In a piece titled “Forward Ever, Normal Never: Taking Down Donald Trump” in Monthly Review, Susie Day writes:
“People often compare the ascendance of Trump and his cabinet of deplorables to the rise of the Nazis—taking momentary refuge in the fact that 1933 Germany didn’t have the nuclear option. Apropos of Trump’s take on flag burning, one of the first things Hitler did as chancellor was to rescind freedom of speech, assembly, the press. . . Then the […]
Green Day at American Music Awards
November 20: NO TRUMP! NO KKK! NO FASCIST USA! During the live TV broadcast of the American Music Awards on Sunday night, November 20, the punk rock band Green Day let loose with a defiant condemnation of Donald Trump. In the middle of performing “Bang Bang,” from their latest album Revolution Radio, the band, led […]
Cornel West: “Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here”
…In this bleak moment, we must inspire each other driven by a democratic soulcraft of integrity, courage, empathy and a mature sense of history – even as it seems our democracy is slipping away. We must not turn away from the forgotten people of US foreign policy – such as Palestinians under Israeli occupation, Yemen’s […]
“Farewell, America” by author Neal Gabler, November 10
Whatever place we now live in is not the same place it was on Nov. 7. No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they will now look at us differently … With Trump’s election, I think that the ideal of an objective, truthful journalism is dead, never to […]
Guns N’ Roses Invites Mexico Fans Onstage to Destroy Trump Piñata
On November 30, in the middle of a song they were performing at Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, the band Guns N’ Roses cut the music and brought a giant piñata of Donald Trump onstage. According to an online TIME magazine report, Axl Rose, the band’s front man, said, “Let’s bring up some […]
Undocumented in Trump’s America
By Jose Antonio Vargas, November 20 On election night, while making my way through a crowd gathered outside the Fox News headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, a white man wearing a Mets cap patted my back and said through the noise: “Get ready to be deported.” Rattled, I made it inside the green room and waited to […]
Architect Resigns from Association for Pledging to “Play Nice” with Trump
Two days after Trump’s election, Robert Ivy, the CEO and executive vice president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), sent a memorandum to the organization’s members saying, “The AIA and its 89,000 members are committed to working with President-elect Trump to address the issues our country faces, particularly strengthening the nation’s aging infrastructure. … […]
An abortion doctor on Trump’s win: “I fear for my life. I fear for my patients.”
By Warren M. Hern, November 11 As I’ve headed to work in recent days to see abortion patients in my office, I have felt bereft: All the premises of my life, work, education, and future were gone. Something very profound in the meaning of the America I know has been destroyed with the election of Donald […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: “We cannot let justice be denied by waiting. History has shown us over and over what horrors that leads to.”
In a December 1 article for the Washington Post online edition, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar calls for resistance against Trump. Writing from his viewpoint of protecting this country’s “most sacred values,” Abdul-Jabbar criticizes others and their “hide-beneath-the-bed tactic”—like Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, who says “we should take a look-and-see approach” and Black Entertainment […]
Center for Biological Diversity: “Lash Out at the Darkness and Fight Like Hell”
In the November 10 issue of their online newsletter “Endangered Earth,” the Center for Biological Diversity included a statement saying, “We’re only thinking about one thing right now: stopping Donald Trump from destroying the planet.” The statement goes on to say, “If President Trump carries out the disastrous promises he made while campaigning, the Environmental […]