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REMEMBERING THE TREE OF LIFE TRAGEDY ONE YEAR LATER
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Community members gathered inside and outside of Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall on Oct. 27, 2019 for a memorial service marking one year since the Tree of Life tragedy on Oct. 27, 2018 when a gunman took the lives of 11 worshippers.
President Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh draws protesters Amanda Andrews Co-News Editor
If you were walking in the downtown area last Wednesday, you may have noticed something was a little off, especially once you hit the Cultural District. The entirety of the block surrounding the David Lawrence Convention Center was sectioned off by multiple police cars from three different ends. President Donald Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh last week had a seismic impact on the city. Anticipating the worst for commuters and traffic, 12 Pittsburgh Public Schools preemptively closed, multiple streets were closed off, some Point Park classes were cancelled and even major corporations like PNC requested that some of their workers not come downtown. And, if events could not get more dramatic, 14 demonstrators were arrested by Pittsburgh Police Wednesday morning. A number of different protests occurred over the course of the day. A rally, entitled “March For Truth: #ImpeachandRemove,” occurred during the president’s address and was organized by the Women’s March on Washington - Pittsburgh and Indivisible Pittsburgh. The main body of protesters were located outside the convention center, sectioned off by more than 40 Pittsburgh Police officers on just one side
of the building. By 4:30 p.m. an estimated 200 protesters were crowded the intersection of Penn Avenue and 10th Street, waving flags and signs as music pulsed through loudspeakers. “Whose streets? Our streets,” “Vote him out,” and “Impeach and Remove” were some of the chants that repeatedly rang out. The organizers had scheduled speakers to address the crowd of protesters. One of those speakers was Point Park freshman Christian Carter, a BFA theater major. Carter has been involved in political activism for a number of years and has a contact with the Women’s March on Washington - Pittsburgh leaders. During his speech, he recited the 1992 poem by Zoe Leonard “I want a president.” In an exclusive interview with The Globe, Carter spoke about why he chose to recite the poem as part of his address. “We want someone in a seat that has been affected by real American issues,” Carter said. “Someone who is not just a rich, white man who has had his whole life handed to him…I want someone with student debt. I want someone whose partner died from AIDS. I want someone who is radical.” Others present at the rally were inclined to disagree. 14 pro-Trump supporters were gathered together, some engaging in civil rhetoric with anti-Trump protesters. One of
the Trump supporters present was Randy Rodosky, a retired garbageman from Pittsburgh’s Munhall neighborhood. Rodosky stated that he was there “to show support for the president” and expressed distaste for the protesters. “They’re socialists. They’re communists. They’re anarchists,” Rodosky said. “They have no regard for a free election.” Jared Dickman, a freshman psychology major at the
university, said that he considers pro-Trump supporters to be “Nazis” and reflected on how the nation’s political climate has changed over the last several years from his point of view. “...I was trying to get someone to come down here with me and I’m like, ‘there’s nazis down the street if you want to go yell at them.’ You know, like five years ago, if you had heard there’s Nazis down the street, then some-
one would call the police, but that’s just a thing that we live with now,” he said. Rodosky also stated that he was aware that a mostly older demographic was there supporting President Trump and that “younger ones don’t know anything about anything yet.” A younger crowd of Trump supporters did eventually enter the scene right around the end of the rally, and words
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Katie Williams | The Globe A woman is arrested during city-wide protests that occurred in response to President Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh last Wednesday, October 23.
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