Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by Will Bunch
“Many of the folks who began pouring into this city’s Union Park ahead of Monday’s major protest against U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza traveled great distances, like the bus convoy that left Minneapolis and drove all night straight to the park, or a man I met who’d come from California … by train. Some were protest veterans like the Code Pink posse, on the march since George W. Bush’s Iraq War, and some were even boomers who’d marched against the Vietnam War. But Nick Lopez, 23, who graduated from college a year ago and still hasn’t found a job, and who lives here in Chicago, decided to pop on down to the March on the DNC, on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, all by himself.” (08/22/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/dnc-chicago-2024-protest