Dozens protest U.S. Venezuela intervention at Hart Plaza in Detroit

(Detroit Free Press) Frigid temperatures didn't stop dozens of metro Detroiters from going out to Hart Plaza on Saturday, Jan. 3, to show opposition to the U.S. striking Venezuela and seizing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

The afternoon protest by the Anti-Fascist Organizing Coalition, Moratorium NOW Coalition and a number of local organizations came after news that the U.S. captured the Venezuelan president for, according to President Donald Trump, narco-terrorism.

Protesters called for the release of Maduro and Flores, and for their congressional representatives to oppose further military action, among other things.



Abayomi Azikiwe, an organizer with the Anti-Fascist Organizing Committee and Moratorium NOW Coalition, said he came to the protest to oppose the bombing in Venezuela and the taking of Maduro, especially at a time when thousands in Detroit and millions in the U.S. rely on food banks to eat and face increasing health insurance costs with the expiration of the Affordable Care Act subsidies. .......................(more)

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