A call to protest from Refuse Fascism Ohio Chapter
Protest Trump outside his “campaign rally” in Youngstown, Ohio!
Tuesday July 25, 4PM
229 East Front Street
Youngstown, OH 44503
Calling on everyone to come to Youngstown– from Ohio, PA, Indiana, and beyond!
directions and parking
Let’s make sure that when he speaks, working to further rally “his people” behind the regime’s white supremicist, fascist, message of hate – he doesn’t go unopposed.
Join us in protesting his speech in Youngstown, home to one of the private prisons shut down by the federal government as “substandard” for federal prisoners – now turned detention center for hundreds of immigrants who have done nothing but live here to work.
Stand up and say NO! to the fascist program of Trump and Pence
Join us to say NO! In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!
The Trump/Pence regime has begun subverting the separation of powers, the separation of Church and State, called for a new nuclear arms race, demonized the press, dismissed the very concept of truth substituting their own fabricated “alternative facts.” It can already be said of Trump/Pence that “first they came for” the Muslims, then the Mexicans, then all refugees, then women, then Black and Latino people, LGBTQ persons, the environment, and anyone who doesn’t conform or submit to their vision and plan for a nation cohered around white supremacy and a political form of Christian fundamentalism, that should rightly be called Christian Fascism.
Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, misogyny, and the aggressive re-institution of oppressive “traditional values.” In Trump’s election campaign he encouraged and fed on the threat and use of violence to build a movement and come to power. In his inaugural address he pledged allegiance only to this movement. What is crucial to understand is that once in power fascism essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights.
Even as the Trump/Pence Regime is moving fast, they have not yet fully consolidated their regime, or, as yet, been able to implement their full program. But, this is their objective and it is very possible. It might only take a single serious crisis – international or domestic — for this regime to drop the hammer. We do not have much time.