Saturday - Screening of Bob Avakian talk on The Trump/Pence Regime, a fascist regime

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___________________________________ The Bob Avakian Institute invites you to a screening and discussion of: “The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America. A Better World IS Possible.”  A film of a talk by Bob Avakian Saturday, December 30, 2017 5:00 p.m. The Peace Center 3916 Sepulveda Blvd. Culver City, CA  90230 directions (between Venice and Washington Blvd.) In this hour long talk, Avakian addresses the most important question of the day: how to understand, and what to do about, the threat to humanity itself posed by the Trump/Pence regime. He explains how this is in fact a fascist regime and traces its roots — the deeper and more immediate causes of its rise to power.  In it, BA makes the case for massive, sustained nonviolent outpourings of the people as crucial to creating a situation where this regime could be removed from power. Bob Avakian provides the kind of rigorous analysis and understanding, along with great heart, that can inform a fully commensurate response.   Please join us, to watch this talk together, to get into discussion with others and to learn more about the work of The Bob Avakian Institute. Watch the trailer here: For more information:  TheBobAvakianInstitute.org

RefuseFascism: Sunday - Mass Organizing Meeting; Tuesday - Protest/Speak Out! #NoMoore!

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Refuse Fascism is a national organization, calling on MILLIONS to get into the streets and stay in the streets until the Trump/Pence Regime is driven from power. This vision needs organization, come to our mass meeting this Sunday and make plans for important upcoming events and going into the new year! EVERYONE WHO AGREES THAT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO, Is welcomed! Come for the day bring your friends, invite your family everyone is NEEDED to Drive out this Trump/Pence FASCIST Regime! SoCal Mass Organizing Meeting Sunday, December 10th, 3 - 6 PM MCAU Gallery 220 Glendale Blvd., south of Temple Blvd., Echo Park Los Angeles 90026 (Street parking only) For more info:  SoCal [at] RefuseFascism.org (323) 946-1742   * * * * *  Protest/Speak Out! #No Moore! Refuse A Fascist Theocracy! Tuesday, December 12th 6 - 9 PM Hollywood & Highland   #NoMoore! Refuse A Fascist Theocracy! End Sexual Predation and the Enslavement of Women This Nightmare Must End: The Trump Regime Must Go! Protest Everywhere December 12 On Tuesday December 12, a high-stakes election is taking place in Alabama between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones. Roy Moore is a Christian fascist theocrat who has twice been removed as a judge for attempting to remove the separation between church & state by placing “Biblical Law” above Constitutional protections . He has galvanized a fascist base & has been endorsed by an admitted sexual-predator, Donald Trump. Some of Moore’s most powerful supporters have declared that even if the allegations that he sexually molested girls are true, he should still be elected to the Senate. Others have even used the Bible to justify Moore’s predation of young girls. It is dangerous that Moore is being treated as a “legitimate” candidate & that even most criticism of him ignores his role in setting up a theocratic government. Trump, Pence and Roy Moore represent an unholy American fascism; rooted in white supremacy, patriarchy, extreme religious fundamentalism, and America-First chauvinism. Trump has packed the federal courts with right-wing judges and filled his cabinet with religious fanatics. Mike Pence opposes abortion and birth control; as Indiana governor he oversaw the imprisonment of Purvi Patel for allegedly self-inducing an abortion. The election of Moore would represent an extremely dangerous leap in the consolidation of fascism in America. Even if defeated, Moore's campaign has accelerated the mainstreaming and normalization of theocratic fascism. Here are just a few examples of Roy Moore’s outrageous history: - Moore installed a two-ton monument of the 10 Commandments on Alabama Supreme Court property and defied orders from a higher court to remove it. For this he was removed from the bench. - Moore was removed a second time from the bench for ordering judges in Alabama to defy the Supreme Court by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Moore said the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage was “worse” than the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision of 1857. - Moore wants to criminalize abortion in all circumstances. - Moore has promoted the racist, xenophobic lie that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. Millions of people do NOT want to live in Moore's kind of society, and feel it is a nightmare. We must reach them and challenge them to act. Everyday this regime is in power they are hammering their agenda into place & it becomes normalized. Waiting for elections in 2018 or 2020 endangers humanity. The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! Only the people acting in our millions in determined & continuous protest can end the nightmare. On December 12 all those who want this nightmare to end-- Take to the streets to demand that the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!— In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America. Wear your Handmaid’s Tale costumes Spread on Facebook Refusefascism.org

Holiday Discount Bundle from Insight Press

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Especially in these times... The ideal gift for family and friends. Insight Press www.insight-press.com

Friday, 10 AM - The Michael Slate Show: Dahr Jamail on Climate Change and Present Catastrophes

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THIS WEEK:   Dahr Jamail on the Melting of Antarctica and Other Catastrophic Impacts of Climate Disruption Journalist and author Dahr Jamail began a recent article in his Climate Disruption series by observing, "The signs of runaway anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) continue to mount with each passing month." We'll talk about the impacts on hundreds of species and millions of humans, the accelerating causes, and the dire threat to the future of the planet of the Trump/Pence regime, if you only consider its impact on the planet. Dahr Jamail, is a Truthout staff reporter, the author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan and Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.

