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DC subway workers union refusing to staff special cars designated for white nationalists attending Unite the Right anniversary rally

Author:     Bob Brigham
Source:     Raw Story
Publication Date:     04 Aug 2018 at 13:02 ET
Link: DC subway workers union refusing to staff special cars designated for white nationalists attending Unite the Right anniversary rally
Stephan:   Bravo Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689. This is how you stop christofacists. This is real citizen action. If those who knew ICE agents involved with the child concentration camps would shun them that situation would change very quickly.

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The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, the largest union for Washington, DC’s public transit system, is refusing to go along with a plan to have separate trains for participants of a controversial “Unite the Right” rally planned for August 12.

Jason Kessler organized last summer’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville and is organizing the rally as an “anniversary” celebration.

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that Metro board chairman Jack Evans said that the agency might provide separate trains for white nationalists attending the rally.

“We haven’t made any decisions about anything,” Evans said. “We’re just trying to come up with potential solutions on how to keep everybody safe.”

Transit workers were revolted by the proposal.

“Sources have shared with ATU Local 689 that a hate group with Ku Klux Klan affiliation will be provided three private Metro rail cars and police escort to Foggy Bottom Metro Station for the ‘Unite the Right’ 2018 rally,” ATU Local 698 said in a statement.

“More than 80% of Local 689’s membership is people of color, […]

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