People For staff protest Far Right group Moms For Liberty and their attacks on books and public education.
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A controversial town hall at a typically apolitical Upper East Side venue brought a huge crowd of protesting New Yorkers who said the book-banning Moms For Liberty group holding the event promotes fascist values.
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"I'm the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors," said Alana Byrd, national field director for the group People For the American Way, "and I had to hear for years growing up about how this s--- starts — and this is how it starts."
"First they ban the books, then they say we're poisoning their blood," Byrd said, adding that she was expecting her first child this summer.
"I will be f---ed if I have to co-parent with these assholes," Byrd said.
