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The Hill reports:
Stone Mountain Park in Georgia will close Saturday ahead of a rally planned in defense of one of the nation’s largest Confederate monuments. The City of Stone Mountain said in a statement Friday that it was closing the park in anticipation of at least two groups of counter-protesters converging at the site.
Far-right protesters have announced plans to rally in front of the monument, a group that reportedly includes white supremacists and anti-government militia members.
Stone Mountain Park has been the focus of a flood of criticism in recent years over its massive depiction of Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Jefferson Davis, some of the Confederacy’s chief figures, on horseback with hats over their hearts.
Carolyn Meadows, president of the @NRA, serves on the board of Stone Mountain – the world’s largest Confederate monument at the site of the founding of the second Ku Klux Klan in Georgia. Armed white supremacists will gather there this weekend. #gapol https://t.co/ZA9mqSYC8T
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 13, 2020
Stone Mountain Park to close Saturday ahead of anticipated white supremacist rally https://t.co/Sxk77dNaOD
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) August 14, 2020
The City of Stone Mountain, Georgia, is shutting down public transportation and urging the public to avoid the area tomorrow as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and militia members are expected to converge there. https://t.co/q2fPy8mYVZ
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) August 15, 2020
LIVE UPDATES: Several far-right groups, including militias and white supremacists, are planning to rally Saturday at Stone Mountain, and a broad coalition of leftist anti-racist groups are organizing a counter-demonstration. https://t.co/JqIUkCFJEj
— AJC (@ajc) August 15, 2020
Today right-wing activists and militias are converging on Stone Mountain Park in Georgia to hold a “Defend Stone Mountain” #Confederate rally.
Antifascists are gathering to oppose them.
Here, III% activists gather about a block East from Antifa, loading and prepping guns. pic.twitter.com/DjmVwBLBtc
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) August 15, 2020