23 October – For Immediate Release
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Dramatization & Photo Opportunity

Yesterday: Handmaids arrested doing civil disobedience in Wash, DC
([WATCH HERE](https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1319268446828462080)).

Every day Refuse Fascism Handmaids have stood outside Congress, calling on people to not let the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett stand, a Christian fascist who will use the power of the court to enforce their views of biblical law on the bodies of women and LGBT people.

Even more dangerous, Amy Coney Barrett, like Trump, has refused to commit to the peaceful transfer of power – an unacceptable power grab within a rolling fascist coup – with the theft of an election heading to a showdown on November 3rd. This is an illegitimate ramrodding of an appointment for the immediate purpose of throwing the election to Trump should he lose. This is an appointment that will lock into place a fascist majority on the Supreme Court, which will be catastrophic!

Trump is already stealing the election. WE NEED TO VOTE, BUT TRUMP WILL NOT BE STOPPED JUST BY VOTING! Mass, nonviolent, sustained protest can.

Friday October 23rd, 3pm – The Grove, 3rd & Fairfax. Join the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett as she presides over a Witch Trial.

A procession of Handmaids – visitors from a future that millions dread but that is about to become the law. A future not fictional or far off but real and immediate. A depiction of what this will mean for people now and the catastrophe this will mean for the future of humanity – If we do not stop it.

“We face a rolling coup with an appointment of a theocratic Christian version of the Taliban being ramrodded through for the immediate purpose of throwing the most momentous election since 1860 to a Fascist Donald Trump,” says Chantelle Hershberger of Refuse Fascism, “A fascist coup already under way.”

Refuse Fascism, the hosts of this dramatization, are not waiting for Election Day but mobilizing now for mass, sustained, nonviolent protest — in the streets everyday through the election until Trump and Pence are OUT!