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struggle4progress

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Sun Jun 19, 2016, 04:25 PM Jun 2016

Anti-Klan Rally in Mobile (AL)

BY JAMES GORDON
SATURDAY, JUNE 18TH 2016

MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) - Today a group of local activists gathered at Cathedral Square to protest the "Ku Klux Klan."

Organizers say the event follows a resurgence of the "Klan" in our area - and their message was pretty clear. "We are out here to send a message to the KKK that their kind of domestic terrorism will no longer be tolerated. They have been specifically targeting my community the transgender community by calling us abominations." said Delia Melody a local Transgender Rights Activist.

Today's event in Downtown Mobile follows several months of pro Klan flyers that have been appearing in people's yards from Fairhope to Midtown Mobile.

"The KKK seems to prefer to do their business in the dark and distribute these flyers in private and stalk around. We're going to come out in broad daylight and raise our voices and tell them that they are not welcome in our town they are not welcome and they need to take their corrupt ideology back to 19th Century where it belongs. We are here in an effort to unify different oppressed communities here in Mobile as well as any allied with those communities to get hate and bigotry which is on the rise here and in the U.S. Out of our cities and make it a safer place for people of color, the transgender and for our children" ...


http://local15tv.com/news/local/anti-klan-rally-held-in-mobile-aims-to-send-message

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