Read, Sign & Distribute The New Updated Refuse Fascism Call to Action:
In the Name of Humanity,
We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!
Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime!
The Trump/Pence Regime is a Fascist Regime. Not insult or exaggeration, this is what it is.
For the future of humanity and the planet, we, the people, must drive this regime out.
Donald Trump and Mike Pence have assembled a vicious cabal that has put forth positions and begun initiatives which demonstrate that they fully intend to shred political and social norms with catastrophic consequence. Because Trump has his finger on the nuclear trigger, the Trump/Pence regime is more dangerous to the world than even Hitler.
Fascism has direction and momentum. Dissent is piece by piece criminalized. The truth is bludgeoned. Group after group is demonized and targeted along a trajectory that leads to real horrors. All of this has already begun under the Trump Regime. History has shown that fascism must be stopped before it becomes too late.
Millions of people, outraged by this regime, took to the streets delivering a stinging rebuke to Trump the day after the inauguration. Protest and resistance continues against the many attacks on the people by the Trump/Pence administration. This must grow broader, deeper, and more determined. This resistance is righteous and necessary, but it is not sufficient. We must recognize that the character of fascism is that it can absorb separate acts of resistance while continually throwing the opposition off balance by rapidly moving its agenda forward. The Trump/Pence regime will repeatedly launch new highly repressive measures, eventually clamping down on all resistance and remaking the law … IF THEY ARE NOT DRIVEN FROM POWER.
Announcing National Tour:
NO! In the Name of Humanity – We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America
Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime National Tour
Setting Out February 25th
RefuseFascism.org is organizing people across the country to rise to the challenge of driving from office the fascist Trump/Pence regime, before it is too late. A key part of RefuseFascism’s plan is the Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime National Tour. Organizers will set out from NYC in a van to go to the South heading to Texas – areas where the two futures for the country and world are starkly contested.
Go Fund Me Campaign for Tour Tour send off report
Fascism in America, 2017 …
What Is Fascism?
Trump: Attacking Trans Rights, Advancing the Christian Fascist Agenda
February 22 The Trump/Pence regime today announced that it is ending federal instructions that allowed the right of transgender students to use bathrooms based on the gender with which they identify. This is a significant, and very dangerous, victory for the Christian Fascists who are a large component of Trump’s fascist cabal. As many as 150,000 children and youths will be impacted by this bigoted, heartless decision. Further, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the longtime white supremacist who is Trump’s Attorney General, evoked the racist banner of “states’ rights” to justify the ruling. Rachel Tiven, chief executive of Lambda Legal, an organization which advocates for LGBT people, said “We all know that Donald Trump is a bully, but his attack on transgender children today is a new low”. It is also part of an entire fascist package. Trump’s regime must be ousted by a determined fight waged by millions of people.
Trump Aims Massive Repression at Immigrants – This Fascist Regime Must be Driven From Power
February 21 Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released directives that pave the way for deporting potentially millions of people.
Trump’s policies expand the number of people prioritized for deportation enormously. Any immigrant convicted or suspected of any minor “crime” will now be considered an “enforcement priority”. Anyone law enforcement determines to be a “risk to public safety” can be hauled in and deported. Trump’s plan empowers Immigration Customs and Control with “expedited removal”: any arrested immigrant who has been in the country two years or less can be deported without any pretense of legal procedure. Perhaps the most sadistic elements of Trump’s plan: parents who are determined to have paid to bring their children across the border so the family can be together will be subject to prosecution. And many of those children will be subject to deportation. About 11 million people are potentially in the crosshairs of these hateful measures.
A border fully “weaponized”. Terrified children separated from their families by armed police. Checkpoints where people are dragged away because of their accent, their skin color, the kind of clothes they wear. Pre-dawn blockades of immigrant communities. These nightmare proposals represent another lurch toward the fascist future of Trumpworld. It is not a world anyone should accept. This attack must be met with massive opposition. It must be defeated. This regime must be ousted.
Trump: The Rise of Fascism?
A video by Esteban Urayya
D.H.S. Draft Memo: Use 100,000 National Guard Troops to Arrest, Deport Immigrants
February 19 On Friday the Associated Press (A.P.) reported the draft of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal to use up to 100,000 National Guard troops in 11 states as immigration agents in rounding up and deporting untold thousands of immigrants. The report was issued by the office of John Kelly, DHS director, and stated it was intended to implement Trump’s executive order on “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvement”. Spokespeople for the Trump/Pence regime first denied the A.P. story. Then they claimed it was an early draft. They gave no explanation for why the proposal had supposedly been rejected for now. No regime official ruled out the future use of the National Guard to round up immigrants.
