Chuck Darwin‘Not welcome in our city’: protesters march on Republican convention
“Today is about telling the Republicans that they’re not welcome in our city,
they’re not welcome anywhere and anywhere they show up, we’re going to show the opposition to their ideas,” Flores told the Guardian.
“Basically the entire platform of the Republicans this year is they want to increase border restrictions,
they want to deport immigrants,
they are attacking LGBTQ rights,
and they stand with Israel, and we don’t stand for any of that.
So that’s why we’re marching today,” said Emily Chu, a 22-year-old student who had traveled by bus from Minneapolis.
Sasmit Rahman, who traveled to Milwaukee with Chu, said:
“The Republicans know that their policies aren’t popular with people. You can visibly see that:
they’ve been walking back their public anti-abortion sentiments because they know that it’s not popular.
It doesn’t change the fact that they’re still going to put it in place, but like,
they’re scared of how the people are going to react when they put unpopular policies in place.”
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