Facebook ultimately removed the No Unite the Right 6003-DC event due to its known interaction and engagement with the Resisters page and maintains that Resisters was an illegitimate page from its inception.
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Draft resisters had inspired the second stage of the movement.
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Morally, they will feel compelled to stand up alongside the resisters.
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That is the irony created by anti-Trump resisters like Rep.
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Throughout the day, vaccine resisters used the hashtags to hurl challenges.
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Outside the United States, World War I resisters suffered even more.
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The Resisters page moved quickly, creating its counterprotest event organizing page.
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The trouble is that "The Resisters" is too easy to resist.
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Kasich, for instance, are two notable Trump resisters who have not thrown
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Facebook on Tuesday said "inauthentic" groups, including Resisters, created roughly 30 events.
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" The Facebook page at the center of the controversy was called "Resisters.
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He spoke about the US war resisters and the US peace movement.
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So, dance on freedom riders, social justice warriors, disruptors, resisters, persisters, activists & agitators.
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"What is it they have brought us?" one of her fellow resisters asked.
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Similarly, those who opposed slavery didn't view themselves as resisters; they were abolitionists.
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In fact, less than half of "resisters" think Democrats are effective in Congress.
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At the center of Jen's inventive novel is a Surplus family of resisters.
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So, dance on freedom riders, social justice warriors, disruptors, resisters, persisters, activists & agitators. #AOCDances.
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" In September 2017, the Resisters also held a protest called "We Stand with DREAMers!
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And the 22019 election will be won somewhere between Trump vindicators and Trump resisters.
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The grassroots resisters Since President Trump took office, opponents have been mobilizing at the grassroots.
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Some of the biggest resisters of a Trump presidency have been members of the ACLU.
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What changed us, what turned us from all-American boys into antiwar resisters and rebels?
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Witnesses testified that American soldiers murdered resisters and burned villages as they relocated Vietnamese civilians.
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The War Resisters League, where Mr. McReynolds had been a staff member, confirmed his death.
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Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the Union furthered the quest for Manifest Destiny by executing Indian resisters.
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Tens of thousands of Americans supported draft resisters by signing their names to complicity statements.
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Ultimately, he said, his mother sold their house, but they stay as renters, and resisters.
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Imagine another spectrum, with some voters – who might be labeled "resisters" – standing at one end.
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The resisters' primary mission is to oppose whatever the other party supports, almost without question.
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The previous Canadian administration's hostility towards Iraq war resisters hadn't made Canada much more welcoming either.
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Facebook told Motherboard that it investigated the admins of Resisters after becoming aware of the page.
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Resisters' Unite the Right event duped legitimate pages, which signed on to co-host the event.
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Ali Issa, a national organizer with the War Resisters League, wants the conference to be cancelled.
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Ethan Doyle White Other countries have started to recognize this and honor their war resisters accordingly.
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There are moments in "The Resisters" that remind you what an extremely fine writer Jen is.
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The most popular of the now-banned Pages include Aztlan Warriors, Black Elevation, Mindful Being, and Resisters.
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This event, which was created by the now-removed page "Resisters," was removed from Facebook on Tuesday.
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All three events were hosted by what appear to be legitimate groups in addition to the Resisters.
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In an interview with CNN, Pineda said she understood Smith to be associated with the "Resisters" group.
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A page called "Aztlan Warriors" was set up in March 2017, a day before the Resisters page.
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The event page was created on June 13 by a feminist-oriented Facebook political page called Resisters.
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"The Resisters" might be the only dystopian novel whose climax involves a tense, high-stakes baseball game.
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But "The Resisters" is not among her best novels; it never sinks its hooks into the reader.
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He views some of the Muslims who are fighting against America abroad as resisters of U.S. imperialism.
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As the company explained in its blog post: The "Resisters" Page also created a Facebook Event for a protest on August 10 to 12 and enlisted support from real people… Inauthentic admins of the "Resisters" Page connected with admins from five legitimate Pages to co-host the event.
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For example, the Resisters account previously had an IRA account as one of its administrators for seven minutes.
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Inauthentic admins of the "Resisters" Page connected with admins from five legitimate Pages to co-host the event.
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For others, such as resisters Robin Long and James Burmeister, public statements have come back to haunt them.
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Willoughby is a member of a group of liberal, activist women from Juneau who call themselves the ReSisters.
