Philly.com covered Refuse Fascism’s protest at the Army/Navy game as part of a piece it published on the reaction among people in Philly to Trump showing up for the game.
Coverage included this video:
And coverage included:
Samantha Goldman, one of the founding members of the Philadelphia chapter and a national organizer for the group said: “We were playing the ProPublica clip of children who had been ripped from their parents at the border” on speakers, Goldman said. Speaking at the demo in this YouTube clip she told the crowd “We are going to play this clip 14,000 times for each of the children separated from their parents.” “There were people who were laughing and waving me away. … That’s not to say that everyone there was against us. There were people who gave us high-fives who said thank you for being here.”
For nearly three hours, she said, she and other protesters chanted phrases including “No, no in the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America!” and “Refuse your orders!” The latter, Goldman said, was a reference to the troops who have been sent to the U.S.-Mexico border as a caravan of migrants arrives to seek asylum.