{"id":490783,"date":"2026-01-04T02:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490783\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:33:27","slug":"philadelphians-protest-u-s-military-attacks-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490783\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphians protest U.S. military attacks in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DiNucci said she hopes people continue to protest and that Congress moves to impeach Trump for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Von Weltin, a 30-year-old South Philly resident who works in tech, said she attended the protest to fight \u201cagainst this idea that U.S. intervention in Venezuela is \u2026 in the interest of Venezuelan people\u201d or U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to get Exxon and other oil companies back into Venezuela to take their natural resources and \u2026 take anything from the people so that they can\u2019t make their own destiny, or \u2026 govern themselves like they want,\u201d she said. \u201cThey want another client state that they can just take whatever they want from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-726941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/protest-7-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"More than 100 people marched from Philadelphia City Hall to the U.S. Armed Forces recruitment center on Spring Garden Street\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>More than 100 people marched from Philadelphia City Hall to the U.S. Armed Forces recruitment center on Spring Garden Street on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2025, to protest the U.S. military attacks in Venezuela. (Emily Neil\/WHYY)<\/p>\n<p>Katie Miernicki, who attended the protest with the Philadelphia Party for Socialism and Liberation, said she and other activists had been monitoring the \u201cwar drive against Venezuela that\u2019s been building up,\u201d but said the Trump administration\u2019s actions Saturday were \u201cincredibly shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of whatever accusations the U.S. government makes, I think it\u2019s criminal and disgusting that our government is spending their time and money kidnapping presidents of other countries instead of taking care of people here at home,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we know that this is a very unpopular thing, so we wanted to show our support with the Venezuelan people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-726933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/philadelphia_venezuela_protest2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Philadelphians protest U.S. military attacks in Venezuela at a march\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"  \/>Philadelphians protest U.S. military attacks in Venezuela at a march on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2025. (Emily Neil\/WHYY)<\/p>\n<p>Miernicki said she wants to see people come out and protest, despite the cold weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that we can continue to build a very strong anti war movement here and across the country, because it\u2019s very clear that this is unpopular and there\u2019s a lot more pressing causes that the money and time that they\u2019re spending on this should go to, especially here in Philadelphia,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Stephenson, 24, a product manager in North Philadelphia, joined the protest after walking by and hearing noise. He said he was going to look for more information about the events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI barely even saw the news about it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m getting my news now \u2026 I didn\u2019t know we, like, stole their president, so that\u2019s not good, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DiNucci said she hopes people continue to protest and that Congress moves to impeach Trump for his actions.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,7329,1448,2830,1311,4352,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32322],"class_list":{"0":"post-490783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bombing","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-trump-administration","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115834493600975978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}