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William Sloane Coffin, Jr., a chaplain at Yale, declared the university's Battell Chapel a sanctuary for draft resisters.
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"Mary" was not the only apparently fake Facebook account that drew legitimate activists into the Resisters event page.
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Fifty years later, it is worth remembering the place of draft resisters in the American tradition of dissent.
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Specifically, an account called Resisters, which interacted with one Internet Research Agency account in 2017, created an Aug.
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The name of the organization, Aunt Nellie's All-Star Resistance League, or the Resisters, supplies the novel's title.
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One law changed the behavior of impassioned resisters more effectively than a thousand public service announcements might have.
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The page, titled "Resisters," had "an IRA account as one of its admins for only seven minutes," Facebook wrote.
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"We're not talking about draft dodgers, we're not talking about resisters," Kenney had told Canwest News at the time.
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After a court order was issued on Tuesday, bailiffs battered down barricades and pushed homeless resisters to the floor.
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In her correspondence with Hunter, Mary Smith also mentions a woman named Natasha as a part of the Resisters.
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More than 290,000 Facebook accounts followed these pages, with Resisters—the anti-Trump activist page—being the most popular.
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Like Resisters, the Blacktivist Facebook account had thousands of followers who believed they were engaging with real grassroots action.
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"If I had to do it again, I would've touched base with [all of the Resisters admins]," Orsinger said.
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There's Frank Showler, a Canadian and conscientious objector during World War Two who later helped Vietnam resisters fleeing to Canada.
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Indivisible St. Louis told The Hill that its Springfield event was already being organized when Resisters contacted them on Facebook.
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But the thirst for more resisters has meant welcoming anyone with even an incidentally critical thing to say about Trump.
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WITNESS TO THE REVOLUTIONRadicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its SoulBy Clara BinghamIllustrated.
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But Orsinger says it's not so simple—that Resisters seemed real because it parasitized the work of legitimate activist groups.
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"Inauthentic admins of the 'Resisters' Page connected with admins from five legitimate Pages to co-host the event," said Gleicher.
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A recent CBS survey showed that "resisters" to Trump and his agenda make up a solid third of the country.
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Gish Jen's densely imagined if static new novel, "The Resisters," is set in a future surveillance state known as AutoAmerica.
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Peruse Twitter today and you'll invariably come away believing the country is full of resisters and bereft of problem solvers.
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And ultimately, whoever did create "The Resisters" contributed nothing to the organizing of the real-world events focused on by Facebook.
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They had been war tax resisters for decades, and at this moment they were having their house repossessed by the IRS.
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So Mr. Orsinger connected several other Washington-based activist groups to help flesh out the event page the Resisters had started.
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Resisters want nothing to do with the uglier elements of the Tea Party — the rallies where politicians were burned in effigy.
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THE RESISTERSBy Gish Jen Gish Jen's timely fifth novel, "The Resisters," imagines a society even more catastrophically divided than our own.
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Read: Gish Jen's densely imagined if static new novel, "The Resisters," is set in a future surveillance state known as AutoAmerica.
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Many of the accused recruited friends or family to lie on their behalf and to reinvent them as resisters and dissidents.
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A recent poll showed that 63 percent of Canadians agree Iraq war resisters should be allowed to become permanent residents of Canada.
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The "Resisters" page, for example, which Facebook deemed inauthentic, relied on admins from five authentic pages to co-host the counter-protest.
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WITNESS TO THE REVOLUTION: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul, by Clara Bingham.
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We don't know which Resisters admin created the page, and Orsinger is fairly certain the event's name was different at the start.
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The "Resisters" also promoted a "No United The Right 2 — DC" event and got help from the administrators of five legitimate Pages.
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The resisters debate whether simply listening to the radio and getting mad counts as action, or if more active steps are needed.
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Like many of the initial Tea Partyers, many of the resisters on the left say they had never been involved in politics.
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By the Book The author of "The Resisters" and other books has put off reading the story collection "Exhalation," by Ted Chiang.
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His failures so far, I suppose, should bring resisters like me some modicum of joy, but I must confess that they don't.
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The campaign workers, a group made up of anti-war activists spanning different generations, have become like family to some of the resisters.
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Groups like Hunter's and Kappeler's, whose events already happened, stressed that the protests captured real energy, independent of anything the Resisters were doing.
