October 10, 2019 For immediate release
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As Impeachment Fight Sharpens, Refuse Fascism Initiates Call: Into the Streets #TrumpPenceOutNow
In video public service announcements released today Cornel West, Carl Dix, Father Luis Barrios, and Rev. Frank Wulf join the Call for National #OutNow Protests Demanding: The Trump/Pence Fascist Regime Must Go – NOW!
Beginning in New York City and Los Angeles on Saturday October 19; spreading NATIONWIDE Saturday, October 26 and continuing…November 2, November 9 and November 16… until the Trump/Pence Regime is Removed from Power.
Modeling themselves on protests that drove regimes from power in Puerto Rico, South Korea and other places around the world, their Call to Action states: “Puerto Rico and Hong Kong show us how: #TrumpPenceOutNOW!”
Cornel West
Carl Dix
Father Luis Barrios
Rev. Frank Wulf
Interviews available
Sustained, non-violent protests begin Saturday October 19 in:
- Los Angeles: 12:00 pm Santa Monica Pier
New York City: 5:00 pm Union Square
And spread nationwide on Saturday October 26:
- Ann Arbor: 12:00 pm Kerrytown Farmers Market 315 Detroit
Atlanta: 2:00 pm Piedmont Park 10th Street near Monroe Dr.
Boston: 12:00 pm Copley Square
Cleveland: 1:00 pm Market Square West 25th St & Lorain Avenue
Chicago: 1:00 pm Millennium Park
Houston: 3:00 pm Galleria
Philadelphia: 2:00 pm Love Park
San Francisco: 1:00 pm 24th & Mission
Seattle: 6:00 pm University District, University Way NE & NE Campus Parkway
JOIN US and DEMAND: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO – NOW!
Protest every week.
Don’t Stop Until The Trump/Pence Regime is Removed from Power.
It BEGINS Saturday, October 19
NYC (Union Square)
LA (Santa Monica Pier)
Then it spreads NATIONWIDE Saturday, October 26
and continues and spreads on
November 2, November 9 and November 16…
until the Trump/Pence Regime is Removed from Power.
The Trump/Pence Regime poses a catastrophic danger to humanity. Concentration Camps on the border… environmental devastation accelerated… the danger of war, even nuclear, threatened… white supremacy rules… fascist mobs and racist mass murderers… truth and science erased… the right to abortion near gone… the rule of law and democratic and civil rights are stripped away… THIS IS FASCISM UNFOLDING.
Now, impeachment has begun. A momentous move, in which sharp political battle lines are drawn with high stakes. Trump himself threatens charges of treason and even invokes civil war. A virulent fascist movement sees their future bound up with the whole Trump/Pence regime. Where this ends up depends on us.
This is a moment when we – people of many different views and experience – must act together in mass, sustained, non-violent nationwide protests that continue until the Trump/Pence regime is removed from power. We begin with protests in NYC and LA on October 19 that announce four more consecutive Saturdays of protests in cities and towns across the country that gather more people and momentum so that in the weeks and months that follow, the movement grows to tens and hundreds of thousands and millions. What unifies all the diverse streams of people that need to pour into the streets is the single demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go—Now!
For 3 years the Democratic Party leadership facilitated the Trump/Pence regime, even voting funds for border security when children were being separated from parents. Now, they want to restrict impeachment only to national security and Trump’s violation of democratic norms to try to enlist Ukraine to undermine U.S. elections. They have said they will not impeach on the whole array of fascist outrages. Thus far, they are not going after the whole fascist regime. Their approach would legitimate the whole Trump/Pence fascist program, leaving the cancer in place to grow more dangerously, especially if his Christo-fascist VP Pence is then allowed to take the presidency. Moreover, Trump has threatened that he may not leave office.
To “leave things to the Democrats” or wait til 2020 would be extremely dangerous. The only way to stop Trump and Pence and advance every struggle for justice is by the power of the people in the streets.
The world as we have known it is being torn asunder. We must cast off fear and passivity, and not allow our differences to stand in the way of rising together in the unprecedented, unrelenting non-violent mass #OUTNOW! protests to drive out the Trump/Pence regime.
We must seize on the impeachment crisis now erupting, taking history into our own hands and turning dread for the future into a force for hope!
Puerto Rico and Hong Kong show us how:
#TrumpPenceOutNOW!
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America