WE DEMAND:
Drop The Charges Against Members of
Refuse Fascism and Revolution Club!
Thursday, Feb 28, 2019 • 6:15 pm Riverside Public Library Auditorium 3581 Mission Inn Avenue
LA11 defendants will be featured speakers at this event!
The Los Angeles City Attorney has criminally charged 11 members of Refuse Fascism for stepping forward to oppose the Trump/Pence regime in acts of conscience. The charges stem from significant public events:
- Two actions on the 101 Freeway (unfurling banners demanding that the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go);
- A series of protest actions at UCLA, including a controversial public challenge to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at
These unjust and outrageous criminal charges by the LA City Attorney represent an effort by the state to silence dissent against the Trump/Pence regime.
The Trump/Pence regime is tearing up protected civil and legal rights. In the face of open terror and violence unleashed by this regime (including the violent targeting of political demonstrations as in Charlottesville), these protests were not just needed, they were right. They include meaningful forms of nonviolent civil disobedience and protected speech.
Police reports in these cases reveal the LAPD’s “Major Crimes/Anti-Terrorism Division” involvement, a department which has a history of targeting progressive and radical social movements.
All this is taking place at a time in which the legal rights to political protest and speech are being rapidly foreclosed by the Trump/Pence regime which has unleashed a wave of new state laws, gutting basic civil liberties and a movement of storm troopers carrying out mob violence, and violent threats, in order to intimidate and silence people.
Defendants with multiple charges face fines and penalties of up to 5 years jail time and all defendants could be locked in jail if convicted, while the true criminals in Washington remain free to continue their dangerous and deadly policies of racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and planetary destruction.