(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Multiple groups joined together for a community rally and march on Monday, Feb. 17 at City Hall.
According to the Colorado Springs People’s Coalition (CSPC), they and multiple other groups joined together at City Hall at 107 North Nevada Avenue at 1 p.m. to march to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office at 27 East Vermijo Avenue and then back to City Hall.
The groups are comprised of:
Colorado Springs People’s Coalition
La Casa Brown Berets
Freedom Road Socialist Organization Denver
Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition Action Fund
Chicano Liberation Committee
Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission
Southern Colorado Black and Pink
UCCS Students for Justice in Palestine
A statement from CSPC said the groups are protesting President Donald Trump’s agenda which they say are putting many people in harm’s way.
“His cruel treatment of migrants, refusal to acknowledge trans people’s existence, support for racist and violent police, blocking of reproductive rights, calling for the forced displacement of Palestinians, all of these horrific policies and others have to be called out and fought,” writes CSPC.
