Beyond the Brink Organizing Large Protests

In this week’s segment of Beyond the Brink (And Fighting Back), Community activist Marianne Achlaoug talks with journalist Rosemary Armao about some of the nuts and bolts of mounting big citizen demonstrations. Achlaoug organized Capital District rallies that were part of the successful national campaign to get Avelo Airlines to back away from working on deportation flights for Homeland Security. She says young people may not be turning out in the big numbers that retirees are, but they are doing their part as are minorities who have to recognize there’s a danger to protesting. She says the media could overall do better at portraying the scope and importance of resistance we are seeing across the country, not just in Minnesota.