3 Aug 2018
Washington, DC, will be center stage next weekend as Unite the Right plans to mark the one-year- anniversary of the Charlottesville, Virginia, riot that led to one woman’s death and months of acrimony over the violence that broke out after a protest over the removal of a Confederate statue from a local park.
Counter-protesters, including Black Lives Matter and Antifa, plan to demonstrate on the same weekend.
Jason Kessler, one of the Unite the Right organizers, had applied for a permit in the same park in Charlottesville but was denied by the city, According to NBC, the National Park Service has approved a permit for the group to protest on Aug. 12 at Lafayette Park across from the White House.
For now, Black Lives Matter and others said they will be assembling blocks away at Freedom Plaza for their counter protest.
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https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/03/unite-the-right-blm-antifa-to-descend-on-d-c-for-protest-counter-protest/