{"id":295360,"date":"2017-02-17T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/truths-not-tweets-protesters-greet-trump-at-boeing-plant\/"},"modified":"2017-02-17T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:12:00","slug":"truths-not-tweets-protesters-greet-trump-at-boeing-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/truths-not-tweets-protesters-greet-trump-at-boeing-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"'Truths Not Tweets': Protesters Greet Trump at Boeing Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump was met with peaceful protesters<\/a> in North Charleston, South Carolina on Friday as he gave a speech at a Boeing plant in his first visit to the state since winning its Republican presidential primary last year.<\/p>\n

Members of Indivisible Charleston, a local resistance group, rallied at the North Charleston Coliseum near the plant, which produces the massive Dreamliner aircraft.<\/p>\n

At least 100 people gathered to listen to speakers, wielding signs that read, “Truths not tweets<\/a>,” and “No one is free when others are oppressed.”<\/p>\n

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100+ people here protesting Trump ahead of his Boeing visit pic.twitter.com\/jcdE6QQxZ5<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Deanna Pan (@DDpan) February 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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pic.twitter.com\/Oj1H8xbIFW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Deanna Pan (@DDpan) February 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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#ResistWithLove<\/a>@UniteWomenSC<\/a> @IndivisibleCHS<\/a> @indivisible_sc<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/hJvR153i5n<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bulldozer (@realLarryInSC) February 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the speakers read the 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King that opposed now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) famously attempted to read it on the floor of the Senate during Sessions’ confirmation vote this month, only to be censured<\/a> by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).<\/p>\n

Indivisible chapters<\/a> have sprung up throughout the country in response to the Indivisible Guide<\/a>, a field manual written by former congressional staffers that instructs local organizations on how to use the Tea Party’s obstructionist tactics\u2014honed during the Obama administration\u2014to oppose the rightwing agenda<\/a> in the White House and Congress, now under Republican control.<\/p>\n

Trump’s visit came just two days after Boeing’s thousands of workers voted against unionization, a somewhat predictable outcome in a region that has historically cracked down on workplace organizing.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Hirsch, law professor who specializes in labor relations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told<\/a>\u00a0WJLA<\/em>, “The culture here, at least in recent memory, has not been pro-union.”<\/p>\n

“If they were successful it would be huge, I think,” Hirsch says. “The numbers by themselves are not going to move the dial nationally in a substantive way, but the symbolism of it would be quite large.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via Common Dreams<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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