Saturday, July 15 Nationwide Demonstrations Demand:
The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!
Press Advisory 14 July 2017
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Saturday, July 15 Nationwide Demonstrations Demand:
The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!
These protests will take place in 18 different cities with the singular demand that this regime must go!
There is widespread and visceral hatred and anger against this regime and its crimes. Millions are horrified by the daily acts and statements of this regime.
Suppressing dissent, bludgeoning truth, immigrant lives torn apart, Muslims banned, people denied health care and left to die, women under attack from a President who boasted of “pussy-grabbing,” countries threatened at whim, humanity held hostage to a regime that denies science and reverses even minor gains against a warming planet … and the list goes on and on. The daily assault on decency and humanity is relentless.
As the call for Saturday’s nationwide protests stated:
“Now is the time to act. The scandal and turmoil the regime faces is an opening through which the mass action of the people could burst through and make our demand resound throughout the country, in the halls of power, and around the world.”
“On July 15th ‘The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go,’ must be spoken, shouted, and acted on with fiercely creative determination. We have righteously marched for women, for science, for the climate, for immigrants, for Black Lives, for LGBTQ Pride. Now the resistance must pull together to drive this regime from power.”
Reactionary pro-Trump fascists and white supremacists have called for counter-protests in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Houston, and other places. On social media, and in some cities like Houston, they have called upon people to come with Confederate flags, and armed!
This is part of the overall – dangerous – mobilization of fascist thugs who are feeling emboldened and unleashed, backed by the highest offices of the land and its lies-and-hate trumpets like Fox News.
Protest organizers, in the face of these threats are not backing down, but calling on everyone, the millions who hate this regime and everything it stands for, to manifest on July 15. In Los Angeles, Michelle Xai of Refuse Fascism responded: “These fascists have crawled out of their swamp because they are stung by the fact that the reality TV star now helming this fascist regime is hated by billions around the world.”
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept A Fascist America!
Protests will take place in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Denver, Harrisburg, PA, Honolulu, Houston, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Portland OR, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Alameda CA.
In New York, Refuse Fascism is in the midst of #100HoursOfNo, where they are protesting in front of Fox News for 100 continuous hours. On the scene, Sunsara Taylor said “FOX is the Fascist News Network — the Goebbels of the Fascist Trump/Pence Regime. This is not hyperbole. This statement is based on actual facts, unlike the steady stream of lies and threats spewed from the regime’s mouthpieces at FOX.” For 100 Hours, day and night, they are calling on people to testify and protest against “the Trump/Pence Regime and the hate filled bile from the mouthpiece of FOX.”
NBC NY: #100HoursOfNo: 100 hour long protests in front of Fox News in NYC
LA Daily News: Protesters plan dueling rallies at Trump’s Hollywood star
The following went out on the Guardian’s weekly emailing “The Resistance Now”:
“More than 3,000 people are expected to gather in New York City on Saturday for an Impeach Trump! national day of protest. Protesters will gather outside Trump Tower for the event, which is organized by Refuse Fascism. The rather optimistic title – the event was initially called the Trump Impeachment Party – came to be because it was created ‘with the mindset that Trump would be impeached within a matter of weeks since his election’, said organiser Mohammad Hamad, adding that he and others will try to turn the march into something broader in the coming months. ‘We’ll continue to fight the Trump-Pence regime because they’ve already made their agenda clear and it will have a generational impact on Americans (and the world) if they get away with it,’ Hamad said.”
RefuseFascism.org is a nationwide movement that unites people of many perspectives and from all walks of life who recognize that the Trump/Pence Regime is a fascist regime that must be driven from power through the mass political protest of millions of people. They do this not just for themselves, but in the name of humanity.