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Mr. McReynolds spent almost four decades as a staff member for the War Resisters League, a pacifist organization based in New York City.
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In Boston, draft resisters assembled in the historic Arlington Street Church and turned in their cards in what seemed like a sacramental rite.
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Boston draft resisters, for example, were mostly middle to upper -middle class, the children of Democrats who presumably voted for Johnson in 1964.
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And so even when the stubborn lot of resisters remained, the machinations to dismiss them were built into these governments and their laws.
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We heard the stories of resisters being shackled in the courtyard for days beneath a brutal sun, sent to solitary confinement or killed.
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The accounts and pages, which had names including "Black Elevation" and "Resisters," created more than 9,500 organic posts on Facebook and one on Instagram.
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They encourage other armed resisters to join in, set up defensive positions, and pledge that "lives could be lost" if law enforcement removes them.
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There is some evidence that the events set up by Resisters were meant to piggy-back on existing, legitimate events by opponents of Trump.
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They were hippies and draft resisters, as enthusiastic about LSD as about microprocessors, and they brought to their work the tenets of the counterculture.
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My fellow resisters and I brought our spirit of resistance to the prison system, organizing around prisoner issues of health care, food and visits.
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While most of the German clergy swore allegiance to Hitler and preached "Mein Kampf" instead of the Bible, Bonhoeffer joined a group of resisters.
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As Facebook tells it, "inauthentic admins" of a Facebook Page called "The Resisters" coordinated with five other "legitimate Pages" to create the now-deleted event.
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America did not want to think about the internment, and the Japanese-American community, intent on being patriotic, did not want to acknowledge draft resisters.
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But in small towns and villages far from journalists—who are paid not to be interested in what real people think—the resisters are gathering.
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While most of the pages were seemingly legitimate activist groups, among them was a page called "Resisters," one of the pages Facebook removed on Tuesday.
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"The event was created by Resisters, but was used for legitimate protest organizing and promotion," ShutItDownDC—one of the other activist groups—said via Twitter.
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After years of signing petitions, writing to their congressmen and turning out for large-scale demonstrations, to no avail, draft resisters now upped the ante.
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The American left created a different language of resistance, much of it focused around the anti-conscription activities of groups like the War Resisters League.
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"The Resisters" is full of characters who voluntarily hand over their humanity — by agreeing to GenetImprovement or by mindlessly following the orders of Aunt Nettie.
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I worried that modern shortsightedness would prevent resisters from seeing the long game, that the exhaustion of constant outrage would numb them to unrelenting assault.
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The Alabama election has demonstrated once again that resisters aren't just angry; they are motivated and insistent that the past will not defeat the future.
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Often, as with Mr Baldenegro and Ms Cáceres, the resisters are from indigenous groups; a third of the environmentalists murdered in 2015 belonged to such groups.
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The War Resisters bought the building in 235, and the Muste Institute, which focuses on peace efforts and social justice projects, bought it four years later.
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By the time of his last presidential bid, he was 70 and technically retired from his position as a field secretary with the War Resisters League.
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Naturally, this proposal has resisters, notably politicians representing Brooklyn, Queens and the eastern suburbs, whose constituents take to cars more than Manhattan or Bronx residents do.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "For Trump Resisters, Quest to Sustain Momentum After Victory" (front page, April 10): Let me count the ways that resistance continues.
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And it was Trudeau's father, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who granted safe haven for thousands of Vietnam draft dodgers and resisters in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Orsinger, who is helping to organize a Unite the Right counter-protest, had added the "Resisters" page as a host of the event to help promote it.
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Okada came back from the war and published "No No Boy" in 1957, the first novel dealing with the little-known story of Japanese-American draft resisters.
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On a recent afternoon, volunteers in the War Resisters office packed dozens of boxes with paper to be recycled, including a brochure encouraging divestment in weapons manufacturers.
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For example, the Resisters page created a Facebook event scheduled for August to protest a planned second act to the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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More than 20103,22010 accounts followed at least one of the suspect pages, which had names like Aztlan Warriors, Black Elevation, Mindful Being and Resisters, the company said.
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The only woman to lead a Resistance network in occupied France, she was never honored in France's Pantheon, although two Frenchwomen resisters were belatedly honored in 2015.
