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14th July 2017, 17:06
RiseUp! Special Issue: July 15 Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
Chris --
Duologos 2017
In this issue...
▪ Special Letter from Carl Dix: We are at a critical juncture...
▪ Saturday Protests - 17 Cities: Trump/Pence Regime MUST GO!
▪ Outrage: National Rifle Association Calls Its Supporters To Arms Against Critics of Trump
▪ Joe Veale: The Right to Self-Defense, Black People, and the NAZI Rifle Association
***
Saturday Protests in 17 Cities: Trump/Pence Regime MUST GO!
Letter from Carl Dix, co-Founder, Stop Mass Incarceration Network, and an initiator of Refuse Fascism
https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/1718/5745/original/CD_Bio_Panel.PNG?1493242604
We are at a critical juncture. The fascist Trump/Pence regime is pressing ahead with its fascist agenda on every front, launching attack after attack on Muslims, immigrants, women, Black and Latino people, LBGTQ people, the media and everybody's political and legal rights. The National Rifle Association and other reactionary forces are calling on their supporters to serve as shock troops for this fascist reordering of society.
Gil Scott Heron said in Watergate Blues (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F1wixtjUL42E&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=1) - It's looking like Europe in '38. Did they move to stop Hitler before it was too late? That question is up right now, and we must answer it definitively by acting to call forth the millions and millions of people who hate everything this regime represents and agonize over what it will mean for humanity if these fascists have their way. We must say: NO, not this time fascists. We must drive this regime from office.
Join in the protests happening nationwide on July 15 (below), spread the word on these protests online and in other ways, and donate to help make this effort as strong as possible. For more information here (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Frefusefascism.org%2F2017%2F06%2F 09%2Fjuly-15-2017-in-cities-across-the-country-demonstrate%2F&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=2).
Regards,
Carl
[email protected]
***
DONATE Drive Out Trump/Pence Regime (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Frefusefascism.org%2Fdonate%2F&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=3)
Saturday Protests 17 Cities: Trump/Pence Regime MUST GO!
Alameda CA: 12:00 pm 1500 Park Street "Everyone Belongs Here Vigil"
Atlanta GA: 12:00 pm, Speak Out, Jackson Street & Auburn Avenue,
1:00 pm March
Boston: 6:00 pm, Davis Square, Holland Street & Highland Avenue
Chicago: 12:00 pm, Corner of Michigan Ave & Congress
Cleveland: 12:00 pm rally, 2:00 pm march, The Free Stamp at Willard Park, E. 9th and Lakeside
Detroit: 1:00 pm, Joe Louis Fist Statue, 10 Woodward Avenue
Denver: 3:00 pm, State Capitol, 200 E. Colfax
Harrisburg PA: 1:00 pm, Harrisburg Capitol steps
Honolulu: 5:00 pm, Kalakaua/Kapahulu (front of Zoo)
Houston: 10:00 am, Sam Houston Park, 1000 Bagby
Los Angeles: 3:00 pm, Hollywood & Highland, 6801 Hollywood Blvd
New York City:
4:00 pm, Trump Tower 5::30 pm Rally 48th & Broadway; March to Union Square
2:00 pm (newly added) Jews Against Trump (everyone welcome), Riverdale Temple 4545 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY
Oklahoma City 2:00 pm S.W. 29th Street & South Agnew
Philadelphia: 4:00 pm, Thomas Paine Plaza, 1401 John F Kennedy Blvd
Portland OR: 3:00 pm, Holladay City Park, 1125 NE Holladay Street
San Francisco: 2:00 pm, UN Plaza San Francisco
Seattle: 11:00 am, Cal Anderson Park, 1635 11th Avenue
Tucson: 6:00 pm, Catalina Park and Splash Pad
***
National Rifle Association Calls Its Supporters To Arms Against Critics of Trump
https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/1727/6954/original/NObanNOwall-MemeRF.jpg?1493596162
This statement was issued by: Carl Dix, Sunsara Taylor, Cornel West and Andy Zee; who initiated RefuseFascism.org.
We Must Support Those Under Attack
July 10, 2017
The National Rifle Association (NRA) recently put out two lurid and inflammatory videos. The first essentially called on the followers of the NRA, and Trump supporters generally, to attack those who are dissenting, protesting and resisting the imposition of this regimes draconian measures. When some people protested this, they released a second video which continued in this same vein and raised the stakes by naming, and attacking, Tamika Mallory of the Womens March, DeRay McKesson of Campaign Zero, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsome of California, and Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut.
