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New York City rally supports Colin Kaepernick – Workers World

31.8.17

New York City rally supports Colin Kaepernick – Workers World: At the rally, speakers called for a boycott of NFL games by season ticket holders and TV viewers until Kaepernick is signed by a team. The NAACP has demanded a meeting with the NFL hierarchy, which represents the interests of the billionaire owners, on behalf of Kaepernick. Many held signs saying “#IamwithKap.”

Kaepernick, who is Black, sent shock waves throughout the NFL, other sports leagues and U.S. society as a whole, when he kneeled during the playing of the national anthem during the 2016 football season. He took a knee to protest racist police brutality, starting soon after the murders of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile outside St. Paul, Minn.


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