Nearly three months after an attack on marchers on Boulder’s Pearl Street, leading to the death of a woman and injuries to 15 others, marchers say they will no longer announce their location in advance for weekly marches.
“I just feel very responsible for these people, and I don’t want any harm to happen on these walks,” said Rachel Amaru, founder of the Boulder chapter of Run for Their Lives.
The organization says its purpose is to call for the release of any remaining hostages held by Hamas since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack in Southern Israel.
Amaru and other marchers have been the target of withering verbal attacks by counterprotestors both at the marches and outside Boulder City Council chambers, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators continue to call upon the city to divest from any financial ties to Israel. At times, the Run for Their Lives marchers have been called Nazis and are accused of complicity in genocide. They have been called obscene names and racist…