Tag: politics
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President’s Day protest
Philadelphia PA 17Feb2025 All content by Rich Gardner unless otherwise noted. What are MAGA people after? Well, what they most appear to enjoy is “owning the libs.” Right now, what MAGA people really want to do is to be culturally dominant. To have liberals, and especially liberal women, look up to them. A favorite myth…
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Friday @ Fetterman’s Rally
7 Feb 2025 Before the election, there was a discussion between Palestinians and those Americans that supported them. There were two factions, one that supported Vice-President Kamala Harris and those who were planning to vote for Jill Stein or Donald Trump or those who would simply stay home. How have things worked out for that…
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Women’s March 2025
18Jan2025 Washington DC At Farragut Square, about a mile & a quarter from the Lincoln Memorial, where the march ended up.In the Trump White House Archive (covering his first term), the title is “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” As he begins his second term, how actually good was the President at keeping promises? Ehh, not so…
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Rally to dismantle deportation system
18Dec2024 Protesters want the Biden administration to take steps to dismantle the US deportation system before Trump takes office. About a hundred immigration activists and supporters met in the shadow of the Liberty Bell on Wednesday to demand that President Joe Biden use his remaining time in office to take apart the nation’s deportation mechanisms.…
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Rally and lunch, Fridays @ Fetterman’s 6Dec2024
A larger-than-usual crowd in really cold weather to protest Senator Fetterman’s position on the war in Gaza. On December 4th, Amnesty International concluded Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. This follows several other organizations concluding the same thing, but okay. According to AP, Trump won Pennsylvania by 50.4%. Harris got 48.7%, Stein (strongly pro-Palestinian) not…
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Rally for Vice-President Harris with Governors Shapiro and Whitmer
29Jul2024 Arriving at the rally for Vice-President Kamala Harris, featuring Governors Shapiro (PA) and Whitmer (MI). As of July 1st, the decision of President Joe Biden to step aside and to be replaced as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate by someone or another was pretty much a done deal. By July 23rd, Vice-President Kamala Harris…
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Pro-Palestinian Demonstration
26Apr2024 Our usual line-up on the sidewalk in front of Senator Fetterman’s office. The Friday@Fetterman’s group has a website here. There was indeed some civil disobedience on April 11th that resulted in a dozen arrests. There were about 50 people in the demonstration as a whole, but only a dozen were arrested fo their action.…
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Rally at Fetterman’s office over Gaza
23Feb2024 Another rally at the office of Senator Fetterman. The Fridays @ Fetteran’s group has a Teach-in scheduled for March 8th. It’s free, but they require registration. It begins at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House at 8:30Letter from Fridays @ Fetteran’s (PDF) concerning how to write a letter to the Senator. to press him…
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Rally over Gaza
2 Feb 2024 Our usual line in front of the office of Senator Fetterman (D-PA), protesting his position on Gaza. On his press release, his first paragraph is a good one. But the second paragraph, which speaks of the need to eliminate Hamas, really needs updating to acknowledge that Palestinian residents of Gaza are on…
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Pro-Palestian Protest
8 Mar 2024 Fridays at Fetterman’s enhances its usual protests in front of Senator Fetterman’s office by adding a teach-in at the local Friends Center and by then making a march to his office. We boosted our usual attendaence by many times our usual number. We used the sidewalk most of the way. Senate Majority…
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