Thousands Protest Trump in Phoenix
Thousands of people gathered outside the Phoenix Convention Center to protest Donald Trump’s rally were tear gassed by Phoenix police. News reports said that police helicopters circled the protest while heavily armed police roamed the streets, telling protesters they would be arrested for being at an “unlawful assembly”.
Inside the Left’s Plans to Occupy Trump
This article originally appeared on the site Politico by Taylor Gee One week after Charlottesville, “the Resistance” is planning its next move. Members of a group calling itself “Refuse Fascism” met in five cities around the country on Saturday with the intent to plan and organize nationwide demonstrations later this year. Their goal, according to […]
Syria: 170 Civilians Killed By U.S.-Led Bombings Last Week
This article originally appeared on the site Common Dreams As President Donald Trump expands the war in Afghanistan, which Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday is partly inspired by “successful” tactics used in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS), Reuters reports that in the past week alone, more than 170 civilians were killed […]
A Serious and Inspiring First Step Towards November 4 – The Day it Begins
ON NOVEMBER 4, 2017 Take To The Streets And Public Squares in cities and towns across the country continuing day after day and night after night—not stopping—until our DEMAND is met: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! On August 19th, 450 […]
Why the Fascist Character of This Regime Makes It Possible – and Necessary – to Mobilize Millions to Drive It From Power
Refuse Fascism Regional Conferences, August 19, 2017, Presentation 2: WHY The first speech you just heard laid out what we are here to do – what it will look like to drive out the Trump/Pence Fascist Regime. I am going to talk about WHY this is necessary. Why we are right to say that the […]
November 4th, We Begin: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must GO!
Refuse Fascism Regional Conferences, August 19, 2017, Presentation 1: What Are We Calling For? Good Evening. Here now the news for Friday night November 17th 2017: Our top story tonight remains the continuing protests and occupations now taking place in over a dozen cities and on more than 20 campuses nationwide. Protesters vow they will […]
Boston and Across the Country: Tens of Thousands March Against White Supremacy, Neo-Nazis, and Trump
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in Boston to protest and confront a rally of a collection of “alt-right” fascists and neo-Nazis held under the banner of a “Free Speech Rally.” This massive protest, coming a week after fascists and KKK white supremacists ran amok and murdered Heather Heyer in […]
Observations from Boston… and Looking Ahead to November 4
This report was originally on the site Revolution/revcom.us. Overall this was a very good day and an important and positive development that can and should set a bar for the rest of the country, including what people do in response to the fascists getting a permit for their “Patriot Prayer” mobilization in San Francisco on […]
The Resistance Now: after Charlottesville, anger and action
This article first appeared on the Guardian UK, August 18, 2017 More than a thousand people gathered outside Trump Tower to protest against the president’s homecoming on Monday night. It was a big show of animosity towards the president after he blamed “many sides” for the Charlottesville violence, before eventually condemning white supremacists on Monday. (Little did we […]
The Trump/Pence Regime on Civil Liberties
The Trump/Pence government has been step by step criminalizing dissent and bludgeoning the truth with worse to come. Stripping away basic rights and the rule of law is at the core of fascism. What they have done Over 230 protesters arrested at Trump’s inauguration were charged with multiple felonies, including federal riot charges, and 230 […]