After IKEA New Haven location promoted as MAGA event gathering spot, company says they’re not welcome
Updated Jan 16, 2021;
IKEA, the Swedish ready-to-assemble furniture company known for its affordable furniture and cafeteria-style meal offerings, is distancing itself from a planned political rally in New England.
“We’re aware that our New Haven (CT) store parking lot is being promoted as a meeting location for a MAGA event this Saturday. We ask those who plan to gather at IKEA New Haven to understand they are not authorized to use the property as a meeting location,” the company said in a statement Friday.
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Greenwich) speaks Tuesday at a Norwalk vigil organized by Democrats, while riding a train back to Washington D.C.
NORWALK, Conn. Messages of sadness, anger, frustration, and some small messages of hope were shared at a “DTC Vigil for Truth, Justice, and Unity” on Tuesday night.
“We thought that it was important to have something,” said Eloisa Melendez, chair of the Norwalk Democratic Town Committee. “Under different circumstances, we would all be together, figuring out a way to make sense of what happened last week, of what’s apparently to come in the next few days. And we just wanted to get this started – this conversation started.”