About 35 people gathered at Gainesville’s Albert “Ray” Massey Park at noon Sunday to protest U.S. military action in Venezuela and Immigration and Customs Enforcement across the country.
Peoples Progressive Agenda, a Gainesville-based group that describes itself as non-partisan, organized the protest. The event’s purpose was to call for no foreign invasions and no invasion of U.S. cities by ICE, according to a description on the group’s Facebook page.
Demonstrators said their concerns were fueled by recent national events, including a fatal shooting involving an ICE officer earlier this week in Minnesota and a Jan. 3 U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro…