At the Grand Army Plaza entrance to the Plaza Hotel today a crowd of police, media and protesters waited for what many protestors call a bigot, Donald Trump to arrive for a 10k table, 1k a plate event put on by the Pennsylvania Republican Party fundraiser with Trump as the Key speaker.Michael Morrill Executive Director of KEYSTONE PROGRESSMichael Morrill from Keystone Progress spoke to me and the NY Times saying, “we stand for small Democratic values. We’ve never gotten involved in primary and certainly not in Federal elections at any level but, something happened this week that was so beyond the pale that we decide we had to get involved. And that was the outrageous and Unconstitutional bigoted statements by Mr. Trump proposing banning Muslims from immigrating to the United States or entering the United States”. “WE THOUGHT THAT WAS SO UN AMERICAN AND SO DESTRUCTIVE TO OUR NATION AND TO PENNSYLVANIA WE HAD TO SPEAK OUT”. “We put an online petition asking the PA Republican Party to dis invite Donald Trump as keynote speaker. THIS IS THE ONLY PERSON THEY ASKED TO SPEAK. THEY SPECIFICALLY CHOSE THIS MAN OUT OF ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS IN THE NATION TO REPRESENT THEIR VALUES AND THEIR VIEWS”.“ORGANIZE AND EDUCATE, THAT IS HOW WE END THE HATE”Organizations involved in action last night and today; Families for Freedom Black Alliance for Just Immigration- BAJI Queer Detainee Empowerment Project- QDEP Responsible Endowments Coalition Showing Up for Racial Justice- SURJ Council on American-Islamic Relations- CAIR BAYAN- USA Jews For Racial and Economic Justice- JFREJ Black and Pink Jewish Voices for Peace Arab American Association of NYTrump supporter yelling, “Next President of the United States, Mr Donald Trump”Marni Halasa, Performance Artist, outside Plaza Hotel protesting the PA Republican Party for having Trump as Keynote speaker after making remarks about banning Muslim refugees from entering the U.S.
Interview with Michael Morrill from Keystone Progress
Cat Watters is a journalist, blogger, videographer, photographer and radio host on Peoples Internet Radio. She is an expert at photographing, filming and editing footage of street protests, street actions, political rallies, and other events. Cat writes for Democracy Chronicles from Brooklyn, New York and you can tune in to her radio show at Peoples Internet Radio every Tuesday from 6 to 8pm EST.
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