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Protest Grows ‘Out of Nowhere’ at Kennedy Airport After Iraqis Are Detained
Eli Rosenberg
Protests at J.F.K. Against Immigration Ban
Peaceful
demonstrations began Saturday afternoon at Kennedy International
Airport in Queens, where nearly a dozen travelers had been detained, an
airport official said.
By DAPHNE RUSTOW and AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER on January 28, 2017.
Photo by Victor J. Blue for The New York Times.
Watch in Times Video »
It began in the morning, with a small crowd chanting and holding cardboard signs outside Kennedy International Airport, upset by the news that two Iraqi refugees had been detained inside because of President Trump’s executive order.
By the end of the day, the scattershot group had swelled to an enormous crowd.
They
filled the sidewalks outside the terminal and packed three stories of a
parking garage across the street, a mass of people driven by emotion to
this far-flung corner of the city, singing, chanting and unfurling
banners.
This
was the most public expression of the intense reaction generated across
the country by Mr. Trump’s polarizing decision. While those in some areas of the country were cheered by the executive order, the reaction was markedly different for many in New York. References to the Statue of Liberty and its famous inscription became a rallying cry.
Similar protests erupted at airports around the country.
Word
of the protest at Kennedy first filtered out on social media from the
immigrant-advocacy groups Make the Road New York and the New York
Immigration Coalition. It seemed like it might stay small.
But the drama seemed to rise throughout the day.
There was the release of Hameed Khalid Darweesh, one of the two Iraqi refugees who had been detained, who said the United States was the greatest country in the world.
Hameed Khalid Darweesh, center, after being released from detention at Kennedy Airport on Saturday.
Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
“This
is the humanity, this is the soul of America,” he said, surrounded by
reporters and a handful of protesters holding supportive signs. “This is
what pushed me to move, leave my country and come here.”
Just
past 3 p.m., a man with a social media megaphone gave it a blow.
“Everybody in NYC area — head to JFK Terminal 4 NOW!” Michael Moore said on Twitter. “Big anti-Trump protest forming out of nowhere!”
People
were pouring in. Photos traveled far and wide on social media and on
cable networks like CNN, which reported live from the protest.
By
sundown, the crowd had grown into the hundreds or more, spreading along
the parking apron and onto the three floors of the parking deck
overlooking the terminal. They shouted downward in unison with the
crowd.
Passengers
with baggage-laden carts squeezed in and around knots of people as they
headed to and from the terminal. One group of four people, apparently
with a flight to catch, simply abandoned their cart in the parking lot
and rolled their bags to the unoccupied end of the terminal.
Cabdrivers joined in, with their union, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, calling for an hourlong work stoppage for drivers serving the airport during the height of the protest.
In
the evening, people complained on social media that they were being
prevented from boarding the AirTrain, the link from the subway to the
airport. Photos circulated of police officers standing in front of the turnstiles.
Alison
Brockhouse, 33, said she had arrived around 7 p.m. and had been told
that the police were letting only people with airplane tickets onto the
public transportation system. “I was a little incredulous at first,” she
said. “I’ve never really seen anything like this.”
The Port Authority wrote in a post on Twitter, “AirTrain JFK controls in place for public safety, due to crowding conditions.”
But Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, stepped in amid a rising drumbeat of anger at an AirTrain station.
“I have ordered the Port Authority to reverse its decision regarding the JFK AirTrain,” Mr. Cuomo said in a news release put out shortly after 8 p.m. “The people of New York will have their voices heard.”
Still,
the minutes ticked by at the AirTrain station, as the police refused to
let people through even after the announcement, Ms. Brockhouse said.
There was a moment where it was not clear if the large crowd would be
able to attend the protest. But about 15 minutes later, the police
stepped aside, and the crowd was let past.
U.S.
stocks closed mostly lower on Friday after a monumental week that
pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 20,000 for the first time
as investors weighed disappointing fourth-quarter data on domestic
economic growth and a spate of earnings.
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today:
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.9
percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 (table 1), according to the
"advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the
third quarter, real GDP increased 3.5 percent.
‘Reform’ Isn’t the Answer to Everything
Don’t
look to the ghost of Reagan to solve today’s economic problems —
structural reforms are less popular, and less likely to be effective,
than ever before. Satyajit Das says the most important thing now is for policymakers to shore up weak demand.
After
rising for three straight days, the Dow Jones Industrial Average on
Friday was poised for a pullback, with fourth-quarter GDP data and a
spate of earnings, including those from Dow component Chevron, among the
factors investors need to consider.
Investors’
renewed enthusiasm for risk continued into Asia-Pacific trading on
Friday morning, as equities continued to build on recent gains and the
dollar crept upward, breaching 115 yen for the first time this week.
