No One Sets Out to Be Like Venezuela
by Ethan Andrews Tuesday, January 12, 2021 8:51 AM Signs in downtown Belfast on January 10, where Black Lives Matter and anti-mask protesters have held weekly rallies (Photos: Ethan Andrews) Sometime in the early aughts, maybe 2003, I traveled to Washington, D.C., for a protest against the Iraq War. As the march passed the White House, I remember looking up a side driveway to the building where the president lives and works and thinking that instead of walking around on the street, wouldn’t it be more effective to take our big peaceful crowd up there and have a word with the folks in charge?