Center for Constitutional Rights: “We must resist and prevent at all costs a slide into American fascism”
Shortly after Trump’s election, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York City issued this statement: “We send love and solidarity to all those who are hurting and afraid that Donald Trump’s America excludes them. We share the despair of the millions who are in shock that a candidate supported by the KKK has […]
George Takei Speaks Out Against Trump on Nuclear Weapons and Registry for Muslims
Responding to Trump saying he wants to “strengthen and expand” the nuclear capabilities of the U.S., actor George Takei tweeted on Thursday, December 22: “Trump wants to expand our nuclear arsenal. I think of my aunt and baby cousin, found burnt in a ditch in Hiroshima. These weapons must go.” Takei and his family spent […]
Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue Editor: Trump’s “Gaslighting” and the Fight for the Truth
Lauren Duca is an editor for Teen Vogue magazine and has been a contributing reporter/writer for several other magazines including Huffington Post, Vice, New York, and The New Yorker. In a December 10, article published in Teen Vogue titled “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America,” she writes: “Trump won the Presidency by gas light. His rise […]
Journalist Summer Brennan: “I promise to be a siren going off…”
On December 19, Summer Brennan, an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, tweeted: “Trump is a fascist. I promise to be a siren going off about this national disaster until it is averted or stopped. #resist”
Cornel West, Carl Dix, Alice Walker, David Strathairn, 2,000 more issue Call to Action to Prevent Trump/Pence From Taking Power
For Immediate Release December 28, 2016 Interviews Available RefuseFascism.org Contact: Larry Everest 917-553-8972 / 917-407-1286 [email protected] A Call to Action with a single unifying objective: NO! This Fascist Regime Must Be Stopped Before It Starts! has been issued by Cornel West; rapper Vic Mensa; director Joe Dante; writer Alice Walker; poet and musician Saul Williams; […]
New Year’s Eve—a Festival of NO!
For Immediate Release December 27, 2016 Interviews Available RefuseFascism.org Contact: Larry Everest 917-553-8972 / 917-407-1286 [email protected] Demonstrate to STOP the Trump / Pence Regime Before It Starts, New York City and EVERYWHERE! NYC: meet @ 8:00 pm, Columbus Statue at Columbus Circle Organizers are calling for a “Festival of NO!” across the country this New […]
UNWELCOME—Vice President Elect Mike Pence Stop the Trump/Pence Regime Before It Starts!
Dec 29, 2016 Immediate Release When: December 30 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Where: Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren, Chicago Contact: Refuse Fascism Chicago: 312-933-9586 On December 30, Governor Bruce Rauner is hosting a major fund raiser for Vice President-elect Mike Pence. This $10,000 per couple lunch will be met by protestors telling […]
LGBTQAI and HIV/AIDS Voices Against Fascism
Greetings, We are writing to you and your organization as members of the national and greater New York LGBTQIA communities and HIV/AIDS treatment and advocacy communities in order to introduce you to our organization, RefuseFascism.org. We have one goal: to do everything within our power as citizens of the United States of America to ensure […]
Constitutional Law Scholars to Trump: “We feel a responsibility to challenge you in the court of public opinion”
In an open letter to Trump dated December 13, constitutional legal scholars associated with law schools across the U.S. wrote, “Some of your statements and actions during the campaign and since the election cause us great concern about your commitment to our constitutional system.” The open letter gets into some of these issues: First Amendment […]
Patti Smith’s rendition of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” at Nobel Prize ceremony resonates powerfully today
At the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, singer Patti Smith performed a moving tribute to Bob Dylan, the winner of this year’s laureate for literature. She chose to sing one of Dylan’s songs—“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” released in 1963, a time when the civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam War protests were a sign […]