We received this from someone doing outreach in Philadelphia to invite people to join RefuseFascism.org to at one of the rallies to Stop Kavanaugh:
A two-person crew did outreach at a busy central intersection during lunch hour traffic. The indictment panels continue to be a great resource. We set up the one on Crimes Against Humanity. It helped give us a larger presence and show we were on a mission and serious about this. The two organizers just bounced back and forth with agitation about Kavanaugh’s nomination and the implications of this on various levels.
Here are some ways people responded:
An organizer was agitating about the attacks on Black & Brown people’s right to vote. A middle-aged Black woman took a flier and asked if the speaker was white or Spanish. She said she had heard that there were some white people who were against white supremacy and it was good to see us out here speaking out.
Another middle-aged homeless man was interested in the indictment panel. He said that Trump was going to go down soon, that he had too much dirt on him and people around him were going down. I pointed back to Kavanaugh’s position on executive authority and how it would cement the Trump/Pence regime as “above the law”. He took a stack of fliers and said he would pass them around at churches and other places he had to go that day, and we would see him at the rally to stop Kavanaugh.
Two young Black college students took note of the indictment. They were both very vocally upset about the recent US-backed bombing in Yemen and we had a discussion about doing this for all humanity. They said Trump had a campaign rally at their school (West Chester University) before his election, and they were really shocked at the support he got from students. They took extra fliers to pass out at school and expressed being open to the idea of organizing something there.
One woman who works with an unemployment empowerment NGO project. She stressed the need of all groups to come together to get out the vote. I challenged that this confirmation isn’t being stopped without thousands in the streets very soon, and we talked about the regime’s assault on the poor. She took some fliers to pass around at a meeting she had to go to and elsewhere.
We should follow up with these contacts, and they were signed up to get involved. Before we packed up, we also made sure to snap a picture and get it on social media in real time to help with the overall countrywide mobilization.
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