The mobilizing of the minions and trolls of this regime to go after specific individuals is not only chilling but could directly endanger those individuals. Particularly in the case of Tamika Mallory and DeRay McKesson African-American activists who are explicitly attacked for their associations with important movements for social justice this is extremely chilling and must be opposed, especially given the history and current-day reality both of the US in general and the particular persons wielding power in this regime. This is also true for Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American Muslim activist who has also come under vicious attack from the extreme right. The warning of Pastor Martin Niemoller in Germany that first they came for the Communists and I did nothing, for I was not a communist, then they came for the Jews, but I did nothing for I was not a Jew and so on down the line must be taken to heart and the grievous mistake that he criticizes must not be repeated in todays circumstances.
We state our solidarity with those who have been singled out and declare as loudly as we can, NOT this time, fascists.
***
The Right to Self-Defense, Black People, and the NAZI Rifle Association
by Joe Veale
July 3, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.revcom.us&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=4)
When Philando Castile, a Black man, was stopped by police in Minnesota for a supposed traffic violation, he calmly told the police he had a licensed gun. The pig blew him away, and walked free. And the National Rifle Associationthe big defenders of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, the right to bear armssuddenly fell silent.
Why? For starters, when this amendment was adopted, Black people were slaves. Said to be only 3/5 of a human being. Black people were made the property of rich white plantation owners.
The slave ALWAYS wants to kill the slave master. So of course there would be no right to bear arms, just as there would be no other rights. In fact, the whole point of this amendment in the first place was to enable slave owners, as well as those who were stealing land from Native American Indians, to form up militias to enforce this thievery, murder and enslavement.
When slavery and capitalism could no longer coexist and slavery was abolished through a Civil Warthe system of white supremacy was held in place by Jim Crow and the sharecropping system that served the capitalist system. And this system was held in place by the right of white men to bear armsto carry out lynching and other forms of terror against Black people.
But the oppressor ALWAYS FEARS those it oppresses. The oppressed ALWAYS want to throw off that which torments them. ALWAYS want to get the boot of oppression off of their necks.
As Black people came into the cities, the policestill backed up by armed white mobs and the kinds of racist vigilantes who killed Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and Renisha McBridebecame the new enforcers of oppression.
Now we are living in times when those who rule this system have put a straight-up Hitlera regime of fascists, Nazis, KKK pigs and women-hating thugsin the drivers seat to govern their system, to meet the challenges they face in the world.
Including some of the challenges they face herebringing down the New Jim Crow on people even harderbecause this same system finds it has no profitable use for millions of Black and other oppressed people, leaving them in situations where they are forced to compete with each other in the illegal economywith its rules of revenge and retaliation.
All this backed up and enforced through this systems judicial systemwhich allows murdering pigs to walk over and overagain, again and againeach time they say: I feared for my life as they gun downin cold blooda Black person.
Those in the ruling class desperately FEAR Black people exercising their right to bear arms in this situation. And now the so-called National Rifle Associationwhich should more correctly be called the NAZI Rifle Association and which was so silent on Philando Castileloudly calls on its minions to bear arms to help them in this and other atrocities and fascist repression.
When the Oppressed Defend Themselves
But when the oppressed begin to righteously defend themselves against their oppressor and his violent, illegitimate actions, then that system and all that holds it together can begin to come apart.
The Deacons for Defense and Justice, a Black group, exercised their right to defend civil rights activists against white racist lynch mobs, the KKK, and the sheriffs in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama during the 1960s. They did it according to law.
Robert Williams did the same thing in North Carolina, leading armed self-defense of the Black community against the KKK.
Later, in Oakland, California, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party legally armed themselves and patrolled the police to make sure the police would not get away with brutalizing or murdering Black people.
What did the powers that be do? Did they support, applaud, encourage, and back people for exercising their right to bear arms? HELL NO!
In each case the FBI, together with the KKK and the local police, illegally bugged peopleset people up on charges that could mount to decades and life in prisonmurdered or attempted to set up people for murderhounded people out of the countryfor exercising the right to bear armsfor righteously defending themselves against illegitimate attack, whether carried out by the KKK or the police.
The oppressor ALWAYS fears those it oppresses exercising the "right" to bear arms.
Why? Because when the oppressors ability to get away with dehumanizing, brutalizing, and murdering people is met with self-defense, then the lines are drawn sharply for everyone in societyand the question is sharply posed:
Who is just in exercising the right to bear arms? Those who represent a system that cannot do without such savage inequality and oppressionor those who exercise the right to bear arms to defend themselves against those who enforce such dehumanizing and illegitimate oppression?
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/ (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/?e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=5)
Stop Mass Incarceration Network Box 941 Knickerbocker Station, New York , NY 10002, United States
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Duologos 2017
In this issue...