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" He also finds a line from the "citizens" that could act as a balm for those #resisters who still believe in democracy's power: "The people are the city.
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That ill-conceived move was applauded by John Bolton, Mr. Trump's national security adviser and one of the arms control resisters who are now ascendant in the administration.
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Being in government did not tame him: as the Assistant Secretary of Labor, he had boldly written to President Wilson suggesting a blanket pardon for jailed draft resisters.
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It's easy to see how the intelligence community inspector general steered it to the Congressional Intelligence Committees, under the cover of great credibility, through a gauntlet of resisters.
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The group said the Resisters page was alarming because it was pushing for confrontation at multiple protests, including against "Unite the Right 2," with a potential for violence.
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The first wave of resisters included those closely linked to local factories, wage workers and unions, all of whom were in solidarity against government plans to develop the area.
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In the documentary, narrator Martin Sheen rattles off the statistic that there are 10,000-some-odd war tax resisters in the country, and claims that the number is growing.
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Among young radical men, free sex and drugs fueled fatal posturings of machismo and an atmosphere in which women were expected to reward courageous draft resisters with their bodies.
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The Resistance recognized that what was as stake was not just political power but also human dignity, which, all question of tactical efficacy aside, the resisters saw as nonnegotiable.
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Mr. Orsinger said he was invited into the Resisters page on Facebook in January and interacted with "Mary" for months on the social network, without thinking anything was amiss.
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But if a citizen defied the draft laws to take a similar stand, few saw it as the resisters did: as a desperate appeal to the nation's highest ideals.
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Johnson, furious upon hearing reports that protesters had left nearly 1,000 draft cards at the Justice Department, wanted all draft resisters prosecuted or called for induction into the Army.
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The resisters suffered a legal setback last week when Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the Federal District Court in Washington refused to issue an injunction against the data collection.
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Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi, because I'm awed by leaders who embrace their resisters and create change over very long periods of time using patience and calm, peaceful protest.
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" It said, for example, the posts on the year-old, feminist Resisters page "took a liberal or left-wing stance on issues around gender, race, immigration, and human rights.
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Not only have the resisters already markedly altered the trajectory of public policy, they have begun to make a difference in each other's lives and their own conceptions of themselves.
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In 2009, then Immigration Minister Jason Kenney bristled at the way the Iraq resisters were being characterized, and labeled them "bogus refugee claimants" who were "clogging up" the immigration system.
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When the public can not agree upon a shared reality—when confusion and distrust and propaganda reign—politics devolves into a pre-democratic struggle for power, which will disfavor resisters.
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It has provided low-priced offices to dozens of groups, including the Granny Peace Brigade and the Socialist Party USA, since 21, when the War Resisters League began leasing it.
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The War Resisters League bought the property for $60,000, and the institute, which is named after Abraham Johannes Muste, a pacifist who opposed the Vietnam War and advised the Rev.
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There is no reason (other than white supremacy and its reverberations) to foreground the work of the white accomplices in B.H.A.A.A.D. over the work of POC resisters in the coalition.
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And although draft resisters expected to be arrested and prosecuted, Attorney General Ramsey Clark surprised them by indicting only a handful of ringleaders, including the famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock.
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" And they are implicit as well in a couple of the novels here, which focus on matters of class or race: Alexis Schaitkin's "Saint X" and Gish Jen's "The Resisters.
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With the change in administration, however, these industry resisters have found renewed cause for optimism that their strategy of winning a best interest standard in name only can finally succeed.
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Organizer Dylan Petrohilos told DCist that nobody disputes that the Resisters account was one of the co-hosts, but said another legitimate group called Workers Against Racism was the event's creator.
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The two war tax resisters are deliberate orators; though the emotion of the moment is palpable, they are simply trying to understand how someone in good conscience could take another's house.
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The "Shut It Down D.C." coalition, which has yet to hold its event, also said the Resisters played a negligible role and expressed frustration at Facebook deleting the entire event online.
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Not only have the resisters already markedly altered the trajectory of public policy, they have also begun to make a difference in each other's lives and their own conceptions of themselves.
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He said groups would protest the "Unite the Right II" rally in their own city regardless of whether the Resisters page had moved first to create an event page for it.
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"The Resisters" is aimed at many catastrophes at once: surveillance technology, government overreach, authoritarianism, automation, economic inequality, racism, sexual assault and the institutional mishandling of it, geopolitical conflict and climate change.
