Thread by @FordFischer

VIDEO: Activists organized by @SmashTheFashNVA held a protest this evening outside the Alexandria, VA Holiday Inn hotel demanding they not provide rooms for attendees of Wednesday's "Stop the Steal" rally in DC.

Activist tells me hotel has discount code for rally participants.

"They're hosting the Proud Boys, so they're renting rooms to fascists, and we don't like that" said @JonathanKrallVA.

"We think that these businesses should identify these groups and refuse to rent rooms to them because fascism should be taken seriously."

"The day that Biden won, we had hundreds of thousands of people at Black Lives Matter Plaza," said an activist who asked to be ID'ed as "Bug."

"We need those numbers again. We need those people to be out now, fighting against fascism."

The group had officially cancelled this event an hour ahead of the rally time due to "credible threats from fascists" they say they recieved.

In spite of that, several still showed up.

https://twitter.com/SmashTheFashNVA/status/1346170767902449665

The event was a physical manifestation (the only I'm aware of) of a broader campaign to get hotels to shut down on Jan 5 & 6 or simply not accommodate Trump supporters.

Two hotels have actually shut down for those dates, including Hotel Harrington.

https://twitter.com/DMVBlackLives/status/1344448103257174016

Here's my full video of the protest outside Alexandria, VA Holiday Inn today demanding they shut down for the 5th and 6th or refuse to accommodate Trump supporters in town for the protest.

As always, all footage available to license.