We are in a state of emergency. There can be no business as usual when that business is cementing fascist rule.
Los Angeles is under military occupation. ICE/Gestapo is terrorizing and disappearing immigrants. Trump threatens to de-naturalize U.S. citizens. How is this any different from the early days of Hitler?
The lesson of history is that this is the time to act. This is the time for mass refusal and non-compliance with fascist edicts. This is the time for growing non-violent resistance that disrupts the fascist machinery and demands the removal of the fascist regime – before it can bring down the hammer on the right to dissent.
Now is the time to act in a way that is commensurate with the danger humanity faces, building urgently toward non-violent mass struggle of millions that does not relent until this regime is removed from power
There is a way to stop this…from A Call to Conscience, Call to Act.
We call on the decent people who don’t want to live in a fascist America – who are more than half the country – to courageously rise up as one.
Those who have dedicated their lives to service – to teach children, to heal the sick, to conduct life-saving research – refusing to comply with fascist decrees, backed up by all justice-loving people.
Students and young people whose whole future is on the line making schools and campuses centers of resistance and filling the streets.
Women and LGBTQ people who are furious at being enslaved and erased —bringing their defiance and rage into the public square.
People of color and everyone sick to death of white supremacy refusing to go back, bringing the experience and fury of centuries of resistance into this fight.
Artists, writers, clergy, and legal scholars speaking in many voices to say NO! bringing their voices into the struggle.
MANY VOICES AND BODIES DEMANDING: THE TRUMP FASCIST REGIME MUST GO! With this we can and must create a political crisis in which the Trump regime cannot govern and implement their fascist program or even maintain his hold on power.