"However, both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to Donald Trump's warmongering in Venezuela. From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we're seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power, said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city's Democratic Socialists of America chapter."
"The Democratic Socialists of America had also planned a national day of action to stop Trump's illegal war in Venezuela. They're murdering legal observers. They're being blatant about the reality that they're invading countries for oil. This is not a fringe radical thing. This is murder and illegal war crimes, said Rick Krajewski, the Pennsylvania representative, who represents parts of west Philadelphia, after addressing the crowd at the afternoon's protest."
On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, each with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. The morning march featured predominantly white older adults organized by groups behind the No Kings protests. The afternoon march drew a racially diverse crowd wearing keffiyehs and N95 face masks and was organized by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. Both marches demanded removal of ICE from American communities and an end to U.S. actions in Venezuela. Organizers connected recent ICE-related shootings and the federal seizure of Nicolas Maduro to a broader pattern of regimes using lethal force to retain power. More than a thousand related events were planned nationwide with actions in all 50 states.
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