Friday, 10 AM - The Michael Slate Show: Dr. LeRoy Carhart, Defending Abortion; Update on #J20 Defendants; BA, Trump/Pence Must Go!

REVOLUTION BOOKS LOS ANGELES View this email in your browser Received via email.  We Recommend:   Friday, December 1, 2017 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live Website  Twitter,  Facebook

THIS WEEK: Dr. LeRoy Carhart and the Battle to Provide Abortion Services in America Dr. LeRoy Carhart is one of the very few courageous doctors to provide late abortions. He has persevered in the face of legal obstacles and anti-woman terror, including the murder of his friend and colleague Dr. George Tiller. Recently, his clinic in Maryland was abruptly closed by the landlord, who announced it had been bought by anti-woman fascists. Dr. Carhart is waging a battle to defend and protect the right of all women to have access to abortion. Sam Menefee-Libey on Dramatic Developments in the Inauguration Day - J20 - Protest Trial. We'll get an update from Attorney Sam Menefee-Libey from the Dead City Legal Posse on the first trial of the J20 defendants, part of the nearly 200 protesters who have decades in prison for righteously protesting the inauguration of the fascist Trump.The latest developments include the prosecution introducing a video furnished by an associate of the fascist James O’Keefe, who became known for publishing doctored videos.  Bob Avakian, The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America. A Better World IS Possible. In the film of a new speech, Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, addresses the most urgent question of the day: how to understand, and what to do about, the threat to humanity itself posed by the Trump/Pence regime. We'll hear an excerpt in which he responds to the question, How is it possible to maintain a movement of that scale for a long period of time? The entire talk is available here. Next screening in LA: Tuesday, December 5 @  5 PM 2716 S. Vermont Ave #8  Los Angeles, 90007 Hosted by the Revolution Club LA. Recommended: SPEAK OUT! Against Sexual Assault & Degradation of Women, sponsored by Refuse Fascism LA Monday, December 4 at 12 PM - 3 PM At the UCLA Bruin Bear It is extremely important and positive that many, many women are raising their voices, breaking the silence, and voicing their anger against the rampant culture of sexual harassment and assault -- especially against men in positions of power. This must be united with and unleashed even further, including that this outrage must increasingly be brought into and help carry forward the movement to drive out the most powerful misogynists in the world -- Donald Trump & Mike Pence and the enslaving program for women they are rapidly implementing as a cornerstone of their all-around fascism. Share the Facebook Event Page * * * * * Sunday, December 3 @ 3:00 PM Sepulveda Peace Center (3916 Sepulveda, Culver City, 90230) Refuse Fascism Potluck Social Gathering Join Refuse Fascism and others this Sunday, December 3rd for a Potluck Social Gathering. Get to know the beautiful, determined people who are coming together to drive out the Trump/Pence Regime! Build a community of people. Learn from each other and celebrating our diversity! Bring a dish, bring chips, drinks...and let's have a good time! Share the Facebook Event Page

