Organizers & chapters:
Here is the letter on November 4 to organizations, without change tracking.
The full letter is pasted below. Also below the letter are links to fundraising material.
Also, here are links in word and rtf.
9-26-17-Letter to organizations-Word
9-26-17-Letter to organizations- RTF
Dear——[name of organization or representative of organization]I am writing to arrange a meeting with you, to discuss ways for our organizations to collaborate and partner to stop the grave danger that the Trump/Pence Regime poses.
I write on behalf of RefuseFascism.org, which is a movement of people from diverse perspectives, united in our recognition that the Trump /Pence regime poses a catastrophic danger to humanity and the planet and that it is our responsibility to drive them from power. This means working and organizing with all our creativity and determination toward November 4 when many thousands of people will fill the streets of cities and towns across the country, beginning a struggle that must continue with protests that grow day after day and night after night, eventually involving millions of people, demanding: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
We invite {[the name of the organization] which has been [raising the issue of] [or, mobilizing your congregation to] [or leading resistance to] etc} to discuss the urgent situation humanity faces with this regime and the vision and plan for what only begins on November 4. We want to hear your ideas on the ways that many different organizations, coming from different points of view and with different focuses, can work together now with determination and creativity to put a stop to the whole Trump/Pence regime, before it becomes too late.
There is an urgent need for this. Paul Krugman, writing in the NY Times on September 11, said that we are now ruled by people who reject “… the scientific idea-the notion that objective assessment of evidence is the way to understand the world. And this willful ignorance is deeply frightening. Indeed, it may end up destroying civilization.”
Trump threatened at the UN to “totally destroy” North Korea, a threat that his whole regime signed off on – a war crime of horrific magnitude. We know of the terror that permeates life now in immigrant communities; of the attacks and threats on Black, Latino, Muslim, Women, LGBTQ, Jewish, and disabled peoples; of the danger to the environment.
Your organization {Congregation, Union, etc.} has spoken out against many of the injustices of this regime. This resistance that your organization and many other groups have waged has been vitally necessary. It has thrown roadblocks in the way of this regime consolidating its authority and rolling out its fascist agenda as quickly as they want. These white, male supremacists – fascists – see this as their last chance to create a country and world made only for them – and it is the righteous resistance of the people that has prevented this so far.
We have countered every attack with protests, petitions, lawsuits, and more to oppose the culture of hate and brutality being forced on us. Yet every day there is a new outrage, a new threat. With every Nuremberg-style rally, every speech, every executive order, every new court appointment, and every crisis Trump and Pence get through, our planet and our people remain under constant attack and continue to lose ground.
History is full of examples in which the worst nightmares became reality because of a failure to act in a way that was commensurate with the danger being posed. The Refuse Fascism Call to Action puts it like this: “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.”
The Trump /Pence Regime has not yet been able to implement their full program. But, they are moving fast on many fronts. Consolidating their grip on power and achieving their full program 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.
Our basic vision is that beginning on November 4, protests begin all across the country and continue in different forms every day and every night — with different focuses and involving people of many different perspectives, but all unified in the demand: The Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
We have thinking on how this can happen and how organizations of different focuses and points of view – religious, civil and legal rights, educational, environmental, political – can struggle together to meet the challenge. We want to hear your thinking on this. We strongly believe that we can and must find the means to unite broadly, creating a groundswell of opposition that can drive out this regime and avert a catastrophe for humanity.
In unity and struggle
[Signature]
[Name]
For Refuse Fascism (city)
PS: We are linking to 3 documents for your reference. [link – or enclose printed copies]
[1] The Call for November 4. The two slogans of this document are what unifies the broad and diverse organization and movement needed.
[2] A short document: Unite All Who Can Be United – Defeat “Divide and Conquer.” Everywhere fascist regimes have come to power they have relied on divisive tactics. We have learned from the lesson of Pastor Martin Niemoeller.
[3] The founding Call to Action of Refuse Fascism revised in February 2017 (after the inauguration).