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Trump is sleeping in his own bed tonight for the first time since becoming president.
VISHAKHA DARBHA AND JAMES WESTAUG. 14, 2017 10:14 PM
Protesters gathered on the New York Public Library steps Monday evening in anticipation of President Donald Trumps arrival in the citythe first time he is scheduled to stay the night in his opulent home high in Trump Tower since becoming president.
The solidarity march was billed as a way to fight back against neo-Nazis and white supremacists who shook Charlottesville, Virginia, with violence on Friday night and Saturday. Those clashes turned deadly when white nationalist James Alex Fields Jr. drove through a crowd of anti-fascist counterprotestors, killing one and leaving at least 19 others injured. Fields has been charged with second-degree murder and was denied bail at his first courtroom hearing on Monday.
The events in Charlottesville triggered numerous anti-racism protests all across the country. Mondays protest in New York City drew activists from a coalition of groups, including Black Lives Matter and Gays Against Guns.
Marya Schock, a history professor, came to the protest with her father, Don, and her 11-year-old son, Elias. More and more people need to take to the streets until the vast majority of the American will is articulated, she said.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/watch-the-defiant-anti-fascist-hometown-welcome-for-trump-in-new-york/
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)global1
(25,270 posts)show Trump & his supporters that we won't tolerate White Supremacy, Nazism, Racism of any kind in this nation. This should happen before winter sets in and be a prelude to the 2018 Midterms where the America People can truly take back our government and make America great again. We need to pull out all the stops to take back the Senate & the House, throw out all the Repugs and prevent Trump from further destroying our government. The events of this last week should be the catalyst for waking up even his most ardent supporters to realize that Trump and the Repugs are out to destroy this Democracy. We need to stop them now before they inflict any more damage.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)and it will be up to us to do it, no one will come to our rescue we need to strategically plan something.
This is not us, and there were a lot of young men in that rally in Charlottesville. What gives there, why are they so filled of hate?? oh wait silly me, it's trump who is fueling the fire and has been since his campaign.
oppressedproletarian
(243 posts)trump gives them one
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)find help for these people??? I am curious, though many of them do have a chip on their shoulder, could it be anything like drugs, unemployment, social ills, be fueling these people or is it all racism?