We Must Defend the Lives of People in Our Own Time
Donald W. Shriver, President Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary, Holocaust Remembrance Day, 4/24/17 When you visit the Yadvashem memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem, they give you a pin shaped in the form of the Hebrew word for “remember.” There are two strong reasons for all of us to remember the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust: […]
Our Obligation to Speak Up – This is an Illegitimate Regime
Do Not Let the Fascist Trump/Pence Regime Take Away our Freedom, Our Rights, Our Diversity, Our culture, the Environment and Humanity Itself! Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Professor of English, Creighton University (Professor Fajardo is one of the 195 professors on the rightwing “Professors Watchlist”. Remembering the Holocaust is an act of memory intended to honor the victims […]
Holocaust Remembrance Day Statement
Otto Meyerhoff (Statement by David Meyerhoff, grandson of Otto Meyerhoff, Nobel prize winner who survived the Holocaust. My parents and my grandparents escaped from Germany and survived the Holocaust. My grandfather was a world-famous scientist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. If you Google my last name, it will come […]
Fascism Needs to be Stopped Before It is Too Late
by Scott Morrell, who worked with Refuse Fascism on the Holocaust Remembrance Day action April 24, 2017 “WE hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness–“ The Trump/Pence regime are […]
Refuse Fascism Contingents for Climate March
***AUSTIN*** Saturday, April 29: Austin People’s Climate March! Meet us by our banner 12:30pm at the African American History Memorial at the Capitol. At 1:00 we’ll be moving closer to the capitol to join up with the rally and march. ***ATLANTA*** Saturday, April 29: People’s Climate March, National march in Washington DC Busses leaving Atlanta […]
Refuse Fascism calls out John Kelly and Jeff Sessions for their Nazi attacks on immigrants and declares “Never Again” on Holocaust Remembrance Day
New York, April 24 At a time when Homeland Security head John Kelly and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have been touring the U.S./Mexico border leading the charge to demonize and terrorize immigrants, about 25 people gathered on Holocaust Remembrance Day in front of the Jewish Heritage Museum in NYC, and marched in a procession to the […]
Never Again Will We Allow Another Holocaust to Happen to Any People.
by Scott Gilbert As I was growing up as a young man, I lived in a household where my mother had post-traumatic stress disorder. She was a holocaust survivor. The family of Anne Frank and Otto Frank were close friends of my grandparents’ family. My grandfather was arrested in 1933, and the rest of the family […]
We Have to Resist Now
Salman Aftab statement On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we of different faiths and nationalities stand together to say NEVER AGAIN! NEVER AGAIN will we allow another demonization and mass murder to happen to ANY people. This is our responsibility. I have said – first, they have come for the Mexicans, then Muslims, then the disabled. […]
All of Us Must Speak Out
Rev Taigen Dan Leighton Statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Nazi Holocaust involved elected leaders scapegoating a minority, the Jewish people, to enforce their brutal rule, and rounding up Jewish people into concentration camps, or “holocaust centers” as the current Press Secretary calls them. Gays and gypsies and those who helped the endangered were also […]