People March in DC, Across the U.S. and Around the World to Demand Action on Climate Change
This article originally appeared on the site Revolution/revcom.us As climate change confronts humanity with the looming danger of global environmental catastrophe, more than 150,000 took part in the April 29 People’s Climate March in Washington, DC. And there were more than 300 “sister marches” across the U.S., from Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and […]
Public Notice from the New York Chapter of Refusefascism.org Regarding May 1st Protests
Certain right wing groups identifying themselves as “patriots” and supporters of Donald Trump have made open threats via social media that they plan to come to May 1st protests In New York today with the intention of attacking protestors they identify as anti-fascist. One such group spoke of their plans as “May Day Slay.” Some of […]
Trump/Pence Super-Predators Speed Up Danger of Climate Change We Need to Drive Out the Fascist Regime… AND We Need a Whole Different World
This article originally appeared on the site Revolution/revcom.us The danger of global environmental disaster due to climate change has become clearer and clearer in recent years. Then came the Trump/Pence regime—and in their first 100 days, they’ve put this rush toward environmental catastrophe into overdrive.
Trump: Leave No Land Protected
April 27 In less than 100 days the truth-despising and climate change-denying Trump/Pence regime has: defunded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Parks Department, refused to appoint a science advisor, vowed to repeal carbon dioxide emission limits on power plants while pledging to do away with fuel economy standards, abolished oversight of how federal […]
Welcome May Day Marchers
Thousands of people, immigrants and others, marched and rallied in cities across the country demanding an end to the Trump regime’s attacks on immigrants, demanding that immigrants be treated as human beings. Refuse Fascism was at many of these marches, bringing its call “No Ban! No Wall! No Deportations! No Fascist USA! 100 Days of […]
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The Handmaid’s Tale in Trump’s America
April 27 I read the book, I watched the movie and yet my eyes welled, my heart skipped a beat during the two minute trailer… “we didn’t wake up until it was too late.” Margaret Atwood’s masterpiece Handmaid’s Tale has become a phenomenon, a rallying cry, and a Hulu series with ever-increasing poignancy 32 years after […]
Chicago and L.A.:
Chicago (report from Refuse Fascism, Chicago) A determined and diverse group gathered to loudly “Never again will we allow another Holocaust to happen to any people!” Carrying signs from Refuse Fascism saying “NO!” in many languages and a banner declaring “From 1933 to 2017, Never Again! Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime!” they lined up in […]
We Must Defend the Lives of People in Our Own Time
Donald W. Shriver, President Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary, Holocaust Remembrance Day, 4/24/17 When you visit the Yadvashem memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem, they give you a pin shaped in the form of the Hebrew word for “remember.” There are two strong reasons for all of us to remember the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust: […]
Our Obligation to Speak Up – This is an Illegitimate Regime
Do Not Let the Fascist Trump/Pence Regime Take Away our Freedom, Our Rights, Our Diversity, Our culture, the Environment and Humanity Itself! Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Professor of English, Creighton University (Professor Fajardo is one of the 195 professors on the rightwing “Professors Watchlist”. Remembering the Holocaust is an act of memory intended to honor the victims […]