[Sdalliance] Where's the 'Resistance' for J20 Protesters Facing up to 70 years in p rison?

[Monty Kroopkin]

item for CRSD agenda? See also new article in The Nation, by NLG member Chip Gibbonshttps://www.thenation.com/article/the-prosecution-of-inauguration-day-protesters-is-a-threat-to-dissent/

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