Projecting the names and faces of the fallen onto Oakland’s Grand Lake theater. 15 different pictures with stories told. #SayTheirNames Trump is guilty as hell for these murders and more – and revels in it. #TrumpPenceOutNow
Come out Sept.21 nationwide! pic.twitter.com/YgxAIlHru9

— RefuseFascismSF (@SFRefuseFascism) September 17, 2020

The Call for September 16

Trump accuses protesters of “violence,” brands them “terrorists,” and wants to lock them up for life.

But it is Trump who has continually encouraged police to “take retribution” against protestors (yes, he said that) and, in regard to their treatment of Black and Brown people, has incited police in speech after speech to be tougher, to “not be so nice” and all kinds of other inflammatory stuff. It is Trump supporters who have carried out murder and slaughter.

The fascists hope their violence terrorizes people into compliance with the nightmare they are fighting to lock in place through a second term of the Trump/Pence fascist regime. The opposite must be true.

We will never forget the 11 slaughtered at the Tree of Life Synagogue, the 23 massacred in El Paso by a shooter who targeted Latinos, the numerous Muslims murdered, the escalated police violence and murder of Black and Brown people, the cruel deaths of immigrants at the border and in detention, and more.

We will celebrate and commemorate the at least 15 heroes who gave their lives while standing up for Black lives and for justice generally. Their deaths will not be in vain!That the full number of lives lost is still unknown, is itself an indictment of the normalizing of fascist violence.

Most of all, we will come together to fill their shoes and go even farther, overcoming fear and uncertainty, uniting from many different perspectives, rallying others to join us in mass, sustained, nonviolent protest that does not stop until the Trump/Pence regime has been driven from power and its whole fascist program brought to a halt.