Shit happened in Burlington, Vermont last night. We were marching down a fairly major street, blocking it off on the way from our rally back to the encampment when a group of Nazis arrived at the front and began shouting shit, threatening to kill us. I didn't get a good look at them, but they arrived in a truck and could have been armed.

The situation escalated and the cops showed up from behind, effectively boxing us in. We all had to get low to the ground and split up, one group holding the line against the Nazis, the other against the cops. According to folks in the back, the cops were shouting stuff like "Can't you get it through your heads? You need to let us through, the people up front have guns!", pretty clearly trying to intimidate us into breaking up and getting out of the street. Thankfully, the situation was somehow deescalated and everyone made it back safely without letting the cops through. Terrifying situation that's only a drop in what's going on in the US. Had the best fucking cig of my life after all that.