11 November 2019 for immediate release
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TODAY Protest Trump at NYC Veterans Day Parade
Humanity First, Not America First! Trump/Pence #OUTNOW!
Gather 10:00 am, Union Square, NW Corner Broadway & 17th
On Monday, November 11, Trump is speaking at the Veterans Day Parade. Refuse Fascism and the #OUTNOW! movement will be there, opposing Trump and his American chauvinism and declaring “Humanity First, Not America First!”
“Trump is coming to this parade to rally veterans to be a backbone force for America First militarism, to glorify past unjust wars in order to whip people up to support the U.S. empire committing even more horrendous war crimes and crimes against humanity in the future. That’s why we’re bringing ‘Trump/Pence Out Now!’ to the parade,” says Carl Dix, a soldier who refused to go fight in Vietnam and kill people who were fighting for their liberation, and he spent two years in Leavenworth prison for that courageous act in the interests of humanity.
Dix is a co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org and a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. He was widely quoted at Friday’s protest in Atlanta against Trump’s launch of #BlackVoicesforTrump, which he said was like “Jews for Hitler.” See video below, Atlanta Journal Constitution and Associated Press.
Joe Urgo will also speak. Urgo went to Vietnam a gung-ho soldier and America First patriot and returned to the U.S. as an opponent of the war. He became a leader in Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) and is currently a member of the NY chapter of Vets for Peace.
Urgo says, “After four of my fellow soldiers and friends died in [the Tet Offensive], my whole world view fell apart because I began to realize that nothing I had been taught or believed about the nature of U.S. reasons for being in Vietnam were true. I knew nothing about the Vietnamese people, culture, and history. We called the people all sorts of racist terms and nowhere did they count as human beings. I spent my next 11 months coming to oppose the war, to see the humanity of the Vietnamese people and beginning to oppose this lie that Americans are the best people in the world.”
Coming Up:
Sat Nov 16 Nationwide–Trump/Pence Most Go #OutNow!
1:00 pm Union Square @14th Street
2:00 pm Harlem State Office Bldg 125th & Adam Clayton Powell
“Puerto Rico, Hong Kong show us how, Trump and Pence Out Now!”
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America
RefuseFascism.org is a movement of people coming 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 through non-violent protests that grow every day until our demand is met. This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
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