Counterprotesters gather as Boston Free Speech rally is set to start at noon
More than 100 people gathered outside the Massachusetts State House about 10 a.m. Saturday to chant and hold signs opposing far-right political groups as the organizers behind last year’s “free speech” rally in Boston prepared to march in the city Saturday afternoon.
The “free speech” rally and march is scheduled to start at Boston’s City Hall at noon, and is intended to be a protest against “far-left violence,” according to Boston Free Speech, the group organizing it. John Medlar, an organizer with the group, said the point of the march is to “call out the increasing censorship of the Internet and the violent suppression of discourse in the public square.”
Last year’s “free speech” rally drew an estimated 40,000 counterprotesters. Participants in Saturday morning’s much smaller rally chanted messages that included, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Nazi bigots go away,” and, “Nazis are violent. Remember Heather Heyer” — citing a woman who was killed last year while protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlotesville, Va.
“We are out here to remember those who were killed in the name of hate,” said a speaker from the Boston Democratic Socialists of America.
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