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Seen & Heard: No Ban. No Wall. Rally for Immigrant Refugee & Muslim Solidarity

On February 5, 2017, 2,000 or so people gathered in Columbus Park, close to the Peace Bridge that links Buffalo to Canada, to express their love for and solidarity with their immigrant and refugee neighbors, many of whom feel theatened by the Trump administration’s effort to close US borders to Muslims generally and immigrants from seven contries particularly.

Higgins vs. Trump Republican 2018

Some Washington Democrats with whom we speak imagine that their internal struggle will be resolved soon, and that the Bernie Sanders “insurgents” will triumph over the Hillary Clinton “pragmatists.” Other Washington Democrats believe that the advent of socialists in the Democratic Party is either a distraction or a disaster, and that the explicitly identity-focused coalition of groups that was the Clinton coalition, funded by Hollywood and Wall Street, just narrowly missed national victory, and that it would be completely nuts to disassemble what almost worked.

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