1.媒体来源:
The Hill
2.完整新闻标题:
Capitol Hill arrests in pro-democracy protest hit 1,240
国会山民主抗议逮捕1240人
3.完整新闻内文:
Capitol Police said Monday that it has arrested more than 1,000 people demonst
rating for reforms to how Americans vote and campaign in elections.
国会警察周一表示，目前已经逮捕了超过1000名诉求改革竞选投票的抗议者。
Police say 1,240 people have been arrested in the last seven days. That includ
es approximately 300 people on Monday alone on the Capitol's east front steps
that lead to the Rotunda.
警察称，过去的七天逮捕了1240人，其中包括了周一在国会东侧通往圆形大厅阶梯处的近
三百人。
Protest organizers pegged a higher estimate of at least 1,300 arrests.
抗议组织者则预估逮捕人数将超过1300人。
Most of the arrested protesters have been charged with unlawful crowding and o
bstruction.
大部分的抗议者都被指控非法拥阻。
People arrested during the protests include actress Rosario Dawson, multiple t
op staffers for the liberal Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Lawrence
Lessig, a campaign finance reform advocate and Harvard professor who briefly
ran for president in this cycle. Also among those arrested on Monday were the
two founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, as w
ell as top officials with the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the AFL-CIO and NAACP.
被逮捕者包括了女演员Rosario Dawson……（等一些人）
Democracy Spring, the group organizing the protests, is calling on Congress to
vote on bills to reform campaign finance laws, modernize voter registration a
nd consider President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court.
民主之春团体组织了这次抗议，呼吁国会投票表决改革竞选资金的法案，将选民登记现代
化，以及考虑Obama总统对最高法院的提名。
，
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has expressed solidarity with
the protests, writing on Twitter last week that "Americans understand that ou
r gov’t is dominated by big money. Glad to see people taking action to restor
e democracy.”
民主党总统候选人Bernie Sanders对抗议者表达了关切赞同，他上周于其Twitter写道：
美国人民了解我们的政府被大财团所控制，很高兴看到人们对重建民主而行动。
More than 400 people were arrested during the first sit-in on the Capitol's ea
st front plaza last Monday. Multiple protesters also made their way into the C
apitol through an official tour last Friday and tied themselves to scaffolding
in the Rotunda; 12 were subsequently arrested.
在上周一于国会东侧广场的第一次静坐中，有超过400人被捕。一些抗议者通过参观办公
的方式进入了国会，并且将其自身捆绑在圆形大厅的建筑排栅上，12人随后被捕。
4.完整新闻连结 (或短网址):
http://goo.gl/bBg8TE
5.备注:
美国政府在处理抗议与规则问题上的示范。另外，这次美国媒体报道也不是很多。
再附上上周CNN报道的网址
http://goo.gl/NzCl5S