Britain’s
impending withdrawal from the European Union has drawn attention away
from a different kind of crisis -- the one afflicting its National
Health Service. Either the NHS will need a lot more investment, or
Britons will have to prepare for a seriously impaired health-care system.
Japanese
and Hong Kong shares were up more than 1 percent on Thursday, taking
their cues from the Dow Jones industrial average shooting past 20,000
after a volley of executive orders by President Donald Trump.
U.S. equities closed at all-time highs on Wednesday after a series of executive orders from President Donald Trump increased bullish sentiment on Wall Street, while financials outperformed.
Jean Seaton: The seeds were sown during the George W Bush era
Reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four again, now, hurts. And I’m not the only one to be revisiting it: sales of the book have soared
in the past week. What you had previously thought you read at a cool,
intellectual distance (a great book about “over there”, somewhere in the
past or future) now feels intimate, bitter and shocking. Orwell is
writing of now when he writes, “Every year fewer and fewer words, and
the range of consciousness always a little smaller.”
Of course, we all have to keep our heads (especially we have to keep our heads). The lies about the crowd size
at Donald Trump’s inauguration by the hapless White House spokesman
Sean Spicer at his first briefing were not earth-shattering. But any lie
from this podium is deeply unsettling. Any hopes that Trump or his team
were, underneath it all, “normal” rightwingers, have dissipated.
The
post-truth era certainly shares aspects of the dystopian world of
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Michael Gove’s infamous comment that Britain has had enough of experts
is just one step away from 2+2 = 5. In the interrogation scene in 1984
this is the most appalling moment: before now we read it as a ludicrous
indictment of the rejection of reality (surely, we conclude, the party
itself must know that 2+2 = 4; science, machines all depend on it). In
Nineteen Eighty-Four, the elite, personified by O’Brien, foster and
control this willingness to believe one thing one day, and one thing
another. Now, it seems, the party itself may believe the lie. As Orwell
writes: “Science, in the old sense, had almost ceased to exist. In
Newspeak there is no word for science.”
Then there is privacy – Orwell puts the diary and the private
self at the heart of his writing. In 1984, keeping a diary is Winston’s
first act of transgression. Orwell knew that authoritarian regimes want
the heart and soul of people. His two-way telescreens predict social
media. And we have, perhaps unwittingly, wandered into a world where
feelings have never been more easily swayed: Trump summons them up
personally and directly. In the book, Winston is suddenly struck that
his mother’s death, “had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no
longer possible … She had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty
that was private and unalterable.” It could no longer happen because
“there were fear, hatred and pain but no dignity of emotion, no deep or
complex sorrows”.
But this new world has been a while coming. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts” were foreshadowed by the George W Bush adviser who said in 2002 that the new American empire was “creating [its] own reality”.
As in the 1930s, war has been at the heart of the corrosion of trust in
politicians. The lies over Iraq and the quagmire of Afghanistan were
followed by the financial crash of 2008, and bankers’ bonuses – making
people far more willing to disbelieve the remote metropolitan media and
be drawn to the false dawn promised by Trump.
Yet these are the
obvious big lies. There has been a long drift away from rational beliefs
that we have watched too passively. Mistrust in facts was sown by the
insistence on creationism and climate change denial by politicians and
in many US churches. But it’s not just America – in India, government
officials say that cows don’t contribute to global warming because they breathe out oxygen. Even universities with their “no platforms” have added yeast to the brew.
Trump
is not O’Brien. He is more like a cut-price version of Big Brother
himself. Instead of the elite of Nineteen Eighty-Four, who keep Big
Brother’s identity a mystery while they keep total control, this Big
Brother, with his direct Twitter relationship with his followers, is
fully on show. And as Orwell foresaw, his slogan could be “Ignorance is
strength”.
Tim Crook: Trump takes doublethink to a new extreme
‘I imagine Trump would amuse and horrify him at the same time.’ Photograph: UPI / Barcroft Images
Trump’s first few days of office have been such an explosion
of propagandist grapeshot, it’s little wonder many people have been
reaching for copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four. His seminal essay Politics and the English Language should also go on the emergency reading list.
Orwell
said political language can be “designed to make lies sound truthful
and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure
wind”. Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote
that this week’s reference by Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway to
“alternative facts” means we have “come full Orwell”. But have we?
