One of the Wisconsin 14 fled all the way to Atlanta to speak at the Democratic Party of Georgia's Jefferson-Jackson dinner. Lena C. Taylor said:
This is our wakeup call!
"Georgia, you know that struggle. I keep mentioning it, but how can you not. Because he was a man and he is a man who has spent his life working for civil rights. Congressman Lewis has fought those kinds of fights.
I say that because I need us to know: this is our wakeup call!
We're fighting the same fight that was fought forty years ago.
Martin Luther King died fighting for workers rights."
"So when the moment came that I had to choose whether or not I would stand up for workers as my governor and my colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle, decided to strip, to rape workers of their rights, there was no way that I could sit down: I had to stand up."
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP).
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