Donald Trump and his regime are aggressively moving to end the guarantee of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that there shall be “no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”. Six journalists arrested in Washington D.C. during protests of Trump’s inauguration are facing felony riot charges that carry up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine. Suzanne Nossel, the executive director of PEN America said this week that “Even a few weeks ago, the prospect of large numbers of journalists in America facing criminal charges, fines, and prison terms for doing their jobs would have seemed far-fetched”. As Refuse Fascism states, “Fascism, once in power, essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights.” This attack and the entire fascist onslaught it is part of must be resolutely opposed.
