How Protests in 1991 Changed Mount Pleasant
It’s the 35th anniversary of the protests that rocked D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood after the police shooting of El Salvadoran immigrant Daniel Gomez. Ellie Walton and Quique Aviles, creators of the documentary ‘La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered', are here to explain what happened and why they think it was a turning point for D.C.’s Central American communities. The documentary is showing for free at Lamont plaza in Mount Pleasant this Friday May 8.
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