Otakon and "Unite the Right" rally
Obvious heads up is obvious, but I haven't seen it posted anywhere.
The rally is a mile away from the convention. Saturday has typically been the busiest day of Otakon, and Sunday the closing ceremonies start at 3:30.
Everyone be careful, take care of yourselves, and, if you don't want to be involved with the rally attendants or counter protesters, please avoid that area on your way out of town.
Again, I feel like this is obvious, but I wanted to make sure it was said.
Posted Aug 9, 2018, 2:19 AM UTC
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We will be on Saturday or Sunday, if I take the metro in from the Mall area and walk to the convention center from there, will I cross paths with the rally?
You probably will. I’d avoid that walk to be honest, just transfer to a yellow or green train and take it directly to the convention center. Otherwise you’ll be walking 30 minutes in the heat/rain.
L'Enfant Plaza to Mount Vernon on green/yellow line would be ok? I'm staying south of the Mall and L'Enfant is the closest to my hotel.
Absolutely. L’Enfant will be crazy, but it always is. I’d just grab a Yellow or Green train to Mt. Vernon Square. It should be a nice easy ride and since L’Enfant is so populated with tourists you shouldn’t have to deal with any unsavory individuals.
How, their rally is in Lafayette square
As u/FlightlessLad kind-of-sort of pointed out, you should just take the green/yellow line. There is a stop at L'Enfant Plaza if you are coming from the national mall area, no need to change lines.
Additionally, the Orange and Blue lines are beginning major track work this weekend, so you should avoid them at all costs (even before the nazis, the train was going to be a disaster this weekend)
Thanks, my original plan was green or yellow for L'Enfant Plaza to Mount Vernon. I don't really know the routes, but from Google maps that seemed like my easiest route. That should miss the rally?
Yep that's what you should do and you will (should) miss the rally almost entirely.
Realistically no one needs to worry about the rally itself, the right-wingers will be very outnumbered (DC is very liberal) and they should mostly be contained to their areas. It's the before and after the rally where people should just keep an eye out for drunks and whathaveyou
In any case, you're much more likely to see them being marginalized by local establishments and local people than to be harassed by them
No
The rally is later in the day so plan accordingly.