Millions of people in the crosshairs of midnight raids; deportations that tear apart families; checkpoints staffed by armed military personnel popping up in barrios of cities and towns in the Southwest; soldiers boarding busses and trains to check for papers, and providing immediate punishment to those who don’t provide. This is part of the nightmare of the fascist America Trump is trying to consolidate. It is utterly unacceptable. For the future of humanity, we, the people, must drive this regime out.
Trump: Attacking Trans Rights, Advancing the Christian Fascist Agenda
February 22 The Trump/Pence regime today announced that it is ending federal instructions that allowed the right of transgender students to use bathrooms based on the gender with which they identify. This is a significant, and very dangerous, victory for the Christian Fascists who are a large component of Trump’s fascist cabal. As many as 150,000 children and youths will be impacted by this bigoted, heartless decision. Further, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the longtime white supremacist who is Trump’s Attorney General, evoked the racist banner of “states’ rights” to justify the ruling. Rachel Tiven, chief executive of Lambda Legal, an organization which advocates for LGBT people, said “We all know that Donald Trump is a bully, but his attack on transgender children today is a new low”. It is also part of an entire fascist package. Trump’s regime must be ousted by a determined fight waged by millions of people.
Trump Aims Massive Repression at Immigrants – This Fascist Regime Must be Driven From Power
February 21 Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released directives that pave the way for deporting potentially millions of people.
Trump’s policies expand the number of people prioritized for deportation enormously. Any immigrant convicted or suspected of any minor “crime” will now be considered an “enforcement priority”. Anyone law enforcement determines to be a “risk to public safety” can be hauled in and deported. Trump’s plan empowers Immigration Customs and Control with “expedited removal”: any arrested immigrant who has been in the country two years or less can be deported without any pretense of legal procedure. Perhaps the most sadistic elements of Trump’s plan: parents who are determined to have paid to bring their children across the border so the family can be together will be subject to prosecution. And many of those children will be subject to deportation. About 11 million people are potentially in the crosshairs of these hateful measures.
A border fully “weaponized”. Terrified children separated from their families by armed police. Checkpoints where people are dragged away because of their accent, their skin color, the kind of clothes they wear. Pre-dawn blockades of immigrant communities. These nightmare proposals represent another lurch toward the fascist future of Trumpworld. It is not a world anyone should accept. This attack must be met with massive opposition. It must be defeated. This regime must be ousted.
Trump: The Rise of Fascism?
A video by Esteban Urayya
D.H.S. Draft Memo: Use 100,000 National Guard Troops to Arrest, Deport Immigrants
February 19 On Friday the Associated Press (A.P.) reported the draft of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal to use up to 100,000 National Guard troops in 11 states as immigration agents in rounding up and deporting untold thousands of immigrants. The report was issued by the office of John Kelly, DHS director, and stated it was intended to implement Trump’s executive order on “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvement”. Spokespeople for the Trump/Pence regime first denied the A.P. story. Then they claimed it was an early draft. They gave no explanation for why the proposal had supposedly been rejected for now. No regime official ruled out the future use of the National Guard to round up immigrants.
Millions of people in the crosshairs of midnight raids; deportations that tear apart families; checkpoints staffed by armed military personnel popping up in barrios of cities and towns in the Southwest; soldiers boarding busses and trains to check for papers, and providing immediate punishment to those who don’t provide. This is part of the nightmare of the fascist America Trump is trying to consolidate. It is utterly unacceptable. For the future of humanity, we, the people, must drive this regime out.
Voices of Resistance & Conscience Vs. Trump & Pence
Wear the Sign Banned at Lincoln Center!
February 23 The New York Times reported that “Jenny Heinz, a longtime Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic subscriber, calculates that over the past 60 years, she has been to hundreds of performances at Lincoln Center. But when she showed up this month at David Geffen Hall to see the Budapest Festival Orchestra, she was barred from attending when she refused to remove an 8-by-11-inch sign affixed to the back of her jacket.
“It read: “NO! In the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America.”
