New Years Eve: Protest at Trump Properties [Chicago] [NYC]
NO! Trump/Pence Protests Ring in New Year: "Stop Them NOW Before They Start!"
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▪ No! Trump/Pence Protests Ring In 2017
▪ Yusef Salaam of the Central Park 5 Speaks on Donald Trump and #RefuseFascism
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NO! Trump/Pence Protests Ring in New Year: "It’s up to us, so do your part! Stop them NOW before they start!"
NO! Trump/Pence protests rang in the New Year across the country. In New York City over 100 people rallied and marched from Columbus Circle to Trump Tower on 5th Avenue, where they counted down the New Year then burst into a chorus of NO's and chants of "It’s up to us, so do your part! Stop them NOW before they start!" and "NO TRUMP, NO KKK, NO FASCIST USA!"
In Los Angeles protesters spelled out "ILLEGITIMATE" in front of Breitbart Headquarters. In San Francisco, dozens took their STOP Trump/Pence message - and a Trump pinata - into crowds on the Embarcadero for the fireworks display. In Chicago, demonstrators protested at Trump International Hotel and Tower.
Protests also took place in Atlanta, Boston, Tucson, Houston, Cleveland, Seattle, Portland (ME), and Ventura (CA). CLICK HERE for list and details. Go to @RefuseFascism and RefuseFascism.org for pictures and video.
The New Year's protests are part of a "Month of Resistance" to rally millions to prevent a Trump/Pence fascist takeover through massive political protest and resistance. See, RefuseFascism.org's Call to Action, "In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America."
Video: Carl Dix on plans to STOP Trump/Pence before they take power
Video: Refuse Fascism
New York City, at Trump Tower
Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago
New York City
Los Angeles, in front of Breitbart Headquarters
RefuseFascism.org for Initiators, Call to Action, Plan to STOP Trump / Pence, Protests and Events
@RefuseFascism Facebook: RefuseFascism #NoFascist2017
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Yusef Salaam of the Central Park 5 Speaks on Donald Trump and #RefuseFascism
Sunsara Taylor, writer for revcom.us/Revolution, recently interviewed Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park 5, and one of the initiators of RefuseFascism.org.
Sunsara Taylor: I thought it would be helpful to introduce yourself and talk a little bit about The Central Park Five, and your earliest encounters learning about Donald Trump.
Yusef Salaam: My name is Yusef Salaam; I’m one of the so-called Central Park Five. On April 19th of 1989, I became a part of a group accused of a crime we didn’t commit. A crime which we were exonerated of 13 years later. That crime was the rape and near murder of a white investment banker in New York City along with the assault of others who has been in Central Park that infamous night. Interestingly, Donald Trump became the figurehead of the mob mentality that New York City took against us. Sarah Burns recently wrote a book which encapsulates the thought process of New York at that time; it is called The Central Park Five, A Chronicle of a City Wilding. The city was wilding against us.
There were assumptions made, and the worst assumption of course came from Donald Trump. Two weeks in, Donald Trump used his money to pay for ad space in New York City’s newspapers, essentially calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty specifically for The Central Park Five. He wants “us” to be murdered. Mind you, many people don’t make $85,000 in a year, the tab it cost him to pay for the ads, but for him it wasn’t even crumbs off his table, it was dust. And here it was, he was making this grand assumption about Black and Brown people, an indictment because of the color of our skin, that we were the “worst of the worst” because we had been “accused.” Instead of the law being the law of the land for everyone, the law was not, and still is not, the law for Black and Brown folks. We are guilty and have to prove ourselves innocent.
So there we were, because of the accusation of “us” being near murderers and rapists, “us” being called “urban terrorists,” as Mayor David Dinkins had said back then, even though he has since apologized. “Super-predators,” as one of the presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton, called “us.” She also has apologized. But Donald Trump has never apologized, and still stands on the side of the full-page ads he paid for decades ago. He still thinks and maintains that we had to be guilty of something.
Read the entire interview with Yusef Salaam here.
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