Foreign antibase protesters distinguish opposition to bases from anti-Americanism

Evidence

In many movements worldwide, protesters go to great lengths to emphasize that their opposition is not motivated by anti-Americanism. During a huge national demonstration in Vicenza, members of a Rome-based group called Americans for Peace and Justice were overwhelmed with support. “We could hardly move because everyone kept stopping us to applaud and take our pictures,” Stephanie Westbrook recounted. “People were hugging and kissing us, giving us flowers and glasses of wine. It was an extraordinary outpouring of love and sympathy.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 948

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 948
• XREF: connects to: Similarities in protest tactics across countries can mask crucially different local conditions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 46