4 February 2020 For Immediate Release
Contact: Amina Gonzales 646-851-6785
Larry Everest 202-556-3906
RefuseFascism.org
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Interviews available
Protest: No Acquittal – Trump/Pence Out Now!
Tuesday, Feb 4, 5:00 pm, east side of U.S. Capitol – Protest & People’s State of the Union
Wednesday, Feb 5, 4:00 pm, east side of U.S. Capitol – Protest Senate vote to acquit
Nationwide Actions Washington DC, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle
Senate Republicans have blocked witnesses and gutted the rule of law, clearing the way to acquit Trump on February 5. This Cannot Go Down Unopposed!
Urgently Needed: People in the streets Tuesday and Wednesday refusing to accept this.
“Trump’s acquittal in a ‘trial’ with no witnesses, no evidence, will be a crime on top of a crime, and his fascist regime will barrel ahead with disastrous consequences for humanity!” says Carl Dix of RefuseFascism.org.
“In the sham Senate impeachment trial, the message from Republicans and Trump’s defense team is clear: the normal channels, including the process of impeachment, cannot rein in a president and regime that is slashing through those norms and emerging victorious from every crisis,” Dix says. “Without a third force, the people in the streets in sustained, non-violent mass protest, a fascist regime will barrel ahead to rule with even more brute force and terror.”
“Fascism has been unfolding — concentration camps on the border, environmental devastation accelerated, war, even nuclear war, threatened, white supremacy openly proclaimed, fascist mobs whipped up, truth and science erased, the right to abortion near gone, the rule of law and democratic and civil rights stripped away,” Dix continues.
“Now the Muslim Ban has been expanded to include six more countries. This signals that all this and more — Trump’s fascist program — will be accelerated and locked in if he’s acquitted in a sham trial without massive resistance from the people.”
“All over the world people have shown us that hated regimes can be forced out through mass sustained, non-violent protest,” Dix states. “It’s time to get serious and get organized to build the kind of determined struggle from below that refuses to stop until the whole fascist Trump/Pence regime is removed from power.”
“But what people do—what YOU do—in the next few days will matter greatly to the future,” Dix emphasizes. “It will make a huge difference whether people in their masses continue to sit passively, either absorbing themselves in the elections as a substitute for action or sit on their couches despairing for the future, or whether there is serious protest in the streets saying NO! and declaring determination to fight on, truly resist, and ultimately drive this regime out. It will raise a standard and challenge the tens of millions who do hate this regime but as yet do nothing, and it will give hope to those here and around the world who suffer its grave attacks and terrible injustices.”
EVERY DAY THAT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME REMAINS IN POWER THREATENS THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE PLANET.
