Rage Against The War Machine Rally.

If the goal is ending US support for Ukraine, people who are opposed to Putin's actions but think the US shouldn't be involved and people supportive of Putin who think the US shouldn't be involved should be able to work together on that one issue, everything else being equal.

That doesn't mean I don't have issues with some of the demands of the Rage Against The War Machine Rally. I don't think there are zero ways the US should support Ukraine, so I'm not the target activist to begin with. In their official demands, they accuse the US of blowing up pipelines between Russia and Europe, without evidence. I don't think we should disband NATO. The CIA may or may not have killed JFK 60 years ago, but there is no reason to insist it did when trying to build a coalition for the event. A lot of their demands are in the direction I want, but go way too far for most people when the whole point is having a diverse coalition of left, right, center, and others united behind a singular goal.

Like... If the LP is willing to work with Marxists, Democrats, Republicans, Greens, actual socialists and commies, RT journalists and the like for some causes that overlap, I'm all for that in theory. But they could have done a whole lot more to clean up the official demands and vet speakers.

This reminds me of the early days of BLM, actually.

The original organization had a website I visited before they cleaned it up, and I went to see what it said (primarily because I wanted to be an ally, because I was opposed to police brutality and supportive of police accountability). On that website, there were definitely things promoting Marxism, promoting extreme policies to address climate change, stuff on reparations and other welfare that was race rather than need specific, things on land use... If I remember right I think they even listed an opinion on abortion.

So I didn't want to march with them even before the violence, and I would have if it had been limited to demanding police accountability for misconduct. Like... If their demands had been ending qualified immunity, the promotion of body cams, ending no-knock raids, reforming how we prosecute the drug war, and greater transparency requirements, I would have been all in.

This rally is making some of the same mistakes, even if there wasn't controversies with some of the speakers.