Go HERE to download, wear and spread everywhere the NO! sign banned at Lincoln Center
Anne Frank Center for Tolerance Denounces Trump’s So-Called “Condemnation” of Anti-Semitic Attacks
On February 21, Donald Trump issued a statement supposedly condemning anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish institutions. At his February 16 press conference, Trump had insulted and bullied a correspondent from an orthodox Jewish news agency who asked if Trump could condemn the wave of threats against Jewish institutions. Trump cut him off, yelled “quiet!” and “sit down” and ranted that this was “a very insulting question.” Trump then declared himself “the least anti- Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life” while refusing the reporter’s request to condemn attacks on Jewish institutions. Days after this, on February 20th, Jewish community centers in ten states were targeted with bomb threats and forced to evacuate.
Immediately after Trump’s statement, the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect posted a response on Facebook. The Center takes inspiration from Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager hunted down and killed by the NAZIs. Her Diary is a famous chronicle of hiding out from the NAZIs. The center “calls out prejudice, counters discrimination and advocates for the kinder and fairer world of which Anne Frank dreamed.” (more…)
The Muslim Ban and the Road to Fascism
by Steven Jonas Well, yes, despite the protestations of the Trumpites to the contrary, the Ban was intended to be a Muslim Ban. Giuliani gave it away when he said that of course Christians from the Seven Countries would be exempted. Trump’s xenophobic, Islamophobic base knows exactly at whom it was aimed. And so, do the far-Right acolytes like Frank Gaffney, who have their own followings. Trump wanted to make sure that they would be on board with him, about the Ban as well as other policy initiatives. And of course, the Ban had nothing to do with “security.”
I, as well as numerous others, have said that Trump is a fascist, of the 21st century variety to be sure. (more…)
Librarians Resist Trump
February 17 – Excerpts from an article on the website of PBS. Protests against the new administration by librarians … began popping up in large numbers around the country after Mr. Trump signed two executive orders on immigration, one which could lead to the stripping of federal funds of so-called “sanctuary cities”, refugees as well as travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. — an order that’s been halted by the courts, but is still at the center of a legal battle. (more…)
Wear the Sign Banned at Lincoln Center!
February 23 The New York Times reported that “Jenny Heinz, a longtime Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic subscriber, calculates that over the past 60 years, she has been to hundreds of performances at Lincoln Center. But when she showed up this month at David Geffen Hall to see the Budapest Festival Orchestra, she was barred from attending when she refused to remove an 8-by-11-inch sign affixed to the back of her jacket.
“It read: “NO! In the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America.”
Go HERE to download, wear and spread everywhere the NO! sign banned at Lincoln Center
Anne Frank Center for Tolerance Denounces Trump’s So-Called “Condemnation” of Anti-Semitic Attacks
On February 21, Donald Trump issued a statement supposedly condemning anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish institutions. At his February 16 press conference, Trump had insulted and bullied a correspondent from an orthodox Jewish news agency who asked if Trump could condemn the wave of threats against Jewish institutions. Trump cut him off, yelled “quiet!” and “sit down” and ranted that this was “a very insulting question.” Trump then declared himself “the least anti- Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life” while refusing the reporter’s request to condemn attacks on Jewish institutions. Days after this, on February 20th, Jewish community centers in ten states were targeted with bomb threats and forced to evacuate.
Immediately after Trump’s statement, the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect posted a response on Facebook. The Center takes inspiration from Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager hunted down and killed by the NAZIs. Her Diary is a famous chronicle of hiding out from the NAZIs. The center “calls out prejudice, counters discrimination and advocates for the kinder and fairer world of which Anne Frank dreamed.” (more…)
The Muslim Ban and the Road to Fascism
by Steven Jonas Well, yes, despite the protestations of the Trumpites to the contrary, the Ban was intended to be a Muslim Ban. Giuliani gave it away when he said that of course Christians from the Seven Countries would be exempted. Trump’s xenophobic, Islamophobic base knows exactly at whom it was aimed. And so, do the far-Right acolytes like Frank Gaffney, who have their own followings. Trump wanted to make sure that they would be on board with him, about the Ban as well as other policy initiatives. And of course, the Ban had nothing to do with “security.”
I, as well as numerous others, have said that Trump is a fascist, of the 21st century variety to be sure. (more…)
Librarians Resist Trump
February 17 – Excerpts from an article on the website of PBS. Protests against the new administration by librarians … began popping up in large numbers around the country after Mr. Trump signed two executive orders on immigration, one which could lead to the stripping of federal funds of so-called “sanctuary cities”, refugees as well as travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. — an order that’s been halted by the courts, but is still at the center of a legal battle. (more…)