Crowds gathered in Charlottesville, Va., on Wednesday night, for a vigil and peaceful
march against hate and violence.
Not exact matches
While I do not — repeat, do not — condone the mean - spirited comments leveled
against them, you must grant that the anger is quite understandable after two years of a constant drumbeat of attack and
hate directed at our President personally, as well as his policies, and at the people who support them, including even people in the Republican Party itself who do not
march in robotic lockstep with the extreme right teabagging agenda.
Hundreds of borough residents and a crush of elected officials representing Queens and beyond
marched down College Point Boulevard last weekend to speak out
against hate crimes following the brutal beating of an openly gay College Point man earlier this month.
The DisruptJ20 activist network is holding a series of events throughout Washington, D.C. on January 20, including the Queer Resistance on J20, a queer anti-inauguration party at a security checkpoint, at 6:30 a.m. at McPherson Square Park; the Movement for Black Lives #J20 Resistance at the Inauguration — a combined movement of Black Lives Matter DC, Baltimore BLOC and the Movement for Black Lives — at 7 a.m. at MPD Police Headquarters; the «Festival of Resistance:
March Against Trump» at 12 p.m. at Columbus Circle to reject forms of
hate and oppression such as racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia and ableism; and «Preparing for the Trump Era: What Anarchists Are» on January 21 at 5 p.m. at The Festival Center.
NEW YORK CITY — Bill de Blasio and other leaders will
march in a parade up Fifth Avenue on Monday to honor Christopher Columbus amid backlash
against over the mayor's review of city monuments that some call as symbols of
hate, including statues of the Italian explorer.
Also at noon, Bay Ridge for Social Justice, Fight Back Bay Ridge, Arab American Association of New York, South Brooklyn Progressive Resistance, and The Campaign to Take on
Hate hold the MLK Day
March Against Racism, Poverty and Militarism, 414 80th St., Brooklyn.
By attending the
march and speaking out
against oppression and
hate in continued activism, I am attempting to live out these values in my own life.
In
March, the UN blamed Facebook for playing a leading role in spreading
hate speech
against Rohingya in the Myanmar conflict.