Playwright and Literature Professor Ariel Dorfman: “Now America Knows How Chile Felt”
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American playwright, novelist, human rights activist and an emeritus professor of literature at Duke University. In an op-ed titled “Now, America, You Know How Chileans Felt” that appeared in the New York Times on December 17, Dorfman describes how after Salvador Allende had won the presidential election in 1970, U.S. President […]
MIT Faculty: “The President-elect has appointed individuals to positions of power who have endorsed racism, misogyny and religious bigotry, and denied the widespread scientific consensus on climate change.”
More than 500 members of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have issued a statement opposing Trump’s official appointments and “upholding the value of science and diversity.” The signers include people from every academic department at MIT, nine department and program heads, and four Nobel Prize recipients. Notable signatories to date include […]
Neveragain.tech: “We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable”
On December 13, a group of people who work in tech organizations and companies based in the U.S. issued a strong statement pledging “solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administration’s proposed data collection policies.” They said they refuse to build databases of people based […]
Shaun King: “No, we should not wait and see what a Trump administration does. We should organize our resistance right now.”
New York Daily News columnist Shaun King’s writes: “Now, in the name of a peaceful transition, both President Obama and Hillary Clinton are striking a conciliatory tone. I understand that such a tone is a tradition in American politics, but everything about Donald Trump and this election breaks with tradition. President Obama may feel obligated […]
In a piece titled “Forward Ever, Normal Never: Taking Down Donald Trump” in Monthly Review, Susie Day writes:
“People often compare the ascendance of Trump and his cabinet of deplorables to the rise of the Nazis—taking momentary refuge in the fact that 1933 Germany didn’t have the nuclear option. Apropos of Trump’s take on flag burning, one of the first things Hitler did as chancellor was to rescind freedom of speech, assembly, the press. . . Then the […]
Singer John Legend
“Trump is saying Hitler-level things in public… And I feel like it’s dangerous for us to be complacent” Read John Legend’s comments here.
In a piece titled “Forward Ever, Normal Never: Taking Down Donald Trump” in Monthly Review, Susie Day writes:
“People often compare the ascendance of Trump and his cabinet of deplorables to the rise of the Nazis—taking momentary refuge in the fact that 1933 Germany didn’t have the nuclear option. Apropos of Trump’s take on flag burning, one of the first things Hitler did as chancellor was to rescind freedom of speech, assembly, the press. . . Then the […]
Green Day at American Music Awards
November 20: NO TRUMP! NO KKK! NO FASCIST USA! During the live TV broadcast of the American Music Awards on Sunday night, November 20, the punk rock band Green Day let loose with a defiant condemnation of Donald Trump. In the middle of performing “Bang Bang,” from their latest album Revolution Radio, the band, led […]
Cornel West: “Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here”
…In this bleak moment, we must inspire each other driven by a democratic soulcraft of integrity, courage, empathy and a mature sense of history – even as it seems our democracy is slipping away. We must not turn away from the forgotten people of US foreign policy – such as Palestinians under Israeli occupation, Yemen’s […]
“Farewell, America” by author Neal Gabler, November 10
Whatever place we now live in is not the same place it was on Nov. 7. No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they will now look at us differently … With Trump’s election, I think that the ideal of an objective, truthful journalism is dead, never to […]