[Peace-discuss] FW: DNC Headquarters Ambushed by Protesters Claiming Party 'Sold Out'

[David Johnson]

DNC Headquarters Ambushed by Protesters Claiming Party 'Sold Out'

November 16, 2016 | Posted in News
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Written by: Anne Meador 

 
<http://www.dcmediagroup.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/30921689771_2afbac3b6
f_z.jpg> Description: Protesters dressed as movers try to push through
security at the DNC./Photo by Anne Meador

Protesters dressed as movers try to push through security at the DNC./Photo
by Anne Meador

Washington, DC - 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.

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.

The Democratic Party tried to stay in power by "manipulation and fear," said
Kevin Zeese of Baltimore-based Popular Resistance
<http://popularresistance.org> . "Why did they lose? Because they ignored
the people. Obama pushed the TPP [Trans Pacific Partnership]
<http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2015/11/16/trans-pacific-partnership-protest-u-s
-trade-representative-accused-of-betrayal-of-peoples-interests/>  on people.
That's why we're moving the DNC out of government."

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."

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.

"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, tiptoed around Black Lives
Matter
<http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2015/08/12/hillary-clinton-pays-lip-service-blac
k-lives-matter-closed-doors-2/> ," she said. She objected to President Obama
<http://thefreethoughtproject.com/obama-signs-bill-creating-blue-alert-warni
ng-system-protect-cops/> 's signing of the "Blue Lives Matter" bill, 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.

 
<http://www.dcmediagroup.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/30893267822_dd2d354b5
3_z.jpg> Description: People have been "betrayed" by Democrats who serve
corporate interests, protesters say./Photo by Anne Meador

People have been "betrayed" by Democrats who serve corporate interests,
protesters say./Photo by Anne Meador

"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.

The DNC <http://usuncut.com/politics/dnc-media-rigged-primary-clinton/> 's
alleged collusion with the Hillary Clinton campaign to quash Bernie Sanders
in the primary concerned the protesters, but it is only a piece of a larger
picture of corruption,
<http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2015/09/11/debbie-wasserman-schultz-architect-de
struction/>  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 Backbone Campaign <http://backbonecampaign.org> . "The DNC is
not serving people, it is serving corporatocracy."

The protesters' ire was not limited to the DNC. Only two days before, a
group organized by Popular Resistance and Backbone Campaign blockaded a busy
interstate highway
<http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2016/11/15/activists-block-dc-interstate-stop-tr
umpism-message/>  in Washington, DC to bring attention to racism, xenophobia
and policies serving the wealthy they believe a Trump administration will
embody.

Description:
http://www.dcmediagroup.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/31035764715_5f0d027daa
_z.jpg 

"Movers" with hand truck set up cardboard box blockade

 

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