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He's one of 24 remaining American war resisters fighting for the right to stay, after years of being labeled criminals by the Canadian government, which automatically deemed them inadmissible to the country.
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Members of Windward ReSisters, a women's group in Hawaii, decided to gather outside the estate where the Obama family was staying for Christmas and sing carols to welcome him, People magazine reported.
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Members of the War Resisters League, Global Revolution TV and other groups that rent offices there gathered in a top-floor office to discuss boxing their possessions and soon leaving for good.
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His yearning was not foreseeable at his birth: his father was a hippie and his mother was an ex-nun, and they had met while counselling draft resisters during the Vietnam War.
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The Resisters group tried to instigate a potentially violent confrontation at the "Unite the Right" rally of white supremacists slated for this weekend in Washington by creating a counterprotest event on Facebook.
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We ought to also set aside time to remember those throughout American history who have tried hardest to reduce them, to prevent unnecessary loss of life both American and foreign: war resisters.
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Mr. Orsinger said that he was not sure whether an account associated with the Resisters page had originated in Russia or not, but that it had done no harm to local organizers.
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With her husband, Fritz Stern, who was a leading historian of Germany, she also wrote "No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State" (2013).
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In New York, as staff counsel for the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, he represented conscientious objectors, draft resisters and deserters, clogging the legal system by entering not guilty pleas and demanding trials.
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In that way, they're not unlike the draft resisters from the Vietnam War, or the black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, who inspired sit-ins nationwide to desegregate public spaces in the 1960s.
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As with many of the resisters, it was the way the US army treated Iraqi civilians that made McDowell question the mission, which he supported when he went to Iraq, and eventually run.
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In this, Gunther is unique among the überheroes who usually command our empathy in thrillers set during the Hitler years—the martyred resisters drawn from Stauffenberg, say, or the noble commoners like Schindler.
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Think of all those Women's Marchers and fired-up resisters who've been organizing campaigns, knocking on doors and winning primaries and elections all over the country, to the great surprise of mainstream pundits.
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For decades, many French have held on to the idea that their ancestors had been either victims or resisters of Nazis, or of the collaborationist regime that was set up in Vichy, France.
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In the late 1960s, he left a Wall Street law firm where he was an associate and moved to Japan and Germany with his wife, Ellen Ray, to counsel resisters to the war in Vietnam.
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That feeling was palpable at a recent meeting in Toronto of the War Resisters' Support Campaign, which has been helping the majority of conscientious objectors to the Iraq war who slipped across the border into Canada.
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On Tuesday, the company suspended the account of "Mary," apparently deeming it a fake, and said the Resisters page was a tool in a coordinated political influence operation to sow division ahead of the midterm elections.
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But because the Resisters' event page was up, he said, it made sense to reach out via Mr. Orsinger and essentially take it over, rather than create a redundant page and risk fracturing the potential audience.
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The multiple traditions approach, on the other hand, reminds us that at each juncture there have been resisters and stand-patters and incrementalists, and that their perspectives are often built into the foundations of new institutions.
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Stewart Brand, who would later go on to publish The Whole Earth Catalog, was asked by the War Resisters League at San Francisco State University to create a protest event in light of the ongoing Vietnam War.
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A manifesto like James Dobson's "Marriage Under Fire," published in 2004 and presaging later pleas for "religious liberty" — that is, church-sanctioned bigotry — echoes the hellfire screeds delivered by massive resisters, including clerics, after the Brown v.
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"The Resisters" is a book that grows directly out of the soil of our current political moment, and much of the book's unsettling pleasure lies in Jen's ingenious extrapolation (or, in some cases, redescription) of contemporary problems.
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The Fellowship of Reconciliation, founded around the same time, funded the first freedom rides in the 27s, and its partner organization the War Resisters League provided strategic support to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 2000s and 21980s.
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Mr. Orsinger gently suggested to "Mary" that the Resisters "get buy-in from local DC organizers of color first," like the local Black Lives Matter chapter, for the counterprotest, according to messages reviewed by The New York Times.
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On July 1, another Resisters administrator, "Natasha Shipley," reached out to Workers Against Racism, a national group, to request help for the same event — quickly making it a co-host, too, according to messages reviewed by The Times.
