........“It’s ‘We the People’ who are going to continue to lead this revolution,” said Billy Taylor, a pro-Sanders activist who was issued permits to hold rallies on each day of the convention. “We are not going to vote for the demon named Hillary just because you are threatening us with the devil named Trump.”
The city of Philadelphia is projecting 35,000 to 50,000 demonstrators will gather at a half dozen sanctioned protest sites near the Wells Fargo Center each day of the convention, which opens Monday. A bulk of the permits issued by the city are to groups that indicated they are inspired by the Vermont senator.
The showing for the pro-Sanders demonstrations — whose organizers have received nine of the 28 permits issuedand are expected to draw the largest crowds, according to city officials estimates — could perhaps provide a sense of the road Clinton has in front of her as she tries to win over some of the Sander’s most rabid backers...........
...........Non-Sanders groups that were approved for permits by the city include Green Party candidate Jill Stein, the anti-gun violence group Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC, and the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). Other demonstrators, including members of the Black Lives Matter movement, did not apply for permits but are expected to hold protests in Philadelphia during the convention. Demonstrators will not be arrested simply for not having a permit, said Mike Dunn, a spokesman for Mayor Jim Kenney.
Cheri Honkala, the organizer for the Philadelphia-based PPEHRC, said her group’s demonstration is meant to put a spotlight on the plague of homelessness and poverty in the city. She also is planning a bean supper for Sanders delegates ahead of Clinton’s acceptance speech on Thursday, hoping that the bean-filled Sanders supporters will return to the Wells Fargo Center and greet Clinton with flatulence.
“The idea is to send the message to the Democratic Party establishment that the whole system smells, and it must be changed,” she said......
......Laurie Cestnick, a Sanders supporter who has been organizing protesters to come to Philadelphia through her Occupy DNC Convention July 2016 Facebook page, said she was disappointed by Sanders' endorsement of Clinton. But she said too much is at stake to keep activists like her from speaking out at the convention. Her group plans to gather on Monday in Camden, NJ—just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia—and march with several other groups to Philadelphia’s city hall and then on to the main protest site near the convention hall.
Cestnick, who volunteered at phone banks for Sanders in the Boston area, said the Facebook page she started to promote the Occupy DNC group’s protests has garnered more than 31,000 followers. Hundreds of activists associated with her group have reserved space at camping grounds in nearby south New Jersey for the days of the convention, she said.....
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The donk convention is going to be a bigger shitshow than the conk convention...
