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Activists around the world react to Capitol siege

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Activists around the world say the U.S. Capitol siege demonstrated white supremacy remains a pervasive problem in the U.S. Naomi Fontanos, executive director of Gender and Development Advocates (GANDA), an LGBTQ advocacy group in the Philippines, on Saturday told the Washington Blade “the attack on the U.S.

Capitol was not a revelation, but a confirmation of what America is really is: A hotbed of structural, institutional and systemic racism.” “After the massive protests brought about by the death of George Floyd, it was saddening to see that not much has changed in terms of white supremacist, toxic masculine aggression and violence and how easily these can be mobilized under a macho-fascist leader like Trump,” said Fontanos.

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