▪ Special Letter from Carl Dix: We are at a critical juncture...
▪ Saturday Protests - 17 Cities: Trump/Pence Regime MUST GO!
▪ Outrage: National Rifle Association Calls Its Supporters To Arms Against Critics of Trump
▪ Joe Veale: The Right to Self-Defense, Black People, and the NAZI Rifle Association
***
Saturday Protests in 17 Cities: Trump/Pence Regime MUST GO!
Letter from Carl Dix, co-Founder, Stop Mass Incarceration Network, and an initiator of Refuse Fascism
https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/1718/5745/original/CD_Bio_Panel.PNG?1493242604
We are at a critical juncture. The fascist Trump/Pence regime is pressing ahead with its fascist agenda on every front, launching attack after attack on Muslims, immigrants, women, Black and Latino people, LBGTQ people, the media and everybody's political and legal rights. The National Rifle Association and other reactionary forces are calling on their supporters to serve as shock troops for this fascist reordering of society.
Gil Scott Heron said in Watergate Blues (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F1wixtjUL42E&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=1) - It's looking like Europe in '38. Did they move to stop Hitler before it was too late? That question is up right now, and we must answer it definitively by acting to call forth the millions and millions of people who hate everything this regime represents and agonize over what it will mean for humanity if these fascists have their way. We must say: NO, not this time fascists. We must drive this regime from office.
Join in the protests happening nationwide on July 15 (below), spread the word on these protests online and in other ways, and donate to help make this effort as strong as possible. For more information here (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Frefusefascism.org%2F2017%2F06%2F 09%2Fjuly-15-2017-in-cities-across-the-country-demonstrate%2F&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=2).
Regards,
Carl
[email protected]
***
DONATE Drive Out Trump/Pence Regime (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Frefusefascism.org%2Fdonate%2F&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=3)
Saturday Protests 17 Cities: Trump/Pence Regime MUST GO!
Alameda CA: 12:00 pm 1500 Park Street "Everyone Belongs Here Vigil"
Atlanta GA: 12:00 pm, Speak Out, Jackson Street & Auburn Avenue,
1:00 pm March
Boston: 6:00 pm, Davis Square, Holland Street & Highland Avenue
Chicago: 12:00 pm, Corner of Michigan Ave & Congress
Cleveland: 12:00 pm rally, 2:00 pm march, The Free Stamp at Willard Park, E. 9th and Lakeside
Detroit: 1:00 pm, Joe Louis Fist Statue, 10 Woodward Avenue
Denver: 3:00 pm, State Capitol, 200 E. Colfax
Harrisburg PA: 1:00 pm, Harrisburg Capitol steps
Honolulu: 5:00 pm, Kalakaua/Kapahulu (front of Zoo)
Houston: 10:00 am, Sam Houston Park, 1000 Bagby
Los Angeles: 3:00 pm, Hollywood & Highland, 6801 Hollywood Blvd
New York City:
4:00 pm, Trump Tower 5::30 pm Rally 48th & Broadway; March to Union Square
2:00 pm (newly added) Jews Against Trump (everyone welcome), Riverdale Temple 4545 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY
Oklahoma City 2:00 pm S.W. 29th Street & South Agnew
Philadelphia: 4:00 pm, Thomas Paine Plaza, 1401 John F Kennedy Blvd
Portland OR: 3:00 pm, Holladay City Park, 1125 NE Holladay Street
San Francisco: 2:00 pm, UN Plaza San Francisco
Seattle: 11:00 am, Cal Anderson Park, 1635 11th Avenue
Tucson: 6:00 pm, Catalina Park and Splash Pad
***
National Rifle Association Calls Its Supporters To Arms Against Critics of Trump
https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/1727/6954/original/NObanNOwall-MemeRF.jpg?1493596162
This statement was issued by: Carl Dix, Sunsara Taylor, Cornel West and Andy Zee; who initiated RefuseFascism.org.
We Must Support Those Under Attack
July 10, 2017
The National Rifle Association (NRA) recently put out two lurid and inflammatory videos. The first essentially called on the followers of the NRA, and Trump supporters generally, to attack those who are dissenting, protesting and resisting the imposition of this regimes draconian measures. When some people protested this, they released a second video which continued in this same vein and raised the stakes by naming, and attacking, Tamika Mallory of the Womens March, DeRay McKesson of Campaign Zero, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsome of California, and Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut.
