Marijuana Smokers Arrested for Civil Disobedience in Philadelphia [VIDEO]

[Counterpoint PA]

This is a video from my show Counterpoint PA, the only grassroots progressive newscast exclusively about Pennsylvania politics.

In Activism in Action, a lightning-round update on the latest progressive protests around the Pennsylvania, I talk about a marijuana legalization protest in Philadelphia that culminated in some protesters being arrested for smoking marijuana in an act of civil disobedience (including a video clip of the arrests), and two unique groups that came out a couple weeks ago to protest what then looked like America's imminent bombing of Syria: a group of Syrian-Pennsylvanians and the Granny Peace Brigade.

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Still to come:

The Breakdown

Sean Kitchen of Raging Chicken Press joins me to discuss his reporting on a proposal to gut the state's endangered species act to allow even more unregulated fracking in the state

(The Breakdown topic may change, but here's the good news - it's coming out today regardless and if the topic does change, the Sean Kitchen interview will still be coming out as a bonus video ASAP, so viewers will wind up with more to watch.)

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