Will Bunch is the national columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer -- with some strong opinions about what's happening in America around social injustice, income inequality and the government.
Many of the folks who began pouring into this city’s Union Park ahead of Monday’s major protest against U.S. support for Israel ’s war in Gaza traveled great distances, like the bus convoy that left Minneapolis and drove all night straight to the park, or a man I met who’d come from California … by train. Some were protest veterans like the Code Pink posse, on the march since George W. Bush’s Iraq War, and some were even boomers who’d marched against the Vietnam War.
Most of those who marched on the DNC Monday believe that is a genocide, and said that belief morally obligates them to speak out. It felt like the healthy red blood cells of dissent were trying to force their way through a clogged artery, crimped by the fatty tissue of a decadent republic.Carol Walker saw the infamous anti-Vietnam War protests at 1968’s Chicago DNC on TV, and in November 1969 she joined the roughly 250,000 people who descended on Washington, D.C.
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