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A New Presence in Opposition to Trump/Pence

The principal organizer of the “Handmaid’s Tale Brigade” of 100 women who protested Mike Pence in Philadelphia, Samantha Goldman, was published today in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Why I helped organize the ‘Handmaids’ protest of Mike Pence.

Goldman says the protest was organized in one week under the slogan “this Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must GO!” The protest received national media coverage including The Hollywood Reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press.

She is available for interviews at 267-603-7150 @SamanthaGoldm19

Excerpts of the piece:

As soon as a friend and I put out the word that we were recruiting 100 women to protest Mike Pence’s visit by donning Handmaid’s Tale outfits, the red cloaks worn in a dystopian world where women are reduced to breeders, people began commenting about the symbolic meaning of these outfits. But to me, they didn’t feel symbolic at all. Sure, we are not yet in a real-life Handmaid’s Tale … but, isn’t the whole point of the book and the series to show how such a nightmare develops, to warn us to act before it becomes too late? As Atwood wrote in the book, “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it…”

…In less than two weeks, an outpouring of women stepped forward to don the cloaks, donate toward costumes, make costumes, and recruit their sisters. As 100 women in red cloaks and white bonnets joined me in assembling in front of the Union League on Monday, Mike Pence was declaring: there is “only one way to sum up a year and a half of action, a year and a half of results, a year and a half of promises made and promises kept.” His words are chilling in their truth. But most chilling is Pence’s next statement: “And we are just getting started.”

The women who Samantha Goldman organized came from diverse perspectives and life experiences, most having never met each other before that day. They broke their silence, helping each other de-cloak and raised our fist in a pledge to “stand together with conviction and courage, overcoming fear and uncertainty, to struggle with all we’ve got to demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go.” As Pence declared that this regime “is just getting started,” they vowed the same is true for them.

Samantha Goldman is available for interview on the dangerous parallels she sees between the Trump/Pence regime and the Handmaid’s Tale story – and the urgent need for determined protest that RefuseFascism.org is organizing which grows and does not stop until the whole Trump/Pence Regime has been driven from power.