Friday, April 28, 2017

Antifascists? Leave out the Anti!

The city of Portland, Oregon has canceled the Rose Festival Parade tomorrow, because it received an anonymous email complaining that
Set to march in the parade’s 67th spot this year was the Multnomah County Republican Party, a fact that so outraged two self-described antifascist groups in the deep blue Oregon city that they pledged to protest and disrupt the April 29 event.

Then came an anonymous and ominous email, according to parade organizers, that instructed them to cancel the GOP group’s registration — or else... 200 people would “rush into the parade” and “drag and push” those marching with the Republican Party.
Read more here.

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