To quote the racetrack announcer's start-up line at the Indy 500: "Gentlemen (and women) start your engines." The response so far isn't remotely commensurate to the menace. This MUST change. The audacity and confidence and organization and coordination and momentum gaps between what the fascists are doing and what the decent people -- most of the country --- are doing is horrifying. This can't go on. It doesn't have to. This not only must change --- it CAN change. There is a group working to provide leadership to overcome these terrible deficits: Refuse Fascism. It can't remotely do this alone, of course. We need buy in and collaboration from others across society -- collaboration with many who won't agree with RF leaders on various matters (e.g. capitalism as a viable mode of material production, the Democrats as a legitimate voice of mass needs) but who understand the urgent need to remove the Trump fascist regime before it's too late. All who hate what this regime is doing to everything we hold dear are invited and needed for this urgently required intervention!
We in Seattle are launching this big effort to get all the decent people considering being a part of the masses converging on DC to make fascism's functions grinding to a halt. I 'm unable to go but am enabling as many others to get there as I can.
Absolutely. They're coming to Chicago; we need mass daily protests, a general strike, targeted boycotts of all acquiescing businesses and institutions. When you're in the street, it is ESSENTIAL to remain nonviolent; it's ok to engage DHS/ICE/FBI/NG/regular military troops in conversation, even telling them what they're doing is illegal and shameful, but do NOT swear or call them names and do NOT engage in violent acts- they're looking for pretext to legitimize what they're doing! Trump doesn't NEED any, but he will use any for his own purposes. Mass action but nonviolent.
To quote the racetrack announcer's start-up line at the Indy 500: "Gentlemen (and women) start your engines." The response so far isn't remotely commensurate to the menace. This MUST change. The audacity and confidence and organization and coordination and momentum gaps between what the fascists are doing and what the decent people -- most of the country --- are doing is horrifying. This can't go on. It doesn't have to. This not only must change --- it CAN change. There is a group working to provide leadership to overcome these terrible deficits: Refuse Fascism. It can't remotely do this alone, of course. We need buy in and collaboration from others across society -- collaboration with many who won't agree with RF leaders on various matters (e.g. capitalism as a viable mode of material production, the Democrats as a legitimate voice of mass needs) but who understand the urgent need to remove the Trump fascist regime before it's too late. All who hate what this regime is doing to everything we hold dear are invited and needed for this urgently required intervention!
We in Seattle are launching this big effort to get all the decent people considering being a part of the masses converging on DC to make fascism's functions grinding to a halt. I 'm unable to go but am enabling as many others to get there as I can.
Absolutely. They're coming to Chicago; we need mass daily protests, a general strike, targeted boycotts of all acquiescing businesses and institutions. When you're in the street, it is ESSENTIAL to remain nonviolent; it's ok to engage DHS/ICE/FBI/NG/regular military troops in conversation, even telling them what they're doing is illegal and shameful, but do NOT swear or call them names and do NOT engage in violent acts- they're looking for pretext to legitimize what they're doing! Trump doesn't NEED any, but he will use any for his own purposes. Mass action but nonviolent.