not meeting the victims of the shooting.
Harris gave a speech at the church in which she offered her support to lawmakers and accused the GOP-majority governing body of destroying democracy by silencing the legislators and the voters they represent.
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In a very animated part of Harris’ speech, the vice president almost yelled, “It wasn’t about these three leaders. It was about who they represented. It’s about whose voices they channeled! Understand that!’
She made hand gestures in front of a rowdy crowd and asked, “And isn’t that what a democracy allows?” She continued, “A democracy says you don’t silence the people! You don’t oppress the people!”
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Fox News Gabriel Hays and Associated Press contributed to this report
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