A Trump supporter is threatening to attack protesters at an upcoming Trump rally in West Virginia, where Refuse Fascism and others have called for protests.
Dana Capron posted on his Facebook page, “Calling all armed conservatives, if we go then we go armed…We start with anyone blocking the streets then we clear the protesters once and for all, by any means necessary.”
This is intolerable. These threats of violence – and even murder – are aimed at intimidating and silencing people protesting Trump. We will not be intimidated. We will not back down.
Instead, we call on everyone within driving distance to come out to protest Donald Trump’s rally in Huntington, West Virginia this Thursday 4:00 pm, August 3, in even greater numbers as part of actively defying this fascist intimidation.
RSVP and spread the Facebook event. Raise the demand: In the name of humanity, we REFUSE to accept a fascist America. Trump and Pence Must GO!
If you can’t come, please make a donation today to support the caravans traveling to West Virginia from New York and Ohio.
We are in a critical moment, as the fascist Trump/Pence regime is fighting to consolidate power in America.
At Trump’s latest rally on Long Island, he openly called for police brutality during a speech to cheering law enforcement officials.
Days before in Youngstown, Ohio, he gave the speech of an American Hitler, where he made vicious threats and whipped up hatred against immigrants. Organized groups of fanatical thugs are being unleashed, from the NRA releasing videos targeting leaders of the Women’s March and other protesters, to armed militias counter-protesting at July 15 RefuseFascism.org demonstrations around the country.
In Portland, Oregon, two men were stabbed to death and one was badly injured after they intervened when a Trump supporter savagely harassed two young women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. These murders have a clear link to the regime’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.
All of this is tied to a change in how society is governed. Fascism relies on open terror from the state and the mobilization of organized groups of fanatical mobs to commit atrocities against the people–especially those who are deemed “enemies”, “undesirables,” and dangers to society.
Fascism in America must be opposed in growing numbers by everyone with a heart and a conscience.
There is only one thing that can end this fascist nightmare: millions of people getting organized to drive OUT the Trump/Pence regime through mass political resistance, taking to the streets day after day, night after night, not stopping until this regime is gone.
We know from history that it can become too late to stop fascism. But it is not yet too late. Don’t wait and see, don’t let them drag away your neighbors, don’t let them send in their police and ICE officials to brutalize Black and brown people or to round up immigrants. There are millions of us against this, and we must seize the time to act together to raise the demand: Trump and Pence Must GO! In the Name of Humanity, we Refuse to Accept a Fascist America. Drive out the Trump/Pence regime!
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