Thread by @FordFischer

VIDEO THREAD: Today a controversial coalition of activists included libertarians, conservatives, socialists, communists, and anarchists held a #EndTheDamnWars march in Washington DC.

All footage in thread by me for @N2Sreports and available to license.

"Free Edward Snowden! Free Julian Assange!" the @EndTheDamnWars activists chanted as they marched on Penn Ave today, the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

"Jail war criminals!"

"Fuck Biden! Fuck Trump! Fuck Obama! Fuck Bush!"

"Happy wedding day!" the activists chanted as they passed a couple doing a wedding photoshoot on Freedom Plaza.

"Happy wedding day!"

"Fuck the CIA!"

Several speakers spoke at John Marshall park, where the @EndTheDamnWars rally took place before marching.

@medeabenjamin of @codepink spoke first advocating to "End the damn wars and stop pouring our money down the blackhole of militarism!"

Next spoke @PanvidyaMagnus, an organizer of the event and a "boogaloo."

"Alone, we are isolated, we are marginalized. But together, hand-in-hand, we can send a message that cannot be silenced, cannot be jailed, cannot be divided, and cannot be ignored."

Radio host @GarlandNixon spoke out against the use of sanctions as a form of warfare.

"We gotta stop the sanctions," he said before leading the rally in chants of "Free Julian Assange" and "End the damn wars!"

"He has done more for the people in Afghanistan than any bomb, or any bullet, or any tank," said @AndrewZigmund of @action_4assange, who also organized @EndTheDamnWars.

"Free, free, Julian Assange!" he led the crowd in chants.

"Twenty years in now: More than a million dead, ten trillion [dollars] blown," said @scotthortonshow, detailing history since 9/11.

"It's not giving in to terrorists to abolish empire that we never should have had in the first place."

"We have to quit being divided," said @paulajean2020, who ran to primary Joe Manchin (D) in 2018.

"I left the Democratic Party because of the corruption. I joined the @PeoplesParty_US because we need to hold these people accountable."

"You have libertarians, you have leftists, socialists, communists, whatever. They have less in common but they get that something really wrong is happening," said @MaxBlumenthal at #EndTheDamnWars.

"What we need to do is unite against the common foe."

Jordan from @DCMetro4Assange delivered a spoken-word rendition of a song she wrote for @EndTheDamnWars.

"No more fighting. No more crying. No more dying. Let's start trying. Let's end damn wars."

"End the damn wars."

Organizer @MeanPanduh described that part of her motivation to assemble the @EndTheDamnWars rally was to bridge the gap between activism for whistleblowers and anti-war activism.

I asked @PanvidyaMagnus to address controversy surrounding the #EndTheDamnWars event, particularly himself as a "boogaloo."

Is it contradictory to be in a movement surrounding the concept of (armed) revolution/civil war while also holding an anti-war event?

His answer:

I also asked @AndrewZigmund about the concept of political coalition.

He described himself as an "Assangist" and quoted Julian Assange: "All political ideologies are bankrupt to a greater or lesser extent."

He says issue of ending wars transcends the political differences.

Here is my full @N2Sreports of today's @EndTheDamnWars rally in DC.

Most of the speeches are also linked as separate videos in thread.

As always, all footage available to license.

PHOTOS: Today's @EndTheDamnWars rally and march made its way from John Marshall Park to the White House, condemning the last four presidential administrations (including the current one) and demanding the release of @wikileaks Julian Assange.

Participants in the @EndTheDamnWars rally ranged from Communist Party to the progressive @PeoplesParty_US to Libertarian to "Boogaloo."