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New Orleans To Remove Four Major Confederate Monuments

December 18, 2015 Elahe Izadi, www.washingtonpost.com ,
By Elahe Izadi for The Washington Post - New Orleans officials voted Thursday to remove four prominent monuments to the Confederacy, following months of impassioned debate and similar actions by other communities in the South. The city council voted 6-1 to remove an obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place, as well as statues of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who introduced the proposal a week after a white gunman killed nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., called the move a “courageous decision to turn a page on our divisive past.”

Black Lives Matter Activists Confront ‘Southern Heritage’ Rally

September 7, 2015 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , , ,
By John Zangas in DC Media Group - Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement activists and supporters confronted a White Supremacy Southern Heritage group which rallied at Upper Senate Park next to the U.S. Capitol Saturday, September 5. The White Supremacist group displayed two dozen Confederate flags while BLM activists held signs reading “Smash Racism and Bigotry,” “White Supremacists Go Home” and “End The Confederacy.” U.S. Capitol Police officers formed a 200-foot barrier around the white supremacist group during the demonstration. In spite of police presence, angry clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters nevertheless erupted as latecomers tried to join the rally. BLM activists confronted them as police intervened. They urged Capitol Police to remove the Supremacists, but police said they held a valid protest permit.
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