Family Separation Protests Shift the Narrative
Saturday’s march against family separation grew into a much broader appeal for moral high ground.
WASHINGTON, D.C. The pathway of protest is well known to those who choose to walk it. Often starting with gatherings in Lafayette Square, where rallies can rattle the windows of the adjacent White House, people stream onto Pennsylvania Avenue, heading to go make a human wreathe around the Department of Justice and other government buildings. Over the past year, the pathway has become well worn, the sight of thousands of footprints on the grass in the city’s squares or the National Mall much more commonplace. descended upon the nation’s capital, they hewed close to what’s now become a D.C. leitmotif.