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While prosecutors focused on the persuasive power of the defendants — in effectively urging and persuading draft resisters to break the law — the defense responded that they were only stating their opinions, exercising their First Amendment right of free speech.
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A man who identified himself as an administrator of Resisters, Washington activist Brendan Orsinger, said on a video call with Reuters that he had been invited to help operate the page by someone he knew only through Facebook messages.
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According to a post from Facebook's chief security officer, Alex Stamos: In a statement, Shut It Down DC said the Facebook event was created by Resisters, a page that ostensibly existed to share feminist memes, and garnered roughly 21,000 followers.
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On June 25, Mr. Orsinger reached out via Facebook to a Resisters administrator he knew as "Mary," whom he had messaged before, to discuss how Washington-based activists resent it when national activists crowd out local organizers on an event.
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I've made the case for the second narrative before, arguing that Trump isn't really in charge of his own presidency, and that the Republican Congress — or at least the Republican Senate — has constrained his behavior more than many Resisters acknowledge.
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When the National Park Service retweeted a picture comparing the crowds of the two presidents, showing unoccupied swaths at Trump's, the Trump administration punished the trolling resisters at the park service by shutting down their Twitter account for the night.
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A Facebook Page called "Resisters" created the event, set to take place on August 10, as a protest against Unite the Right 2 — a follow-up event to last year's deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va. that left peaceful counter-protester Heather Heyer dead.
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Facebook provided an image of the deleted "No Unite The Right 2 – DC" event as part of its announcement today that merely showed its image, title, date, location and that a Page called "Resisters" was one of the hosts of the propaganda event.
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One of Willoughby's fellow ReSisters, Julie Nielsen, a fisheries biologist with a side passion for health care reform, was so happy that she put a bright pink sign in the window of her office overlooking one of the main shopping streets in Juneau.
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Then, too, in the middle decades of the century, Republicans like Everett Dirksen, Jacob Javits and Margaret Chase Smith were dependable allies in the cause of civil rights while many Democrats, including some of the most powerful men in Congress, were massive resisters.
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The Communist Party of France was a slavishly obedient arm of Stalinism and the Soviet Union—which did not alter the other reality that, after the invasion of Russia, in 1941, many of the most courageous of the resisters would be Communists.
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As Democratic 2020 hopefuls consider ways to distinguish themselves in what will be a crowded field of anti-Trump Resisters, it seems likely that signing onto Booker's bill or a similar policy will be an easy way to attract the progressive base.
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Facebook has said little about the specific accounts that it deemed fake, other than that there was more than one inauthentic administrator with the Resisters page, which connected with administrators of five legitimate pages to act as a co-host for the event.
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For the men who became draft resisters and for their supporters, the realization that they were compelled to play an undemocratic game that privileged some Americans over others only reinforced their sense that the United States had strayed from its most cherished values.
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It also brutalized religious resisters, stacked non-European bodies like cordwood … and eventually revived the worst tendencies of the old Christendom, anti-Semitism and millenarianism, in fascist and Communist experiments that added the genocide of millions to the modern state's list of crimes.
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The Resisters see the Stone indictment as a sure sign that Mueller is getting ready to release his much-anticipated report, which will prove, at last, that Trump colluded with the Russians and then, at last, it will be IMPEACHMENT TIME, BABY.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has until September 20093 to decide whether the government will continue his predecessor Stephen Harper's legacy of opposing the resisters in four specific cases this fall — a decision that will be an important signal for others enmeshed in similar fights.
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"It became clear that these guys were not only being punished for having refused to go back to Iraq, but they were punished for what they were publicly saying about what was happening," said lawyer Alyssa Manning, who represents 2023 war resisters in Canada.
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The moral quandaries of the Nazi period preoccupied him to the end of his life, and found expression in the 2013 work "No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi: Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State," which he wrote with Ms. Sifton.
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" Our lesson plan about Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" suggests ways to compare tellings of events in American history, since Zinn's work "shined an insistent light on the revolutionary struggles of impoverished farmers, feminists, laborers and resisters of slavery and war.
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Unless you are already familiar with, say, Ralph DiGia, who became an important figure in the pacifist group the War Resisters League later in life, it's a bit irksome to have him quickly introduced as a young Bronx man pondering the draft, then shelved.
