Andy Zee, spokesperson for Revolution Books, gives a vision of the power of the word “NO!” and how we can move from the hundreds who were gathered in Cooper Union that night and the tens of thousands watching on livestream around the country, to act together and build our resistance in a telescoped period of days and weeks. New Year’s Eve, in particular, must be marked by outdoor protests and candlelight vigils, gatherings of defiance. “No Fascist New Year! We Say NO to Trump and Pence!” From there, waves of decentralized protests must spread across the country, different organizations and communities acting in their own ways but with the unified theme of “No!” The word must appear on walls, on shirts, on social media, on television, in artistic ways and ways that inspire others to act.

Millions and millions know in their gut that Trump and Pence are terrible news. But on Monday night, December 19th, a powerful line up of speakers brought the truth to many tens of thousands that it is far worse than most can yet imagine. But that was not all, the evening was the launch of an audacious new movement, www.RefuseFascism.org, which aims to rapidly transform the deep anguish and outrage, the something and outright terror that is felt by millions and millions in this country, into resistance and defiance and acts of political rebellion and radical art and No! Powerful enough to STOP Trump and Pence BEFORE they start.