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As Alt-Right Gathers in Boston, Thousands Counter With Rally to 'Fight Supremacy'

Thousands of protesters prepare to march in Boston against a planned 'Free Speech Rally' just one week after the violent 'Unite the Right' rally in Virginia left one woman dead and dozens more injured on August 19, 2017 in Boston, United States.

Citing 'Hateful Rhetoric' of Trump, Arts & Humanities Council Resigns En Masse

Julia Conley, staff writer

In their letter of resignation, the members of the president's arts committee spelled out the word "RESIST" with the first letters of each paragraph.

In a strong rebuke of President Donald Trump equating white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend with counter-protesters who demonstrated against bigotry, all members of the president's Committee on the Arts and Humanities announced their resignations Friday—and urged Trump to do the same. "The false equivalencies...

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Despite Harsh Rebuke for Charlottesville Stance, Trump's Base Remains Loyal

Julia Conley, staff writer

In protests around the world, the anti-Trump resistance has asserted this week that the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville last week were to blame for the violence that ensued.

While many in the news media, in Washington, across social media, and in the...

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The Magazine Covers Trump Earned This Week By Defending White Supremacy

Common Dreams staff

Remember when President Donald Trump was famously called out earlier this...

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White supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.

ACLU Shifts Position on Defending Armed Demonstrations After Charlottesville

At her daughter's funeral on Wednesday, Susan Bro said that while white supremacists "tried to kill my child to shut her up, [they] just magnified her."

Heather Heyer's Mom Won't Talk to Trump 'After What He Said About My Child'

Heather Heyer memorial

After Charlottesville, Republicans Defend Bills to Protect Drivers Who Hit Protesters

In an act of civil disobedience and solidarity, more than 200 citizens offered to turn themselves in for toppling a Confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina.

In Support of Eight Arrested for Toppling Durham Statue, Hundreds Turn Themselves In

A general view of ambulances at the scene of a terrorist attack in the Las Ramblas area on August 17, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Officials say 13 people are confirmed dead and at least 50 injured after a van plowed into people in the Las Ramblas area of the city this afternoon.

After Spain Attack, Trump Invokes 'Vile' Myth Celebrating Execution of Muslims

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Trump on the Brink? Impeachment Support Grows Amid Speculation He'll Resign

Citizens of southern cities including New Orleans have fought in recent months to have Confederate statues removed.

As Removal Movement Grows, Trump Sides With White Supremacists on Confederate Monuments

Wednesday night, marchers—singing "We are not afraid" and "We shall overcome"—offered a peaceful and hopeful alternative to the violence and hatred that was on display at the so-called "Unite the Right" rally.

'Hope Not Hatred': Thousands Gather Across US in Rebuke to Trump, Neo-Nazis

Deandre Harris

Four Arrested for Toppling Confederate Statue. No White Supremacists Arrested for Brutal Beating of Deandre Harris.

Trump was forced to disband two business councils Wednesday after seven members left over his comments about Charlottesville.

Stranding CEOs Too Slow To Quit, Trump Disbands His Own Business Councils

Flowers, candles and chalk-written messages surround a photograph of Heather Heyer on the spot where she was killed and 19 others injured when a car slammed into a crowd of people protesting against a white supremacist rally, August 16, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Murder of Heather Heyer Only "Magnified Her," Mom Tells White Supremacists

Demonstrators in South Korea held a cartoonish illustration of President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

'Embarrassing' for US, Trump Defense of Neo-Nazi Rally Stuns People Worldwide

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NAACP

NAACP Statement on Steve Bannon’s Removal from White House

Global Justice Now

Theresa May Must Rescind Invite To Neo-Nazi Sympathiser Trump -

UltraViolet

Activists Drop “WOMEN RESIST WHITE SUPREMACY” Banner Inside Trump Tower Lobby

SumofUs

As CEOs Abandon Trump’s Manufacturing Council Over Lackluster Repudiation of White Supremacists, Over 26,000 Demand Ford, GM, IBM, JPMorgan Chase and Other CEOs Follow Their Lead

Jewish Voice for Peace

Getting Organized in the Wake of Charlottesville

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds To President Trump’s Latest Statement Following Charlottesville Attack

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No Two Sides About It, Confederate Statues Must Come Down

Sonali Kolhatkar

Is There a Nazi in the White House?

Steven Singer

Surprised by Charlottesville? You Haven’t Been Paying Attention

Keri Leigh Merritt

Charlottesville and the Confederate Legacy

Isaiah Poole

As Trump Hits a New Low, Here’s How We Go High

Les Leopold

Playing A Symphony On That White Skin

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The Alt-Right and the 1%

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Charlottesville, Oppression, and the Imperative of System Change

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The Road Back from the Brink

Robert Jensen

When Will the United States Transcend White Supremacy?

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