Progressives try to send a message of resistance through the RNC security barrier

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Source: NPR

JULY 16, 20245:00 AM ET

MILWAUKEE — While Republican delegates gathered on the floor of the Fiserv Forum on Monday for the first day of the RNC, progressive activists were assembling outside. With handmade signs decrying the “racist and reactionary Republican agenda,” demonstrators took to the streets to try and shout their message across the U.S. Secret Service blockades and fences surrounding the official RNC venues.

“It’s hot, but I’m glad we’re here,” says Lisa Taylor, who marched along with other members of the Progressive Labor Party.

Organizers predicted more than 5,000 people from around the U.S. would participate in the show of solidarity against Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee. The crowd that turned out for the march in hot and muggy downtown Milwaukee ended up much smaller than that, although a vast range of causes and issues were represented.

“Trump is what we get for our lack of participation,” worried Nadine Seiler, who traveled from Waldorf, Md., to stand under the hot sun with a colorful homemade banner and bright-blue eyeliner.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5040899/rnc-progressive-protesters-milwaukee-trump-presidential-election

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Protesters with March on the RNC gather for a demonstration during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday.


Nadine Seiler wears a "Stop Project 2025" shirt during the rally for March on RNC during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday.

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1. "Trump is what we get for our lack of participation". What she said is profound.

It's not too late to participate.

Schedule of events until election and ways you can contribute:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219111311

[ucrdem]

15. Thank you!

Yes it's a very active protest, with a hundred organizations taking part. But I don't think CNN will be covering it ...

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2. Classic...

...a headline that tries to connect peaceful protests to the "security barrier" situation of the shooting last week.

[ucrdem]

3. I don't think so.

There were several protests and at least one march that got as far as the barrier. The security barrier is real. Not sure where it is, but probably many blocks from the convention. SOP since whenever.

Don't overthink the question.


Protesters carried signs in support of Palestine, abortion rights, immigrant rights, and more.

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4. Republicans are fragile. They burn in the light

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5. yes, the protests are allowed up to the barrier...

...that's not a big deal and certainly not worthy of a headline or article.

My post was about how the headline tries to play on the public fear about how an extremely dangerous armed gunman was able to kill despite the "security barrier" and it tries to create a false impression that these peaceful protests must then also be dangerous.

[ucrdem]

6. Okay but the story is about a fight over moving the barrier closer.

Protesters lost that fight:

The Coalition to March on the RNC fought hard over the final route of the march, to ensure their chants would at least have a chance of being heard by RNC attendees, and sued the City of Milwaukee and the U.S. Secret Service over the security zone that would have pushed the protest too far away to be heard by RNC attendees.

Protest organizers lost that lawsuit, but reached a “handshake agreement” with the city to allow the march closer to the convention’s Fiserv Forum. But after all that, demonstrators say Republican delegates aren’t really the audience they need to reach.

It comes at the end of the article which is organized in reverse chronology so the first part wind up last. But the title is accurate.

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Protesters with March on the RNC gather for a demonstration during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024.

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7. Maybe the headline, which is what my post is about

....should be a quick synopsis of the story then, like a headline.

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8. It is a synopsis. And "security barrier" is a term used to describe security barriers, not SS protection.

Frankly I haven't heard the term applied to anything else including Saturday's shooting. At first they were called "cordons sanitaires" but security barrier is actually more accurate.

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9. wow, you really want the fear of these protests...

...to spread, don'ha?

[ucrdem]

10. Read the article. n/t

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11. My post was about the headline, as I've now mentioned 3 times.

[ucrdem]

12. Fine, now read the article already. n/t

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13. nah, not really interested.

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14. Yes I gathered as much.

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16. Yep, my only concern, as my post clearly stated...

...is the obvious attempt by the headine to paint the peaceful protests as being as dangerous as the shooter.

[ucrdem]

17. Obvious to you and only you. Nothing to do with reality.

But you be you!

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18. Thank you, I will continue to be me.

No other choice really.

But perhaps you should consider trying not to be everyone "but me", or at least not speaking for them.

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19. Well, the number of posts supporting your creative interpretation is exactly zero.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar kiddo.

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20. I actually have one rec more than your zero in this subthread...

...but you be you.

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21. Congrats, but I said posts, not recs.

And if there was anything to your nonsensical interpretation, you'd have gotten lots of support. Voice of experience speaking.

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22. listen, if you really need to be in denial about how much...

...the media manipulates the public mindset, I applaud your choice of rose-colored glasses.

[ucrdem]

23. That's another issue isn't it?

There's nothing wrong with this headline, and there's nothing suggestive about using "security barrier" in a news story about a security barrier. And I have yet to hear that term applied to the Saturday shooting. There was no security barrier at the Trump rally that I am aware of. It was a private event under the protection of the Secret Service and assorted local jurisdictions. Somehow they screwed up. Nothing whatever to do with this story.

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24. Nope, it is the specific issue I addressed in my post.