Guest Editorial, Scott Gilbert | I re-read the essay titled, “It Doesn’t Matter How Much You Hate Donald Trump. What Matters Is How Much You’ve Accepted Him.” What most challenged me in this essay was, “…what has been the cost of your acceptance?” This has been banging around in my head, firing synapses I did not even know… Read More
Rev. Michael Woolf: our moral and ethical compasses demand Trump’s removal
Rev. Michael Woolf, Senior Minister, Lake Street Church of Evanston calls on people of faith at Saturday’s Chicago protest: As I have watched impeachment hearings this week, I have been struck by the fact that we are endlessly focused on whether a United States president practiced too forcefully the imperialist policies of domination that have been… Read More
It Doesn’t Matter How Much You Hate Donald Trump, What Matters Is How Much You’ve Accepted Him
By Coco Das For hours, joyously and with determination, we’d been out in the cold dancing, chanting, shouting, and marching to say enough is enough, TrumpPence #OutNow. After dark, en masse, we entered the subway at Herald Square and squeezed into a subway car to to go uptown to Trump Tower, where we’d meet up… Read More
Sat 11/16: 5 Saturdays Launch of #OUTNOW! Concludes: 500 people protest nationwide in more than a dozen cities
Sights and sounds from November 16 – 5th of 5 Saturdays of Launching #OUTNOW Updated media 11/20/2019 “Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late” A speech by Andy Zee, co-initiator of Refuse Fascism Nice video:) To everyone who’s been watching the #OutNow protests for the last 5 weeks, now’s the time… Read More
Mass Meetings on Driving the Trump-Pence Regime #OUTNOW!
Making History Is NOT A Spectator Sport… You Are Needed To Help Drive Out A Fascist Regime Mass Meetings on Driving the Trump-Pence Regime #OUTNOW! Sunday November 24 Times & Places Espanol The Trump/Pence Regime poses a catastrophic danger to humanity. Concentration Camps on the border… environmental devastation accelerated… the danger of war, even nuclear,… Read More
Refuse Fascism leads a defiant protest against fascist Trump Jr. speaking at UCLA
November 12, 2019 | Reposted from revcom.us Donald Trump Jr. is on a book tour with Turning Point USA to build a fascist student movement on campuses and to play point man for the fascist regime in power. Over 120 people came out to reject and protest Donald Jr. and the universities’ role in legitimizing… Read More
November 12 Message to Chapter and Organizers
Hello chapters & organizers: November 12, 2019 [1] All Out for November 16 protests to demand: Trump/Pence #OUTNOW! It is critical that we push, push, push to make a leap in numbers and impact for this final week of our 5-week launch of the #OUTNOW Movement. We have begun something of tremendous importance for the… Read More
Three Days in DC, Taking the Fight to Stop Fascism to the Nation’s Capitol
From an activist in RefuseFascism.org: I’m writing this on the bus ride, coming back from a whirlwind of activities in Washington DC. When I arrived on Thursday night, I couldn’t help but hear the ominous theme song from House of Cards as I thought about the fact that fascists are now in control of the… Read More
November 9: In the Streets, Calling on People to JOIN US November 16
Up to and on November 9, Refuse Fascism was in the streets, calling on people: organize friends, your group, your cause to come out on 11/16, to show people in this country and the world: we will not adjust to the injustice and crimes of Trump & Pence. We will come out again and again… Read More
On the anniversary of Kristallnacht: We can’t say we don’t know
By Coco Das Today is the anniversary of Kristallnacht. On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi paramilitary forces AND civilians terrorized Jewish people… ransacking homes and businesses, destroying synagogues, and rounding up 30,000 Jewish men for concentration camps. And after it was over, the Jewish community was fined for the damage. At what point should… Read More