The Gritty City Antifascist Committee
Photo: Hamilton Nolan PHILADELPHIA—They certainly picked a place that made the symbolism easy. The big grassy field next to the Independence Visitors Center on Sixth and Market streets in Philadelphia is surrounded on all sides by a buffet of metaphors. To the north is the National Constitution Center, with the entire “We the people…” preamble carved in script on its front facade. To the east is the National Jewish Museum, where an enormous banner hangs with a George Washington quote: “For happily the government of the United States, gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no...
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