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Politicians including Governor Kathy Hochul and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Ortez addressed protestors at Union Square.

”Yesterday night the far-right Catholic integralism won over art, but not over love,” Anna Von Hausswolff writes.

From videos of the protest, many in attendance appear not to be wearing masks, but there are plenty of American flags being waved.

Protests against systemic racism and police brutality continue throughout the country, and the Unite NY protest, urging solidarity with Portland as Trump sends federal agents to quell protests there, kicked off from Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza on Saturday, July 25.

87 people were arrested during the protest altogether, and charged with a felony and two misdemeanors.

”We no longer have a stage,” open mic host Nathan Donovan said. ”We have a ‘protest platform.”

While the NYPD descended on the march late in the day, arresting at least four people and using pepper spray, they could not sully the entirety of the march or the meaning behind it.

Two NYPD SUVs drove right into a crowd of people protesting George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in late May, a horrific incident, captured on video, that Mayor de Blasio downplayed at the time.

Several thousand more people rode bikes for Black Lives Matter in NYC than the estimated 6,200 who showed up at Trump’s Tulsa, Oklahoma rally the same day.

Richmond melodic hardcore greats Strike Anywhere are finally back with an urgent, vital new soundtrack for the resistance. Vocalist Thomas Barnett speaks to us about watching longtime punk and activist values enter the mainstream, the catalysts for the band’s comeback, and more…