“No taxation without representation!” You heard them cheering it at protests in the 60s and 70s – 1760s and 70s that is. You’ve read the slogan on D.C. license plates. Today, you get to shout it out in solidarity with a bunch of voting rights advocates.

Whether you think there’s something wrong with the fact that more than half a million Americans living in our nation's capital have no congressional voting rights or you just want a little more out of your lunch break than an overpriced salad and an unbearably long line at Cosi, come down to the Capitol for a Demand the Vote rally from 12:00-1:30 pm.

It’s an issue near and dear to Ben Adler’s heart – or at least near and dear enough for him to write an article and blog post about – and I think the folks at DC Vote have a good point:

People living in DC pay the second highest per capita federal income taxes in the country but have no vote on how the federal government spends their money.

Worse still, members of Congress routinely screw the District by overruling local laws passed by locally elected officials to pursue their own agendas while ignoring the welfare of D.C. residents. Head to the north side of Constitution Avenue between First and Second Streets NE to tell ‘em senators how it is.