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*Check the bottom of this email to see the Refuse Fascism LA Calendar From: The National Student Task Force Students have played a major role in almost every movement for social and political change and this is needed now more than ever.  A fascist regime holds the reins of power in the U.S. And they have communicated by word and deed that they are determined to cohere America under the banner of open white supremacy, patriarchy, and American chauvinism.  Right now fascist intellectual hitmen (Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, Steve Bannon, Mike Cernovich, Richard Spencer, and more) have descended on the campus in the service of the Trump/Pence Regime. YOU’RE NEEDED: Think about what you felt the day you found out Trump was elected.  Now ACT on that feeling and organize others to PROTEST and NOT STOP UNTIL they are Driven from Power! THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 @ 4:30 PM MASS STUDENT ORGANIZING MEETING  CAL STATE L.A. DREAMERS RESOURCE CENTER  ROOM: SA 214 FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE HERE Invite your friends, fellow students, student organizations, professors. SHARE the FB page and the graphic on social media. This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!  BREAK THE SILENCE! BRING THE NOISE! Contact us: students@refusefascism.org (323) 946-1742 * * * Join Refuse Fascism in the streets reaching thousands with this message: This Nightmare MUST END: The Trump/Pence Regime MUST GO!! Wednesday, November 29 @ 10 am USC campus (meet at Tommy Trojan Statue) #GradTaxWalkOut STOP the Tax Reform Bill, Walk Out!  Stand with Students opposing the Tax Reform Bill and Organize them to STOP this whole FASCIST regime! Share the Facebook Event Page * * * Wednesday, November 29 @ 7 pm  Moore 100 - UCLA Campus "Know Rights!/Know Self!: Policing and Protesting 101"  Panel & Discussion with Representatives from ACLU, UCPD, Student Legal Services, and Refuse Fascism. Know Rights!/Know Self! : Policing and Protesting 101 * * * Friday, December 1 @ 4:30 pm CalState LA Campus (Dreamers Resource Center ROOM SA 214)  MASS STUDENT ORGANIZING MEETING! We are calling on all students, if you don't want to grow up in a world where a FASCIST Regime Rules, YOU ARE NEEDED! Come get organized and get other students organized to DRIVE OUT THIS FASCIST REGIME FROM POWER! Invite your friends, fellow students, student organizations, professors. SHARE the FB page and the graphic on social media Share the Facebook Event Page * * * Sunday, December 3 @ 3:00 pm Sepulveda Peace Center (3916 Sepulveda, Culver City, 90230) Refuse Fascism Potluck Social Gathering Join Refuse Fascism and others this Sunday, December 3rd for a Potluck Social Gathering. Get to know the beautiful, determined people who are coming together to drive out the Trump/Pence Regime! Build a community of people. Learn from each other and celebrating our diversity! Bring a dish, bring chips, drinks...and let's have a good time! Share the Facebook Event Page * * * Monday, December 4 @ 12 NOON | UCLA Campus (Bruin Bear) SPEAK OUT! Against Sexual Assault & The Degradation of Women! DRIVE OUT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME! Unleash the Fury of Women! Speak out against the Sexual Predator in Chief and say NO MORE! This Nightmare MUST END! Share the Facebook Event Page * * * DONATE TODAY to this very important mission of Driving Out the Trump/Pence Regime. Volunteers have changed around their entire lives to be a part of leading MILLIONS to Driving out the Trump/Pence Regime! They need your support, your contribution! MILLIONS of people who are RIGHT NOW AGONIZING because they see no way out of this NIGHTMARE! We HAVE to reach them! CONTRIBUTE to making more materials that can reach these people in different ways! Spread the word about this $250,000 National GOAL!  DONATE HERE: donate.refusefascism.org/RefuseFascismSoCal DONATE TO STOP TRUMP / PENCE

Friday, 10 AM - The Michael Slate Show: Net Neutrality; Slave Rebellion Re-enactment; Trump/Pence Must Go!

From RefuseFascism.org:   UPDATE 11/22: Trump/Pence Must Go protesters engage in non violent civil disobedience on LA 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles The 5 RefuseFascism.org volunteers who blocked the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday morning have been released! Thank you to all the people from throughout the country and beyond who called the LAPD Metropolitan Detention Center to demand the charges be dropped and they be set free.  Late in the day on Wednesday, the City Attorney decided not to file charges against any of the volunteers…at least for now (the City Attorney has 1 year to decide)… and the protesters walked out of LA Metropolitan Court and were greeted by RefuseFascism.org activists who’d been at court demanding their release. It’s very important people from around the country called the authorities to demand their release.  The LAPD had kept the freeway protesters in jail overnight rather than release them on their own recognizance explicitly as ‘preventive detention.”  While they were incarcerated, a number of police told the protesters they weren’t going to be set free because they may carry out another non-violent civil disobedience action and as punishment for carrying out this righteous act.  The police also taunted the protesters from the moment they were arrested, referring especially to November 4 – the RefuseFascism.org call that began the movement “The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go.” Tuesday mornings freeway stoppage came in the wake of November 4, when 4000 people in 24 cities hit the streets demanding “This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!” This was truly a spectacular action:  2.75+ million people have viewed Facebook live coverage: https://www.facebook.com/RefuseFascism/videos/1771370629823612/ https://www.facebook.com/NoBullShitMedia/videos/921098051389748/ View this email in your browser Received via email.  We Recommend:   Friday, November 24, 2017 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live Website  Twitter,  Facebook

This week on The Michael Slate Show: Net Neutrality; Slave Rebellion Re-enactment; Trump/Pence Must Go! Corynne McSherry of Electronic Frontier Foundation on the Threat to Net Neutrality Corynne McSherry, the Legal Director of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), joins us to talk about the Trump administration's threat to net neutrality. As she recently explained on the EFF website, the proposed rule changes on the internet by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), "invites a future where only the largest Internet, cable, and telephone companies survive, while every start-up, small business, and new innovator is crowded out—and the voices of nonprofits and ordinary individuals are suppressed."  Dread Scott on the Slave Rebellion Reenactment Dread Scott joins us to talk about the Slave Rebellion Reenactment. It is "a community-based performance that will restage and reinterpret Louisiana’s Revolt of 1811. This was the largest rebellion of enslaved people in North American history and took place outside of New Orleans." Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. In 1989, the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed his artwork and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its use of the American flag. Courageous Refuse Fascism Protesters Block 101 Freeway During Rush Hour - AGAIN! With courage and conviction, 5 RefuseFascism.org volunteers blocked the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles Tuesdaymorning. Their 60 foot banner read TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! Rush hour freeway traffic was snarled and brought to a stop as the protesters broke through the normalization of fascism in the U.S. with this bold action. We'll speak with two of the courageous freeway protesters..