body armor, tasers and firearms joining me now is shannon, wha founder of moms to deman action shannon, thank you for being with us tonight. i never say to you, good to se you, because it s never good t see you, unfortunately my last guest, david pepper, said something reall interesting about tennessee, this whole thing in tennesse was actually about a gun violence protest, a vocal, non violent gun violence protest in the legislature, which is actually really good place t protest laws against the will of what mos tennesseeans believe, most tennesseeans, like mos americans, by an overwhelmin majority, support common sense gun laws but in places like kentucky, texas, and others, they re going completely the other direction. no restrictions are virtuall no distractions at all, on gun ownership. it s really important point which is that the vast majorit of constituents, including law enforcement, oppose thes dangerous gun extremist laws that are supported by gu makers and gun lobbyists,
that. we came together on twitter and helped rally people who were already organizing this at the grassroots nationwide. that was for tax day, april 15th, 2017. one of my biggest fears was that something would go wrong and there could be violence, and that violence would somehow taint what we were trying to do which was a peaceful, nonviolent protest, asking president trump to share his tax returns. and i want to say that any time i heard anyone say anything illegal, whether it was let s not file our taxes, i m like, no, you ve got to file your taxes, i was worried. we put in place all these kinds of guidance for people to help avoid any kind of violence. so in other words, if you are involved in she was encouraging people, she said there would be millions of people coming down, if you she may say she has no idea who liked that tweet, but there s no way she didn t know or worry about that. it was all over the news. we heard the testimony she said she never saw this new york time
April 16, 2021 last updated 13:2 ET Demonstrators wave the flags of different ethnic groups during a protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 18, 2021 (AP Photo).
The Return of Myanmar’s ‘Revolutionary Spirit’
When Myanmar’s military overthrew the democratically elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1, one resident of Yangon, the country’s largest city, was initially indifferent. A 34-year-old professional translator, he had lost faith in Myanmar’s public and its political classes long ago, he told me in a recent phone conversation. Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy, or NLD, seemed too willing to compromise with the military and make progress in half measures, as evidenced by the country’s flagging, decade-long transition to democracy.