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Despite his early opposition to the Vietnam War, his campaign to register draft resisters as conscientious objectors and his protests against American banks as "partners in apartheid," because of their ties to the South African government, Mr. Booth was considered a moderate by S.D.S. standards.
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The only country in World War II to defy Hitler's order to deport its Jews, Denmark shielded the vast majority of its Jewish population thanks to a network of Danish resisters who used small boats to spirit some 8,000 Jews to politically neutral Sweden.
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Although other Facebook pages are promoting the counterprotest, the social network said that the Resisters page was the first, and that it had coordinated with administrators for five other apparently real pages to co-host its page — publicizing details about transportation and other logistics.
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The resisters included Galileo Figaro and Scaramouche; other outcasts, called the Bohemians, worshiped the hazy memory of something called rock music via salvaged totemic artifacts like a "vy-day-oh tappee" — they didn't know how to pronounce it and, dear reader, that made me laugh.
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When Windward ReSisters, a women's movement based in Obama's native Hawaii, heard he was returning to the islands with his family for the holidays, they decided to welcome the former president by singing Christmas carols outside the Paul Mitchell estate in lanikai, where the Obamas were staying.
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It involves dozens of local groups, including the D.C. Antifascist Collective, Black Lives Matter D.C., Hoods4Justice, and Smash Racism D.C.According to a Facebook news release, the original creator of the "No Unite the Right 2 — DC" page was created in part with an inauthentic "Resisters" account.
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The Liberals have indicated their support for war resisters in the past, passing a non-binding motion in 2008 to let them stay, and backing legislation that would've allowed foreigners who left their country's army or refused mandatory military service to avoid participating in an illegal war.
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While advocating assassination is the exception among the "resisters," let's allow that failure to acknowledge many of the president's charges about the undeniable efforts of so many to obstruct his administration or cast it in the worst light possible is less obtuseness and more coolly calculated partisanship.
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This constant state of chaos and anxiety has been exhausting and nearly unbearable, but it is all coming to a head in November when the defiant, the resisters, the never-Trumpers, will get to have their voices heard in a way that reaches beyond protests and rallies.
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With phrases like "Stop Settler Terror," and "Water Is Our First Medicine," written in stark white and in some cases on blood-red ground, the prints read like a wall of placards carried by an invisible army of resisters at the 2016 Dakota Access pipeline protests.
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If one is to believe the historians, Lincoln's decision to impose 39 death penalties for the Sioux Uprising was one of delicate political balance: He had to kill enough Native resisters so as to stifle any future uprisings but not so many that he provoked another.
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In the same way that a soldier charging enemy lines knows that his mad rush to death may expose his enemy's vulnerabilities, contributing to his own survival and the victory of his unit, resisters know that the refusal of fear is a necessary condition of their own success.
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This German-British production, washing up on Hulu on Monday, is a surf and turf proposition: Half the action takes place aboard another cramped U-boat, while half takes place ashore, among the Nazi occupiers and French collaborators and resisters of La Rochelle, France, where the boats are based.
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The crowd at the Sakhumzi outdoor bar on Vilakazi Street in Soweto, made famous by being the home of two of the most celebrated resisters of apartheid – late former President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu — reflected the harmonious multiracial society that South Africa still aspires to become.
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But Romney couldn't talk Kasich into being that independent candidate, all the other possibilities demurred — and then as a group, the Republican resisters declined to endorse anyone, neither Hillary Clinton nor the Libertarian ticket nor Evan McMullin, making their opposition a private matter rather than a public challenge to the nominee.
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By 21968, Spock's outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War and his support of draft resisters had drawn praise from his letter-writing public; many parents seemed to appreciate his risking his reputation to protest against the war, for sticking his neck out on behalf of their now draft-age children.
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A representative from Workers Against Racism, one of the groups in the "Shut It Down DC Coalition" organizing the "No Unite The Right 2" event, told The Hill that they were approached by a separate woman claiming to be with the Resisters, Natasha Shipley, about the event, but only via Facebook Messenger.
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On August 26, 1944, after the Allies liberated Paris, he claimed the victory as his own, organizing a personal parade down the Champs-Élysées, in which he walked alone—his fellow-resisters were asked to hang back a few feet—amid a hysterical throng that may be the largest ever assembled in Paris.
