Steve Kerr speaks out against Donald Trump’s executive order and travel ban
Because of his unique, worldly background and increased willingness to speak up about social issues, Warriors coach Steve Kerr has become a sought-after voice in this polarizing political climate. The most recent controversy: President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning travel into the United States for refugees from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and […]
Statement by CUNY Doctoral Student Denied Entry into U.S. “This is Islamophobia, racism, fascism”
The following is from a statement by a woman on the faculty of, and a student at, the City University of New York (CUNY). According to the faculty union at CUNY, she was denied entry into the U.S. as a result of Trump’s executive order. She was traveling back to the U.S. from Iran, where […]
Bruce Springsteen Condemns Muslim Ban
January 30: Bruce Springsteen Supports Airport Protests, Condemns Muslim Ban At a concert in Australia, Bruce Springsteen said: “Tonight, we want to add our voices to the thousands of Americans who are protesting at airports around our country the Muslim ban and the detention of foreign nationals and refugees,” Springsteen said. “America is a nation […]
January 29: Spreading Protests Against Trump’s Muslim Ban
Scenes from around the country: [huge_it_slider id=”2″] Tens of thousands of people flooded Battery Park in downtown Manhattan, New York City, before marching north to Foley Square. Boston, 20,000 protesters jammed into Copley Square to protest President Trump’s actions. Washington, D.C., thousands rallied in Lafayette Square, across from the White House. Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, 500 […]
January 29: A “call to arms…. with soul” from the the cast of Stranger Things at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
January 29: From the the cast of Stranger Things at the Screen Actors Guild Awards: “[W]e 1983 midwesterners will repel bullies. We will shelter freaks and outcasts, those who have no home. We will get past the lies. We will hunt monsters. And when we are at a loss amidst the hypocrisy and casual violence […]
New Threats and Thuggery in the Trump Regime’s War on Truth
In just nine days, the Trump regime has pumped out lie after lie. Trump demonizes all Muslims, devoid of evidence. He promotes the most outrageous lies about the cause and nature of the global refugee crisis. Trump dehumanizes Black people and Mexicans. He insists, against all facts, that the turnout for his inauguration was under-reported. […]
ACADEMICS AGAINST IMMIGRATION EXECUTIVE ORDER
Thousands of academics have signed a letter of protest against Trump’s Executive Order mandating a 90-day suspension of visas and other immigration benefits to all nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia. The letter says in part: The people whose status in the United States would be reconsidered under this EO are our students, friends, […]
Protests at airports where Muslims are being detained under Trump’s fascist ban
January 28: Protests at airports and other places where Muslims are being detained under Trump’s fascist ban on refugees and immigrants. Join them! Take all the refusefascism material you can find or reproduce – the NO! stickers, the posters, etc. Protests in progress at NYC/JFK; Dulles; LAX; Atlanta; BOS; SFO; O’Hare; Philly; Detroit; Denver; Newark; […]
Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, on Trump Leaving Jews out of Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27: After Donald Trump issued a statement on Holocaust Memorial Day that had no mention of Jews (or LGBT people, Roma people, handicapped people, and others murdered by the Nazis), Steven Goldstein, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, said: “On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, you forget the Jews, and later today you plan […]
Jewish Voices for Peace on Trump’s Anti-Muslim, Anti-Refugee Order: “We pledge to resist in every way that we can”
On January 25, Jewish Voices for Peace released the following statement in anticipation of Trump’s issuing of an executive order the next day targeting refugees and immigrants from mainly Muslim countries: As the Trump administration follows through on the some of most harmful and alarming promises of his campaign, we will follow through on ours: […]