The mobilizing of the minions and trolls of this regime to go after specific individuals is not only chilling but could directly endanger those individuals. Particularly in the case of Tamika Mallory and DeRay McKesson African-American activists who are explicitly attacked for their associations with important movements for social justice this is extremely chilling and must be opposed, especially given the history and current-day reality both of the US in general and the particular persons wielding power in this regime. This is also true for Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American Muslim activist who has also come under vicious attack from the extreme right. The warning of Pastor Martin Niemoller in Germany that first they came for the Communists and I did nothing, for I was not a communist, then they came for the Jews, but I did nothing for I was not a Jew and so on down the line must be taken to heart and the grievous mistake that he criticizes must not be repeated in todays circumstances.
We state our solidarity with those who have been singled out and declare as loudly as we can, NOT this time, fascists.
***
The Right to Self-Defense, Black People, and the NAZI Rifle Association
by Joe Veale
July 3, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.revcom.us&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=4)
When Philando Castile, a Black man, was stopped by police in Minnesota for a supposed traffic violation, he calmly told the police he had a licensed gun. The pig blew him away, and walked free. And the National Rifle Associationthe big defenders of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, the right to bear armssuddenly fell silent.
Why? For starters, when this amendment was adopted, Black people were slaves. Said to be only 3/5 of a human being. Black people were made the property of rich white plantation owners.
The slave ALWAYS wants to kill the slave master. So of course there would be no right to bear arms, just as there would be no other rights. In fact, the whole point of this amendment in the first place was to enable slave owners, as well as those who were stealing land from Native American Indians, to form up militias to enforce this thievery, murder and enslavement.
When slavery and capitalism could no longer coexist and slavery was abolished through a Civil Warthe system of white supremacy was held in place by Jim Crow and the sharecropping system that served the capitalist system. And this system was held in place by the right of white men to bear armsto carry out lynching and other forms of terror against Black people.
But the oppressor ALWAYS FEARS those it oppresses. The oppressed ALWAYS want to throw off that which torments them. ALWAYS want to get the boot of oppression off of their necks.
As Black people came into the cities, the policestill backed up by armed white mobs and the kinds of racist vigilantes who killed Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and Renisha McBridebecame the new enforcers of oppression.
Now we are living in times when those who rule this system have put a straight-up Hitlera regime of fascists, Nazis, KKK pigs and women-hating thugsin the drivers seat to govern their system, to meet the challenges they face in the world.
Including some of the challenges they face herebringing down the New Jim Crow on people even harderbecause this same system finds it has no profitable use for millions of Black and other oppressed people, leaving them in situations where they are forced to compete with each other in the illegal economywith its rules of revenge and retaliation.
All this backed up and enforced through this systems judicial systemwhich allows murdering pigs to walk over and overagain, again and againeach time they say: I feared for my life as they gun downin cold blooda Black person.
Those in the ruling class desperately FEAR Black people exercising their right to bear arms in this situation. And now the so-called National Rifle Associationwhich should more correctly be called the NAZI Rifle Association and which was so silent on Philando Castileloudly calls on its minions to bear arms to help them in this and other atrocities and fascist repression.
When the Oppressed Defend Themselves
But when the oppressed begin to righteously defend themselves against their oppressor and his violent, illegitimate actions, then that system and all that holds it together can begin to come apart.
The Deacons for Defense and Justice, a Black group, exercised their right to defend civil rights activists against white racist lynch mobs, the KKK, and the sheriffs in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama during the 1960s. They did it according to law.
Robert Williams did the same thing in North Carolina, leading armed self-defense of the Black community against the KKK.
Later, in Oakland, California, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party legally armed themselves and patrolled the police to make sure the police would not get away with brutalizing or murdering Black people.
What did the powers that be do? Did they support, applaud, encourage, and back people for exercising their right to bear arms? HELL NO!
In each case the FBI, together with the KKK and the local police, illegally bugged peopleset people up on charges that could mount to decades and life in prisonmurdered or attempted to set up people for murderhounded people out of the countryfor exercising the right to bear armsfor righteously defending themselves against illegitimate attack, whether carried out by the KKK or the police.
The oppressor ALWAYS fears those it oppresses exercising the "right" to bear arms.
Why? Because when the oppressors ability to get away with dehumanizing, brutalizing, and murdering people is met with self-defense, then the lines are drawn sharply for everyone in societyand the question is sharply posed:
Who is just in exercising the right to bear arms? Those who represent a system that cannot do without such savage inequality and oppressionor those who exercise the right to bear arms to defend themselves against those who enforce such dehumanizing and illegitimate oppression?
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/ (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/?e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jul_15&n=5)
Stop Mass Incarceration Network Box 941 Knickerbocker Station, New York , NY 10002, United States
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