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Andrew Batcher, 37, a Washington-based activist who is an administrator for the Facebook page of the group Smash Racism — one of those that the Resisters later invited to act as a co-host of their event page — said many local activists had traveled to Charlottesville last year to protest the original rally.
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But the idea that, in addition to liberals, progressives, resisters, and, oh, I don't know, anyone with an inkling of patriotism, this desire to protect the country may well exist among some rock-ribbed Republicans and may in fact extend all the way to the corridors of the White House offers some solace.
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For several months, a coalition of anti-fascist groups, known as Shut It Down DC, had been organizing a nonviolent display against "Unite the Right 22 - DC." A Facebook event was created for the protest by a page called "Resisters," which is not part of the coalition, and where Orsinger served as an admin.
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The excitement continues in … ... when Washington whips itself into a frenzy the likes of which it experiences only once every two or three weeks as a consensus begins to develop among the courageous Resisters of the Resistance that it really is DEFINITELY ALMOST NEARLY IMPEACHMENT TIME AND WE ARE REALLY NOT FOOLING AROUND ANYMORE.
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According to Facebook, activity around one of the pages, called "Resisters," revealed a coordinated effort by "inauthentic users" to organize an August protest against the Unite the Right rally in D.C. The event has since been disabled, and Facebook said all 2,600 users who indicated they were "interested" in the event will be notified of what happened.
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Facebook initially provided no comment about the description of the event, but then confirmed that it was originally created by the attackers' since-deleted Page "Resisters," which then later added several legitimate organizations as co-hosts: Millennials For Revolution, March To Confront White Supremacy – from Charlottesville to DC, Workers Against Racism – WAR, Smash Racism DC and Tune Out Trump.
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"When the NYPD associates itself with Islamophobic extremists like Mauro, as a Muslim in NYC, I feel my community is under attack," said Uruj Sheikh, an activists with the War Resisters League, which is protesting the conference along with Black Lives Matter Upstate New York, the Arab American Association of New York, and a coalition of other activist groups.
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One of the biggest groups to emerge from the new wave of "resisters" is Indivisible, which was founded by a few liberal former congressional staffers and says it wants to borrow tactics from the Tea Party, as it did when it inspired the raucous protests at town hall meetings that helped turn the tide against Obamacare repeal.
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They were inspired by the civil rights movement, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement (during which one of its leaders, Mario Savio, described having to "put your bodies upon the gears, and upon the wheels, and upon the levers" in order to stop the operation of an odious "machine") and the precedent of resisters such as Muhammad Ali.
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According to Facebook, activity around one of the pages, called "Resisters," revealed a coordinated effort by "inauthentic users" to organize an August protest against the Unite the Right rally in D.C. The event has since been disabled, and Facebook said all 500,600 users who indicated they were "interested" in the event will be notified of what happened.
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BEN SUSSWEIN MONTCLAIR, N.J. ⬥ What's Going Down To the Editor: In his otherwise fine review of Clara Bingham's "Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul" (June 12), Jon Wiener considers "the only real flaw in the book" to be her use of the word "revolution" in the title.
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To support those charges, the indictment listed several acts committed by the defendants that furthered the alleged conspiracy: the participation of the four older men in signing and circulating the Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority, a public petition urging Americans to support draft resisters and others who would break the law to stop the Vietnam War; the participation of Coffin and Ferber in an Oct.
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A comparison might be made between Gary and his good friend and admirer Albert Camus: both were outsiders, the Eastern European Jew and the Algerian; both were resisters (though Camus's war was nowhere near as heroic as Gary's); and both spoke up for the particular and against the abstract, following the hope, embedded in the French vocabulary, that the word humain could stand for both the human and the humane.
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Hi Brendan, We haven't been able to connect on the phone, but I did want to make sure you know that earlier today we removed a Facebook event that you are listed as a co-host of, "No Unite the Right 2 - DC", because one of the Pages that created the event, "Resisters", has been removed from Facebook because [it] was created by someone establishing an inauthentic account that has been associated with coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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Facebook says that it reached out to the legitimate organizers of No Unite The Right 2-DC with the following message: We haven't been able to connect on the phone yet, but I did want to make sure you know that earlier today we removed a Facebook event that you are listed as a co-host of, "No Unite the Right 2 – DC", because one the Pages that created the event, "Resisters", has been removed from Facebook because [it] was created by someone establishing an inauthentic account that has been associated with coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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