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Several reproductive rights organizations will join forces to protest the Alabama Senate’s Tuesday floor discussion on House Bill 314, which aims to completely criminalize abortion without exception for victims of rape and incest. The only exemption is for the health of the mother. Doctors could face up to 99 years in prison for performing an … Continued

Memorial Day is supposed to be the day we set aside each year to honor the men and women who have died serving this country — the folks who fought to keep this place free and the shining “beacon on a hill.” This year, we celebrated with a giant middle finger to those brave souls. … Continued

Second Amendment supporters held a rally Saturday on the State Capitol grounds to protest against calls by some politicians and activist groups to impose further limitations on Alabamians rights to own, possess and carry firearms. The gun rights protest was part of a nationwide series of protests in state capitals across the country. The National … Continued

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Police departments aren’t messing around with protests of Confederate monuments. At a sparsely-attended protest in Montgomery on Monday evening against a Robert E. Lee statue that stands in front of a high school bearing Lee’s name, police officers outnumbered protestors by at least 6-to-1. In addition, Montgomery Public Schools … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, January 12, protesters demanded that Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore (R) be removed from office (again), this time for his vocal opposition to granting State marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Chief Justice Moore’s detractors held a raucous rally at noon at the top of the steps of Heflin-Tolbert … Continued

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter   Tuesday, July 28, protests were held in Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile attacking abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood’s Southeast President and CEO Staci Fox issued a statement in response saying, “This latest attack certainly isn’t going to stop us.” President Staci Fox said in a prepared statement: “For … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Saturday June 27, a rally is scheduled to be held in Montgomery to protest the removal of the Confederate flags from Confederate memorials in Montgomery on the sole authority of Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R). Karl Andreas Bodenheimer wrote on Facebook, “This Saturday Rain or Shine (no not … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Friday over 300 protestors gathered in Birmingham to demand that President Barack H. Obama rescind his decision to require that all employers must provide employees with free contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs through their health plans, even in violation of their consciences.  The administration is defining the religious exemption … Continued