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21 November For Immediate Release A Quarter Million COVID Deaths: Trump/Pence Out Now!Body-Bag ProtestMONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 12 NOONGeneral Services Administration, 1800 F St NWThe death toll from COVID has reached a quarter million. Trump deliberately deceived the world about the danger of the virus. Bob Woodward got it on tape! This cost tens of thousands of lives. Many of those lost – disproportionately Latinx, Black and Native American – Trump would have gladly killed off anyway. Now, two weeks after decisively losing the election, Trump is refusing to concede, working to overturn the election, and actively obstructing the transition of power. Taking his lead, Emily Murphy, Trump’s appointee to head the previously uncontroversial and little-known Government Services Administration, is blocking the incoming Biden administration’s access to funds, officials, agencies, equipment, and office space. This is setting back the process of developing and distributing a vaccine and costing countless more unnecessary deaths. At noon on Monday, November 23, RefuseFascism.org will deliver body bags to Emily Murphy’s office at the General Services Administration, messages from people whose loved ones have died from the COVID 19 pandemic, and demand: Trump: You Lost. GET THE HELL OUT!STOP Trying to Overturn the Election!STOP Your Murderous COVID Program!STOP Your Dangerous War Moves!STOP Whipping Up MAGA Fascist Mobs!Trump/Pence OUT NOW!Monday’s protest is in conjunction with and will follow Refuse Fascism protests across the country this weekend. “The election is over. Biden won. Trump lost. Now he and his fascist regime need to go,” says Coco Das of the RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board. “Trump, awash in his bitter fascist delusion, has not conceded and is now escalating his illegitimate attempts to steal the election by spreading lies of a fraud, bringing baseless lawsuits, backing demands that Detroit’s votes be thrown out, and now conspiring to force Michigan’s legislature to hand him the state’s votes,” says Das. “This blatant attempt to nullify the votes of Black people as part of his fascist coup cannot stand! If Trump won’t respect the election results and start transferring power to Biden, then we must demand that he and his fascist regime pack their bags and go now.” “All this shows that every day Trump remains in the White House, he’s a threat to the election and to human life during the COVID pandemic. Every move Trump makes to illegitimately hold on to power and overturn the election must be met by our side standing up – in the streets – nonviolently, defiantly with justice and an electoral victory behind us to say: “NO! Trump/Pence OUT NOW!” Das emphasizes. In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! |
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 NATIONWIDE PROTESTSNew York City: 2:00 pm Columbus Circle to deliver body bags to Trump International Hotel Sunday November 22 Chicago: 11:00 am Counter-Protest MAGA Rally Golf Rd & Meacham, Schaumburg IL Monday November 23 Washington DC: 12:00 pm 800 F Street NW – Body Bag Protest at Office of the General Services Administration |
Masthead of Pledge to the People of the World as it appeared in the November 9 issue of The New York Times |
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On Monday, November 9, Refuse Fascism placed a full page ad in the NY Times: A Pledge to the People of the World, In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America! The Trump/Pence Must Go! It was designed by the artist, Shepard Fairey and signed by a range of prominent intellectuals and artists, including Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Lilly Wachowski, Chuck D, Arturo O’Farrill, Jodie Sweetin, Alyssa Milano, Peter Carey, Fat Mike and hundreds more. |
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