Call a mass meeting (really spread the word) and take up the following agenda points:
- Read and discussthe orientation in our call for 10 Days of Defiant Protestsand how this can and must contribute to major advances in the mission described in the RefuseFascism.org Call to Action.
- Plan massive contingents in each of the major protests. Set meet up times and places for the contingents on the days of the marches and send it to our website. Plan and build for mass sign and banner making parties in the lead-up. Reach out and involve students, faith groups, artists, professionals and others.
For the April 22 March for Science and the April 29 People’s Climate March: East of the Mississippi: Organize buses or a caravan to join the major Refuse Fascism contingent at the main marches on April 22 and April 29 in Washington, DC. West of the Mississippi (or if you really can’t get to DC) organize contingents in local marches.
For the May 1st protests for immigrants: Build a contingent for the protest in your area. If there is no protest planned, organize your own or caravan to a protest elsewhere.
- Attend organizing meetings for the Science/Climate/Immigrant marches. Endorse the marches and let people know about the contingents we are planning. Get to know people and work with them wherever possible to both a) strengthen the marches in their own right and, b) to deepen people’s understanding of the need to drive the fascist regime from power as concentrated in the Refuse Fascism Call to Action.
It matters that these marches be as powerful as possible, drawing in the broadest possible swath of people to stand up around each of these essential issues. It also matters that growing numbers of people engage with, and growing numbers take up, the analysis/mission of the Call to Action, including this: “Protest and resistance continues against the many attacks on the people by the Trump/Pence administration. This must grow broader, deeper, and more determined. This resistance is righteous and necessary, but it is not sufficient. We must recognize that the character of fascism is that it can absorb separate acts of resistance while continually throwing the opposition off balance by rapidly moving its agenda forward. The Trump/Pence regime will repeatedly launch new highly repressive measures, eventually clamping down on all resistance and remaking the law… IF THEY ARE NOT DRIVEN FROM POWER.” Spread the No! and the Call to Action among the organizers and very broadly in society.
- Make creative and daring plans to spread the wordabout these marches and the Refuse Fascism contingents and mission all over society. Be outrageous, we are facing a true emergency. Channel the disruptive urgency and irreverence for business-as-usual of people like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and ACT UP. If you don’t know about them, watch some clips and footage on YouTube.Widely distribute the Refuse Fascism flyer for this month with the Call to Action. Post it in coffee shops and on campuses, hand it out at protests, transit hubs, concerts, religious gatherings, public forums, and more.
Sign people up and involve them on the spot. Help them connect to Refuse Fascism on social media using their phone while you are with them.
- Raise massive funds.One of the most meaningful ways that people can strengthen this movement is to donate massive fundsfor materials, advertising, the National Office, the National Organizing Tour, and other needs. Make it a matter of discipline to ask absolutely everyone who expresses support to donate funds – on the street, at meetings, during phone-banking, at a party, etc. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are urgently needed.
Write and call our National Office to share with us how this work is going, obstacles or questions you run into, advances you make and/or ideas your have that people in other areas might learn from.
Take pictures and video to spread your efforts and build momentum on social media-
Tag @RefuseFascism
Use #NoFascistUSA
Write or call to let us know how it’s going or for help:
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