Photos of Peaceful Charlottesville Vigil: Our Home, Not Their Home

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/charlottesville-vigil-candlelight.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Thousands of people gathered on the University of Virginia campus here Wednesday night in the glow of candlelight, striking a peaceful contrast to the torches wielded by white supremacists on Friday.

Marchers — many of them college students — sang hymns, gospel songs and other anthems of belonging, including “This Land Is Your Land,” “Lean on Me” and “This Little Light of Mine.”

The vigil was largely organized by word of mouth, and its leaders strove to keep the plans off social media. The result was a warm gathering that provided some small measure of relief to a college town left in turmoil by the weekend’s events, in which a rally on Saturday organized by white nationalists devolved into a series of street fights and ended in the death of a local woman.

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[dalton99a]

1. Beautiful.

[Raster]

3. I am sitting at my desk at work with tears rolling down my cheeks...

...this is truly beautiful.

[blueinredohio]

2. Love it

[Raster]

4. Kick for visibility!

[Expecting Rain]

5. Peaceful mass protests are the way to counter violent extremism

Beautiful!

[Raster]

6. They kept this a secret to minimize outside inteference...

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Rebecca Soistmann, 20, was present as one of “probably upwards of 20” student marshals, and handed out “two giant buckets’ worth” of what she estimated were 300 to 400 candles. She said in an interview on Thursday morning that the gathering had been organized by several university offices and community leaders, and that word of it had spread quickly from student to student.

The secrecy was maintained, she said, “to keep unwanted attention away from a night we wanted to be about Charlottesville and about bringing the community together.”

She said that while she had expected the gathering to be somber, she found it surprisingly uplifting.

“I’m not trying to say that this was something that healed everything,” she said. “I know that one criticism might be that it was a Band-Aid designed to make us all feel better. But I do think that it was a good way to bring the community together in light of everything, to make it feel more like a school and less like a site of hate.”

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[world wide wally]

7. How pissed were the people of Charlottesville when those "nice, peaceful" assholes were chanting,

"Whose streets? Our streets"

[Raster]

9. Do yourself a favor, and go to the link at the NYC...

...see the original published photo in all its glory. It filled my monitor and was AN INTENSELY WELCOME VIEW of all of the candles in the night and the wonderful multi-colored faces. There are several other good pics at the link.

And the reason the little Amerinazis were so embolden was that El Primo Amerinazi Douchebag, Richard Spencer*, went to school here.

[world wide wally]

11. We definitely got them outnumbered.

Now we have to get all of our people out to vote!

[Raster]

12. Yes, that is now our primary mission.

We need to VOTE. EVERY. REPUBLICAN. OUT. OF. OFFICE... dog catcher, state rep., Senator. Every last one.

[Squinch]

15. Did you see the photo at the link of all the demonstrators with the caption, "We replaced you."

[world wide wally]

19. No.. I want to the link in the OP

[Squinch]

8. That is just beautiful!

[Raster]

13. The largest image of the crowd is now my desktops at work.

[Squinch]

14. Don't miss the films of the people in Durham going to turn themselves in for

toppling the statue, while hundreds of people stand around them chanting "Thank you. We love you."

These two images have restored my faith. Really, they both made me cry.

[Raster]

16. I will not miss it. I'll have to do it at home...

...because I know I will be blubbering like a baby.

[Squinch]

17. For when you get home...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029479332

[Raster]

18. Thank you!

[underpants]

10. What a wonderful surprise last night

Getting ready to go to bed and this literally just happened. CNN reported it was all word of mouth. No social media so the Nazis didn't show up. It really warmed my heart.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029477468