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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>DNC Headquarters Ambushed by Protesters Claiming Party ‘Sold Out’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>November 16, 2016 | Posted in <a href="http://www.dcmediagroup.us/category/news-2/">News</a> | <a href="http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2016/11/16/dnc-headquarters-ambushed-protesters-claiming-party-sold-out/#respond">No comments</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Written by: Anne Meador <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.dcmediagroup.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/30921689771_2afbac3b6f_z.jpg"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=199 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D243D8.3DA02CB0" alt="Description: Protesters dressed as movers try to push through security at the DNC./Photo by Anne Meador"></span></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Protesters dressed as movers try to push through security at the DNC./Photo by Anne Meador<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Washington, DC —</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Protesters dressed as movers charged the door of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters today, trying to gain entrance to the building. Security fended them off and barricaded the front steps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Protesters drove up in a U-Haul van wearing blue jumpsuits. They carried cardboard boxes and wheeled a hand truck to the front door, claiming they were hired movers. They unfurled a large banner reading “Betrayal” and recited chants such as, “We want democracy, not corporatocracy!” They alleged that the Democratic Party, headed by the DNC, has “sold out” to corporate interests, and corruption played a part in the Party’s election defeat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Democratic Party tried to stay in power by “manipulation and fear,” said Kevin Zeese of Baltimore-based <a href="http://popularresistance.org">Popular Resistance</a>. “Why did they lose? Because they ignored the people. <a href="http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2015/11/16/trans-pacific-partnership-protest-u-s-trade-representative-accused-of-betrayal-of-peoples-interests/">Obama pushed the TPP [Trans Pacific Partnership]</a> on people. That’s why we’re moving the DNC out of government.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The demonstrators taped signs to the building reading, “For Sale” and “Evict the DNC.” They arranged cardboard boxes labelled “Lesser Evils,” “Pay to Playbooks,” and “Empty Promises.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Washington, DC resident Toni Sanders says she believes that the Democratic Party took black people for granted in this election, assuming that they would vote for Hillary Clinton.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“If you really took us seriously as a people you wouldn’t push a candidate who backed [her husband’s] crime bill, who called us superpredators,” she said. She believes that Democrats didn’t respect black people’s intelligence. “They used Obama to guilt us, <a href="http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2015/08/12/hillary-clinton-pays-lip-service-black-lives-matter-closed-doors-2/">tiptoed around Black Lives Matter</a>,” she said. She objected to <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/obama-signs-bill-creating-blue-alert-warning-system-protect-cops/">President Obama’s signing of the “Blue Lives Matter” bill</a>, and said that Hillary Clinton didn’t have solutions for police brutality and police shooting of blacks either. She also didn’t address issues like creating jobs and problems in inner cities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.dcmediagroup.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/30893267822_dd2d354b53_z.jpg"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=199 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D243D8.3DA02CB0" alt="Description: People have been "betrayed" by Democrats who serve corporate interests, protesters say./Photo by Anne Meador"></span></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>People have been “betrayed” by Democrats who serve corporate interests, protesters say./Photo by Anne Meador<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“They didn’t give us a choice. This is supposed to be our party,” she said. “They hurt us so much more” with Hillary Clinton as the candidate. She said she voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary and Jill Stein in the general election.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://usuncut.com/politics/dnc-media-rigged-primary-clinton/">The DNC’s alleged collusion with the Hillary Clinton campaign</a> to quash Bernie Sanders in the primary concerned the protesters, but it is only a piece of a larger picture of <a href="http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2015/09/11/debbie-wasserman-schultz-architect-destruction/">corruption,</a> according to many of the protesters. “The DNC sold us out in the first place when they ran over Bernie,” said Peter Weston of Seattle-based <a href="http://backbonecampaign.org">Backbone Campaign</a>. “The DNC is not serving people, it is serving corporatocracy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The protesters’ ire was not limited to the DNC. Only two days before, a group organized by Popular Resistance and Backbone Campaign <a href="http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2016/11/15/activists-block-dc-interstate-stop-trumpism-message/">blockaded a busy interstate highway</a> in Washington, DC to bring attention to racism, xenophobia and policies serving the wealthy they believe a Trump administration will embody.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=640 height=424 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D243D8.3DA02CB0" alt="Description: http://www.dcmediagroup.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/31035764715_5f0d027daa_z.jpg"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Movers” with hand truck set up cardboard box blockade<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>