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Pro-Columbus Day Rally Cancelled in Bangor

October 10, 2017

The rally organizer cancelled the event, but a few people showed up for and against, including a protester who called Columbus “a genocidal maniac.” Bangor is among several Maine municipalities that now calls Columbus Day “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”; the fair and balanced news story compares the planned pro-Columbus Day rally with the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August.