Community groups will rally for voting rights in downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts Saturday.
Drew Herzig of Indivisible Pittsfield says the event is in support of filibuster reform and federal protection of voting rights.
“The stake is our democracy in the United States," he told WAMC. "If Republicans are able to write the rules for voting, they will basically write democracy right off the agenda kind of thing. They know that they can't win if everyone has equal access to voting. So they're determined to restrict access to voting. They're determined to overturn election results. They're just basically going to destroy democracy in any way they can, because they know they can't win under a true democracy. So that's what we're up against here is the life or death of American democracy.”
The rally, which begins at 1 p.m. in Park Square, is cosponsored by Indivisible Pittsfield, the Berkshire Democratic Socialists of America, the Berkshire Democratic Brigades, the Berkshire chapter of the NAACP, the Four Freedoms Coalition and Greylock Together.
