EXCLUSIVE: Far-right Trump supporters hope to use RFK Jr.-backed protests to stage a comeback

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


Jordan Green
March 17, 2021

Promoted on Facebook and Telegram, the "Worldwide Demonstration for Freedom" scheduled for Saturday promises that people around the world will rise up in unity against a nebulous enemy, using lofty phrases like "peace," "human rights," "democracy," "sovereignty" and "solidarity."

The soft framing and new age-y presentation belies a hard-edged message of protest against COVID restrictions that will be clearly understood by anti-lockdown stalwarts but vague enough to appeal to a wider audience. Launched by an obscure outfit in central Germany called Freie Bürger Kassel (translated as Free Citizens of Kassel), the Worldwide Demonstration has received a promotional boost from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccination campaigner and nephew of the 35th US president, who has been building transatlantic links with the German anti-lockdown movement over the past six months.

The group pledged in a Feb. 23 Facebook post to "form the biggest demonstration of the current time" with simultaneous actions in dozens of countries scheduled for Saturday, but social media engagement suggests it will fall short of the goal: Stockholm, one of the larger European capitals with an event page, shows only 30 people "interested." The US footprint is even more modest: Among 25-some events, the Alabama rally is taking place not in Birmingham, the largest city in the state, but at a distillery in Madison, a small city outside of Huntsville. The address for the Dallas event is actually an undeveloped parcel in suburban Arlington.

The art for the rallies features an identical font with iconic images from each of the locations processed through a golden filter and tagged with the hashtag #WewillALLbethere. The Facebook page for the project is churning out announcements for dozens of new locations a day, with a parallel effort on Telegram where some of the posts were reshared upwards of 15,000 times on Tuesday.



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[no_hypocrisy]

1. They should just cut to the proverbial chase and demand that they want everyone

to live under a fascist dictatorship indefinitely.

[marble falls]

2. Sounds like a rolling disaster in the US at least. It'll be choice when the GOPers start yelling ...

... "Lock her up!" during a protest demanding "peace," "human rights," "democracy," "sovereignty" and "solidarity."

[TomWilm]

3. In Denmark there were actually bussloads of people on their way ...

... until the event was abruptly cancelled. Corona could not stop it, but some (not very) bad weather did the job. The big revolution was postponed because of rain.