RiseUp! August 10 - Confront the White Supremacists


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In this issue ...
* From Carl Dix: Aug 12 - Confront the White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville VA
* Aug 20 Chicago: A Talk by Carl Dix - "Trump's Violent Reassertion of White Supremacy, the Threat of Genocide, and What Must Be Done, NOW!"
* A Call from Refuse Fascism – November 4 It Begins: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

#NoNewKKK

CONFRONT THE WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA

Editor's Note: Below is an important message from Carl Dix, co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, calling on people to come to Charlottesville VA to confront the white Supremacist rally being organized there. Cornel West, the other co-founder of SMIN, will also be participating in a march and other events in Charlottesville this weekend.

A “Unite the Right March on Charlottesville” rally has been called on August 12th. I'm going to Charlottesville VA to be part of confronting them, and I call on others to join me there.

Earlier white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville gathered people wearing Ku Klux Klan (KKK) robes, carrying Confederate flags, shouting “white power” slogans and bearing arms. This weekend's rally will bring out these ugly manifestations from the history of US and gather forces who are being welded into a contingent of the storm troopers the fascist Trump/Pence regime is unleashing as it works to bring down and clamp into place fascist rule in this country.

This rally will dredge up the history of unimaginable savagery Black people have suffered in the US. Centuries of slavery, followed by decades of subjugation enforced by lynch mob terror. Thousands of Black people were lynched. The KKK burned crosses and kidnapped, beat and tortured people. Black people were burned alive or had body parts cut off. These savage acts were sometimes announced in newspapers in advance and joined by white mobs that gathered in a festive atmosphere. THIS is the “heritage” these fascists want not just to preserve but to force back on us!

This reassertion of white supremacy is occurring alongside intensification of patriarchy and aggressive national chauvinism. As Bob Avakian, the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party has said, these horrors form a triad of reaction that is being intensified by the atmosphere the fascist Trump/Pence regime is whipping up.

We have to confront these white supremacists in the streets in Charlottesville. In their mobilizations, you can see the outlines of a coming civil war. We have to make them understand that people will not tolerate them spewing their poison. However they come at us, we cannot back down. We have to meet them with a powerful and diverse outpouring that delivers a message that what they represent is unacceptable. #NoNewKKK.

And we can't just show up in Charlottesville for the weekend and think we're done. The intensified white supremacy, patriarchy and aggressive national chauvinism that is surging today must be ended. They and the other horrors the Trump/Pence regime is enforcing on humanity are all rooted in the American system of capitalism/imperialism, a system that's been around too damn long and needs to be gotten rid of in the only way possible – thru an actual revolution that overthrows this system.

And right now everybody, wherever you're coming from, needs to join together to drive the fascist Trump/Pence regime from power before it's too late.

RefuseFascism.org has called for people to take the demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! to the streets in cities and towns across the country on November 4th and stay in the streets, night after night until our demand is met. Be part of fighting back this weekend and getting organized for November 4 to end the nightmare and drive out this regime.

SEE YOU IN CHARLOTTESVILLE THIS WEEKEND!

To hook up with people in Charlottesville VA:

▪ Chicago Revolution Club: 312-804-9121, @RevClubChi, Facebook.com/RevClubChi
▪ RefuseFascism.org: 917-407-1286, @RefuseFascism, Facebook.com/RefuseFascism

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A Call from Refuse Fascism – November 4 It Begins: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!


ON NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Take To The Streets And Public Squares

in cities and towns across the country continuing day after day and night after night—not stopping—until our DEMAND is met:

This Nightmare Must End:

The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!

A Nightmare: Immigrants living in terror—their next step could mean detention, deportation, being torn from children and loved ones.
A Nightmare: Muslims and refugees demonized, banned and cast out.
A Nightmare: Millions—children, the elderly, the sick, the poor—denied healthcare, food assistance, the very right to live.
A Nightmare: Women objectified, degraded, and denied the basic right to control their own reproduction, with fundamentalist Christian fascism increasingly being made law.
A Nightmare: LGBTQ people stigmatized, ostracized, and denied civil rights recently won.
A Nightmare: Black and Latino people openly threatened by the President, with maximum sentencing, stop-and-frisk going national, intensified police brutality and murder of our youth with no holds barred.
A Nightmare: People all over the world facing bombings, occupations, war and the threat of nuclear war with Donald Trump’s “America First” finger on the nuclear trigger.
A Nightmare: The truth bludgeoned—lies and more lies—critical thinking being destroyed in education and public discourse.
A Nightmare: The whole planet in peril from a regime that denies global warming and shreds all environmental protections.
A Nightmare: A regime step by step discarding basic democratic rights, targeting group after group, and suppressing dissent and resistance. A regime unleashing the violence of fascist thugs. This is fascism—a qualitative change in how society is governed. History has shown that fascism must be stopped before it becomes too late.

THIS NIGHTMARE MUST END. Millions feel this and ache with the question of how to stop this unrelenting horror. The stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity and the planet itself.

Who will end this nightmare? We will. Only the determined struggle of millions of people acting together with courage and conviction can drive this regime from power.

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Attend an August 19 Regional Meeting Mobilizing for NOVEMBER 4, 2017:

We will gather in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country, at first many thousands declaring that this whole regime is illegitimate and that we will not stop until our single demand is met: This Nightmare Must End: the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

Our protest must grow day after day and night after night—thousands becoming hundreds of thousands, and then millions—determined to act to put a stop to the grave danger that the Trump/Pence Regime poses to the world by demanding that this whole regime be removed from power.

Our actions will reflect the values of respect for all of humanity and the world we want—in stark contrast to the hate and bigotry of the Trump/Pence fascist regime.

Our determination to persist and not back down will compel the whole world to take note. Every force and faction in the power structure would be forced to respond to our demand. The cracks and divisions among the powers already evident today will sharpen and widen. As we draw more and more people forward to stand up, all of this could lead to a situation where this illegitimate regime is removed from power.

Spread the word and organize now. Be a part of making history. Don’t let it be said that you stood aside when there was still a chance to stop a regime that imperils humanity and the Earth itself. Join in taking to the streets and the public squares day after day and night after night demonstrating that In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America.

On November 4, 2017, we will stand together with conviction and courage, overcoming fear and uncertainty, to insist that: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must GO!

Contact info:
New York City 11am – 5pm 646-851-6785, [email protected]
Austin TX 11am – 5 pm [email protected], [email protected]
Chicago 9am – 5pm 312-933-9586, [email protected], Facebook
Los Angeles 1pm – 7pm 323-946-1742, [email protected], Facebook
San Francisco 10am – 5pm 510-253-5551, [email protected]

Register for the conference here. Email [email protected] for any additional questions or suggestions.

Inscríbase para la conferencia. Envíe sus preguntas o sugerencias adicionales a [email protected].

In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!

This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must GO!



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