Last Saturday, around 40 activists gathered at Columbus Statue Park in South Tampa to protest Tampa’s glorifying monument to a man who was a confirmed pedophile, rapist and slave trader. In front of the statue, Indigenous activists sang songs and prayed for the lives that were lost to genocide enacted by Christopher Columbus after he […]
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After 30 years of ongoing protests, Indigenous activists launch new campaign to remove Tampa’s Columbus statue
On Saturday, Indigenous groups will protest the Columbus statue and strategize a campaign to take it down.
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Florida Indigenous groups say Tampa’s Columbus statue will come down ‘one way or another’
The demand to remove the statue is decades old.