Orwell
certainly would have appreciated how the eruption of populist
demagoguery and the Brexit and Trump triumphs have generated a
“post-truth” anxiety in the mainstream media. Journalism’s key
institutions sense a crisis. Public sphere news and current affairs
interpretation is supposed to represent reality to the audience. Orwell
said that “realism” used to be called dishonesty, and wrote in his
account of the Spanish civil war, Homage to Catalonia, that bombs are
impartial because they killed the man they were thrown at, and the man
who threw them.
Orwell never set foot in America. But he was an avid critic
of its literature and politics, and would have conceded that his
attitude to the USA had elements of the very doublethink he dramatised
in Nineteen Eighty-Four. While he resented how post-second world war US
economic dominance frustrated the realisation of the British socialist
dream, he chose the American side against the Soviet Union in the cold
war.
After his death, his crystal-pane deconstruction of the
corruption of revolution and the totalitarian game were adopted as
propagandist weapons by the CIA against the Soviet Union. The early
transfer of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four to film was even financed by the CIA with the endings changed.
But
Trump takes doublethink to a new extreme, and if Orwell were alive
today, I imagine Trump would amuse and horrify him at the same time. The
key message in Nineteen Eighty-Four is that the purpose of propaganda
is to narrow and limit human consciousness, confuse human conscience,
and control and narrow the range of thinking. As all students of
Orwellian literature will recall, Squealer, the propagandist porker in
Animal Farm, can “turn black into white” and is expert in “new belief”.
If
any Orwellian unmasking of Trump rhetoric begins to hurt him, I imagine
the day will come when the president gestures with his characteristic
shape-and-pinch hand movement and bellows, “Fake Orwell”.
DJ Taylor: The parallels are impossible to deny
It is just possible to feel a shred of sympathy with
Kellyanne Conway. Stung by incontrovertible evidence that more people
were keener on complaining about her boss than supporting him, took
refuge in a form of words that would have been hilarious were they not
at the same time horribly sinister. But it would be wrong to judge her
too harshly for her defence of Sean Spicer’s “alternative facts”. She is
a PR, operating in a world where all values are expedient.
It’s
useless to pretend that this isn’t all sharply reminiscent of the world
of Nineteen Eighty-Four (by coincidence, Orwell died 67 years ago to the
day that the anti-Trumpites marched on Washington). Winston Smith,
sitting in his cubby-hole at the Ministry of Truth falsifying
back-numbers of the Times in accordance with the latest revisionist
diktats from on high, deals in “alternative facts”, or rather with
deliberate untruths that eventually become facts merely because the
former versions of them are no longer around to disturb.
The same
goes for the periodic “readjustments” (ie reductions) of the amount of
rationed goods available to the cowed citizenry of Orwell’s Oceania.
There, the impact of cuts can always be reduced by altering the words of
the previous announcement.
Inevitably, much of this manipulation
can be traced back to Orwell’s monitoring of the concealments and
evasions of the second world war – the Katyn massacre,
for example, when thousands of Poles were murdered by Soviet secret
police and which some Russian history books omit altogether – but its
roots lie in his experience of fighting against Franco in the Spanish
civil war. It was here, he later wrote, that he first read newspaper
accounts of battles that had not taken place and heard reports of
soldiers charged with cowardice whom he knew had fought bravely.
None of which should obscure the fact that this defender of
objective truth was also a propagandist (working for the BBC’s Eastern
Service in the early 1940s, Orwell once complained that the fault of the
government’s war-time propaganda was that it needed to do its job more
effectively.) At the same time, he was confident that there were lines
which neither right nor left in western democracies would cross. The
Daily Telegraph, for instance, features near the top of a list he once
compiled of newspapers which were reliable. He might not have agreed
with the way it interpreted the news, but he believed the information it
contained was accurate.
As for what Orwell might have thought of
President Trump and his entourage, he would probably have drawn
attention to the steady war of attrition fought by various political and
corporate oligarchies over the past 50 years against the idea that it
can be said that a particular event definitely happened, whether you
approve of it or not. He might have pointed out, too, that these
obfuscations are not merely a byproduct of total war – who could really
complain about the RAF rigging the numbers of Nazi planes brought down
in the Battle of Britain? – but part and parcel of the way in which a
certain kind of contemporary autocrat and reality-twister faces up to
the world.
Meanwhile, it is worth asking what the average person
is supposed to do in a landscape where the leader of what used to be
called the free world has such a wanton disregard for one of the
principal tools of freedom. Even Big Brother, after all, brought a
certain amount of guile to pretending what he said was true.
U.S.
stocks were set for another upbeat trading day on Wednesday, with the
Dow Jones Industrial Average looking to open within arms reach of the
psychologically-important 20,000 level.
Asian
stocks rose Wednesday amid improved risk sentiment from both regional
economic data and overnight gains in the U.S. for both stocks and the
dollar.
