"Free" Speech rally next Saturday - cancelled! (updating/reposting)

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UPDATE: This event is a no-go! Many thousands of people expressed interest in counter-protesting, most of the speakers cancelled, and Mayor Walsh released a statement that the event was not welcome here.

I expect there will still be a rally against Nazis and white supremacist terrorism that day, and also there are related things like a "teach-in" (presumably about direct action and safer protesting) referenced in links in comments.

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Some of the same groups that fomented white supremacist hatred and terror in Charlottesville today will be in Boston next Saturday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNewRight/comments/6r4e3h/boston_free_speech_rally_august_19th/

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Here's Walsh's statement:
http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/08/14/boston-common-free-speech-rally

One of the things he said was that *no* permits were pulled for Saturday. Anti-hate rally organizers should do that as well.