“I don’t see a lot of people asking for money to travel or coordinate caravans and cars to go to the rally, and I don’t see a lot of coordination in terms of circulating memes and promoting the event,” she told the Cut. She tells the Cut that she hasn’t personally observed the online mobilization that’s necessary for mass demonstrations, as much of the energy she’s seeing for these sorts of events is coming from the West Coast.
UNITE THE RIGHT DC ORGANIZER FREE
When denying Kessler the permit to hold the event in Charlottesville, the city wrote that his application “likely underestimates the number of participants,” and that “no reasonable allocation of city funds or resources can guarantee that event participants will be free of any ‘threat of violence.’”īut Joan Donovan, a researcher who has studied media manipulation and white supremacy for Data & Society, isn’t so sure that the white supremacists’ presence will be so large. There will certainly be more than 400 people in Lafayette Park, though, as that number likely does not account for counterprotesters and law enforcement. George Washington University, for example, will close down its health center and library on Sunday, and the University of Virginia will have increased police presence on campus throughout the weekend.Įven AirBnb has appeared to denounce the rally, issuing the following statement on Thursday: “When we identify and determine that there are those who would be pursuing behavior on the Airbnb platform that would be antithetical to the Airbnb Community Commitment, we seek to take appropriate action, which may include removing them from the platform.”Īccording to Kessler’s permit application, organizers are expecting approximately 400 people to join the demonstration. Local universities are also ramping up security in preparation for the large crowds that are expected to descend upon D.C. (According to the Washington Post, this plan is now off the table.)
“More than 80% of ’s membership is people of color, the very people that the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalist groups have killed, harassed and violated,” the union told ThinkProgress. Amalgamated Transit Union, which refused to provide transportation for the right-wing groups. Last week, for instance, a Washington Post report revealed a potential plan by the city’s metro system, in which “Unite the Right” attendees would be provided with separate trains to the rally - a plan that was leaked by the D.C. are already protesting in their own ways. “We are confident in the ability of our law enforcement officers to be prepared,” spokesman Mike Litterst said.Įven though the event has nearly official approval, people in D.C. Still, the National Park Service told ABC 12 that it must approve “First Amendment events.” event from the National Park Service in late June, but his permit was not officially approved until Thursday before the rally, the New York Post reports.Īccording to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the National Park Service released documents on Monday showing that Kessler’s confirmed speakers include neo-Nazi Patrick Little, former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, Suidlanders spokesman Simon Roche, Patriot Prayer follower Kevin Cormier, Revolutionary Conservative editor Avialae Horton, attorney Corey Mahler, and “pro-white” town manager Tom Kawczynski.īecause last year’s rally was so violent, it wasn’t as easy for Kessler to get approval the second time around. Kessler received initial approval for the D.C. Jason Kessler, the main face of the rally, initially wanted to hold the second demonstration in Charlottesville, but the city denied his request, which led him to the nation’s capital. The second Unite the Right rally will start in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., from August 11 to 12, the anniversary of the original in Charlottesville, Virginia according to the rally’s website, the main demonstration is planned to start at 5:30 p.m. Below, everything to know about the upcoming demonstration. This year, the event’s organizers are expecting there to be hundreds of people in attendance - but that’s not taking into consideration the number of people who will show up to counterprotest the rally.
(It is unclear what civil rights abuses the organizers think they suffered.) Its purpose, ostensibly, is to “protest civil rights abuses in Charlottesville,” where white supremacists brutally beat a 20-year-old black man and murdered Heather Heyer.
Exactly one year after Unite the Right, the violent white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, many of the same white-nationalist, paramilitary, and other right-wing groups are planning once again to come together for a (second-anniversary) rally - this time, in Washington, D.C.
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