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RefuseFascism Mission Statement
July 2021
RefuseFascism.org exposes, analyzes, and stands against the very real danger and threat of fascism coming to power in this country. Seventy-four million people voted for Trump in 2020. The Republi-fascist Party has been purged of dissenting voices. The mass fascist movement has hardened in the wake of their January 6 coup attempt. Fascist initiatives around restricting voting, immigration and abortion rapidly advance in statehouses across the country. The election of Biden has not eliminated the danger, it has only bought some time.
Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. Once in power, fascism’s defining feature is the essential elimination of the rule of law and democratic and civil rights. Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, misogyny, and the aggressive re-institution of oppressive “traditional values.” Truth is obliterated and fascist mobs and threats of violence are unleashed to build their movement and consolidate power.
The Democratic Party will not stop this nightmare. Trump, fascist Fox News, and the Republi-fascist Party have branded them as enemies and “traitors.” Yet, the Democratic Party will consistently pull to try to work with, conciliate with and collaborate with them. There can be no reconciliation with fascism except on the terms of the fascists. Fascism must be resolutely opposed.
RefuseFascism.org unites with people from diverse perspectives to sound the alarm and prevent the consolidation of this American fascism. Through our website, podcast, social media, and publications we engage, dialogue and debate with a broad array of writers, scholars, legal experts and people from different walks of life to educate people on the roots, nature, trajectory of the real and present danger of fascism. And, through our engagement and networking with people and social movements we are forging understanding and relationships aimed at preventing the consolidation of fascism.
Since the founding of RefuseFascism.org our stand and resolve have not wavered:
We pledge to the people of the world:
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!
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The very real danger and threat of fascism coming to power in this country
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The Trump/Pence regime is out of power, but 2021 has shown us that Trumpism – a virulent 21st century fascism based on white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia – is far from defeated.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a direct challenge to the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion
This round table sounds the alarm on this assault on women’s fundamental rights, deepens understanding of the stakes, arouses people’s fighting spirit to not let this go down, and explores what kind of future is possible and worth fighting for.
The Rittenhouse Trial and Two Sides in Contention:
A Beautiful Rising or Rising Fascism
by Coco Das
Reflections on Kenosha
By Paul Street
The Rittenhouse defense is glorification of lawlessness in the name of law and order – a key fascist calling card.
Protests Over the Not Guilty Verdict for Rittenhouse: Taking a Stand in the Streets
Voices in Outrage at the Rittenhouse Verdict
Andy Zee in Conversation with Paul Street on the Revolution Nothing Less show
Two Separate Nations: Developments in the State of Fascism and How That Is Shaping the Political Situation
Andy Zee is host of the Revolution Nothing Less show, Paul Street is an author, historian. Both are on the Editorial Board of refusefascism.org.
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Carol Anderson: White Supremacy & the Second Amendment
The shameful Rittenhouse acquittal, complicity of local police in the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery, defeat of the federal charges against the Unite the Right rally organizers… where does this all come from and how does this relate to a fascist offensive? Plus Sam Goldman interviews Dr. Carol Anderson, author of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.
Educational Gag Orders + Fascist Verdict in Kenosha
Coco Das addresses fascist verdict in the Rittenhouse trial and the message it sends. Plus Coco speaks with Jonathan Friedman, PEN America, about PEN’s new report “Educational Gag Orders” and the onslaught of legislation restricting public education in the US about race, gender and American history
A Beautiful Rising Or Rising Fascism? The Rittenhouse Trial
Sam Goldman and Coco Das discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in the proper context of the fascist movement he is a part of. And Sam interviews Vara Ramakrishnan with Strike for Choice on plans to take action on Dec 1 when the Supreme Court will hear Dobbs vs Whole Womens Health, the case which poses an imminent threat to abortion rights.
Elie Honig: The January 6th Insurrection Isn’t Over
Legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor Elie Honig discusses what we know about the January 6th insurrection and any chances for real accountability.
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Understand, STOP this American Fascism
Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. …What is crucial to understand is that once in power fascism essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights.
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The Danger is FASCISM… What IS Fascism?
Andy Zee’s remarks from a panel hosted by Sunsara Taylor, host of the radio program We Only want the World and co-host of The RNL — Revolution, Nothing Less — Show.
What are you going to do about the Nazi Problem?
By Coco Das
…Whatever moral and political stand the German people should have taken to defeat the Nazis early, however much determination they should have shown, applies to us tenfold now.- READ MORE
Why did 74 Million Vote for Trump?The simple and basic answer: Because they agree with him.
Presentation from Andy Zee at the panel discussion “Why did 74 million people vote for Trump?
What is the danger and what do we do about it?”
Trump has cohered diverse reactionary and fascist movements that predated his regime into a force that has now tasted power, is embedded in key institutions especially the courts, and that lives and seethes in its own conspiracy laden universe of victimization that will propel an aggreived revanchism. This is a movement that is not going away. – READ ANDY ZEE’S PRESENTATION
Bob Avakian: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America: A Better World IS Possible!
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Bob Avakian is the revolutionary leader who has – for decades – been warning of the development of a fascist movement in the US.
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a direct challenge to the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion
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What is Refuse Fascism?
RefuseFascism.org was initiated on an emergency basis in the wake of the election of Trump and Pence in 2016. Our founding mission called on all who recognized the catastrophic danger of the Trump/Pence regime to unite and organize to drive the regime out of power through sustained, non-violent mass protest. We pledged to the world that we would not stand aside while there was still a chance to stop a regime that imperiled humanity and the earth itself. With our slogan: In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! And our single unifying demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
This Pledge to the People of the World, initiated by Refuse Fascism, appeared in the New York Times on November 9, 2020
Co-initiator of Refuse Fascism Cornel West on the impact of the analysis and work of Refuse Fascism over the past five years
It was the Refuse Fascism movement … that has put fascism on the map for the past five years. And that needs to be said!
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