Howdy howdy, I’m here at Union Park reporting on the final @MarchOnDNC2024 for @TheRealNews

After 90 minutes of rousing speeches, demonstrators are ready to march. The same route is planned, same outsized police presence as every demo this week I’ve spent the last 90 minutes chatting with folks from various corners of the coalition about the demos this week, and what it means for them to join this movement while the DNC was in Chicago. Many good things said—check out @TheRealNews for my reports coming tomorrow

Hey hi, here at the corner of Paulina and Madison outside the DNC for @TheRealNews. Protesters are outside the security perimeter reading the names and ages of children killed in Gaza as DNC attendees pass. People pass by looking uncomfortable, annoyed, angry, some don’t look at the protesters at all. Some laugh, some talk shit as they pass

I’m in downtown Chicago reporting on the upcoming demonstration outside the Israeli consulate, and an hour and fifteen out from the proposed start time, there is a huge police and press presence already Folks are aloud to leave the police cordon but are unable to enter on this side

Good crowd gathering for the start of today’s @MarchOnDNC2024

https://twitter.com/mel_buer/status/1825521383616462939

Many cops in the park

I’m here at the corner of Michigan and Walker here in Chicago, reporting on the @bodiesmarch for @TheRealNews

We’ve got 30 minutes to go before the expected start of the March, a good crowd is assembling on each corner of the intersection. Bike cops galore Wacker*** already fucking this thread up

Earlier this week, a group of animation workers converged on the former Cartoon Network studio building in Burbank to project a message as they get into the thick of negotiations. Some statements from concerned animation workers in next tweets: —“The Cartoon Network building was home to so much love and light for everyone making cartoons there. It’s a shell of its former self now, and the future of animation looks the same.”

—“Fuck corporate consolidation.”

Listening to UAW President Shawn Fain speak @Netroots_Nation #NN24

“That is the billionaire game, to divide and conquer…[..]…we do have a crisis at the border. It’s not a security crisis, it’s a humanitarian crisis.” “They divide us to keep us weak..where do the profits go? Where is our fair share?”

Gooood afternoon. I’m in DTLA today reporting on the Biden Campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater for @TheRealNews. Activists will gather later to draw attention to Biden’s continued goalpost-shifting in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Big fence erected around the theater. Today’s fundraiser had a top tier ticket price of $500k and Frmr Pres. Obama is slated to speak. Top democratic donors and A-list celebrities will be here. They’re letting folks in at side entrances a full hour early.

I’m here at UCLA for @TheRealNews reporting on a second encampment that has been erected outside Kerkhoff Hall. Cops set up a perimeter around the entire building, students and student workers are congregating outside. Seeing UCLA police, event staff, APEX private security, and other police agencies here. Currently no food or water being allowed past the perimeter. Students on the bullhorn from inside the encampment chanting “Free Free Palestine”

I’m here at UCLA with @joeyneverjoe for the Nakba Remembrance Day rally. Solid group of folks here listening to student speeches.
The scheduled Robert Spencer speech that was supposed to happen elsewhere on campus at 5:30 has reportedly been cancelled

Here with @joeyneverjoe after a recent call by UCLA encampment folks to come to the campus and support their ongoing demonstration. It is,,,very loud here.

https://twitter.com/joeyneverjoe/status/1785540275118735418

Pro-Israel folks are trying to rile up the Gaza encampment folks, who to their credit are holding a dance party and clapping along to the music the pro-Israel crowd are playing.

I’m here at UCLA in Los Angeles checking out the new Gaza encampment that sprang up this morning.

https://twitter.com/mel_buer/status/1783519887727685683

Watching a really masterful de-escalation between the encampment safety team and some loud Zionists trying to provoke a reaction with encampment residents

Outside LaborNotes in Chicago It appears some pro-Palestine folks got arrested and folks are now blocking the car with the arrestees from leaving

GALESBURG, IL—I’m here at the rally for railroaders and Greg Regan with the TTD is now speaking.
“I think people are finally waking up to how important rail workers are to this country.” “You’re the ones to deliver this work, and you deserve your fair share in all of that. These are the type of actions where we need to tell our story…”