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July 26, 2018
Last night some of us went to a rally in NYC called “what would you pack?” where people were asked to pack a suitcase for a loved one if they were being deported, and to bring the one item they would have if they were losing one of their loved ones. There was a family there whose loved one was being deported the very next morning. It was a big family with small children, some of whom were crying. People talked about the terror and fear immigrants are subjected to, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
In the midst of this, we had the Indictments of the crimes of the Trump/Pence regime that document the crimes that the Trump/Pence regime has already done, what they will say they will do and what they have unleashed, on every front including the environment, science, immigrants/refugees, rule of law, and Muslims.
While people had a very visceral reaction to what is being done to immigrants, it was striking that people didn’t really know all of the ways that the Trump/Pence regime was being hammered into place even though many people who thought they knew.
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I would get people to stop by saying, we are doing a social experiment, we want to see what strikes people on these indictments, if there are facts on here that you think know or you don’t know, or that you think people should know.
There were things on the Muslims indictment that happened that people forgot. One person told me that she knew the travel ban had been instituted but when she saw that it was the six majority Muslim countries, she hadn’t realized how sweeping it was. Another person said that they had thought the Supreme court had made positive changes so it was a “less harsh version” of the ban and these indictments challenge the notion.
There were people who were shocked about what they read, including on the immigrants indictment, especially how Trump suggested the 14th amendment that made anyone born in the U.S. — specifically freed slaves — citizens, could be changed so children of immigrants who are born in U.S. could not be citizens and his remark “whoever heard of a system where you put people through trials.”
One person said, yeah but there is no way he could do that. I told him, almost everything Trump has said that he will do and that people said he couldn’t do, he has done. Look at this, did you ever think the Muslim Ban would be instituted? Everyone said he couldn’t do it because it wasn’t constitutional and now it’s the law.
I was bringing out this part of the Refuse Fascism Call to Act:
We must not reassure ourselves that it couldn’t happen here. It is. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” is a 21st century fascist program of Manifest Destiny – “America First” – wrapped in the flag and Mike Pence’s Bible taken literally, with a program of white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia.
These indictments have the potential to change things, transforming people’s spontaneous anger and visceral outrage into a scientific understanding of why what we are dealing with is a fascist program. I talked to people about our plan of organizing millions into the streets to drive the regime out, like they did in South Korea and what we are concretely doing now to organize for this, raising money, spreading this Call to Action at festivals. I asked people what neighborhoods they were in and would they could come out with us to hand out flyers, or hold a sign. Or could they get the call to actions out in their neighborhoods. People took stacks. This is a way that people feel that they can make a difference.
Get these indictments OUT in the world right now, read them yourself and challenge everyone to do the same and then ask the question: how would elections stop such a radical restructuring of society?
And do this as part of organizing for the real plan for stopping this now, preparing for the time to call millions into the streets into non-violent protest that go day after day, night after night, creating such a crisis, that those at the top are forced to respond to our demand: This nightmare must end, the Trump/Pence Regime must Go.