Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Dallas Against the Trump Agenda Coalition. The group plans to march on the RNC in Dallas on September 10.

Dallas Office of Special Events has cancelled our permit application to protest the RNC

As organizers attempt to exercise their First Amendment right to protest the midterm Republican National Convention, the city of Dallas has escalated from stalling our permit request to cancelling it.

Organizers applied for a permit and had repeatedly met with city officials to negotiate in good faith. From officials rejecting our original route without finalizing an alternative to city hall police and DPD ordering our organizers to leave the vicinity of the City Hall Plaza during our press conference, the city has placed obstacle after obstacle in our way.

Taken together, these actions appear intentional in an attempt to weaken the march, disrupt our preparations, and push protesters out of sight and sound of the convention.

The First Amendment protects our right to march and bring our message within sight and sound of its intended audience.

With the convention approaching, the process of finalizing this permit has gone from glacial to permafrost. In a phone call with the Office of Special Events, they mentioned that they were told by the Dallas Police Department to cancel our permit. Further, we were told that DPD wants us to fill out a “First Amendment Activity Request form.”

We will not accept being pushed around. We will exercise our right to assemble and our right to free speech. We will march on the Republican National Convention.

Republicans claim they’ll bring thousands of people to Dallas to organize behind the Trump agenda. We are preparing a family-friendly statewide march to represent the millions of people who reject the Trump agenda, to confront their attacks on immigrants, women, trans people, marginalized communities, anti-fascist organizations and people, and their hawkish pursuit of endless wars.

They don’t want us there. That is exactly why we have to show up.

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Dallas, TX – On August 14, people gathered for a lively talk by Dr. Michael Philips exploring the protests of the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas. The event was put on by the Dallas Against the Trump Agenda Coalition in the lead-up to the protests of the midterm Republican National Convention descending on Dallas on September 9 and 10 of this year.

Blake Van Wicken, a local Teamster and member of the immigrant rights group El Moviemiento, commented, “It was great to come together and learn about Dallas’ strong but often forgotten history of protest, and to connect that history to our moment as a new generation of Dallas organizers prepares to march on the Republican convention and oppose the Trump agenda.”

The protest of the Republican National Convention will take place at Pike Park on September 10, at 1 p.m., beginning at Pike Park and marching to American Airlines Center, where the convention is being held.

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Dallas Against the Trump Agenda (DATA) Coalition.

Dallas, TX – When Donald Trump and the Republican Party bring their national midterm convention to Dallas on September 9 and 10, they will be looking to use our city as a stage to promote their agenda. But Dallas will not simply be a backdrop for Trump and the Republican Party.

Dallas workers and communities are organizing to fight back

The Dallas Against the Trump Agenda (D.A.T.A.) Coalition has formed to unite organizations, community activists, workers and residents across Dallas in opposition to the Trump agenda and to build a lasting center of struggle against the attacks facing working and oppressed people. The Republican Party’s decision to hold its midterm national convention in Dallas is a deliberate attempt to put Trump and his political program at the center of the 2026 elections. The convention will take place at the American Airlines Center on September 9–10.

D.A.T.A. intends to make sure that the voices heard in Dallas that week are not just those of politicians, billionaires and Republican Party officials.

Dallas will fight back

On September 10, at 1pm, D.A.T.A. will take to the streets to protest the Republican convention and make clear that the Trump agenda does not represent the interests of working people in Dallas. The coalition is bringing together people who are fighting against deportations and ICE raids, attacks on workers and unions, racism and national oppression, attacks on immigrants, cuts to public services, attacks on education, police violence, militarism and war, and the broader assault on democratic and civil rights.

Join the protest on September 10 at 1pm outside the American Airlines Center [2500 Victory Ave, Dallas TX 75219]

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