One week into the Trump/Pence regime - A New Juncture: RefuseFascism-LA Meeting Wed., 2/1

We received the following from RefuseFascism-LA:

Southern California resisters!

This has been an intense week, both seeing the fascist Trump/Pence regime moving very rapidly to consolidate their rule, as well as huge numbers of people around the country powerfully resisting the executive orders.

Join us at the next important organizing meeting on Wednesday, February 1st at 6:30 PM at Echo Park United Methodist Church, 1226 N. Alvarado Blvd., just off of Sunset, in Echo Park, Los Angeles.  

As is written in A Letter from Carl Dix, Sunsara Taylor, and Andy Zee, Coming To Grips With The New Situation, from RefuseFascism.org:

"So we stand at a new juncture. The regime is in power, and moving quickly. At the same time, millions have registered their opposition and many are looking for a way to fight. Over these next few weeks, revcom.us will be covering the regime and the resistance to it with the same intensity and level of analysis that we have since the election.

Right now it is very important that those who came together around refusefascism.org stay together, reflect on and sum up the rich experience of the past six weeks, and develop new strategy. As one key element of this, it will be important to join with and at times initiate actions against the outrages continually perpetrated by Trump, reaching out to others and sharing perspectives with them.

For the two bedrock points from which we joined with others to start this initiative remain true. One, that this regime is indeed fascist and as such poses a mortal threat and must be defeated. And two, that there are people - millions and tens of millions - who can potentially be mobilized to fight against it and who must be led to step outside the confines of politics-as-usual (including protest-as-usual) to actually OUST this horrendous monstrosity."

Right now, one of the crucial ways to participate is to donate to the local fundraiser so that we can continue to produce much-needed and very welcomed No! posters, stickers, and flyers which are projecting and cohering a powerful force around this message.

Refugees In - Trump/Pence Out!

Contact the SoCal chapter at 323.946.1742 or refusefascismLA@gmail.com to become an organizer.

Get in the streets. Stay in the streets. Be determined to prevent this regime from ruling - Tomorrow meet up with Refuse Fascism at the Women's March-LA

We received the following from RefuseFascism.org-- Southern California Resisters! Saturday, January 21 - Meet up at 7:30 AM at 5th & Hill in Downtown LA (Pershing Square Metro Stop).  Join the RefuseFascism contingent at the Women's March LA tomorrow.  Bring your determination to STOP this regime, as hundreds of thousands pour into the streets from DC to LA, and around the world.  Bring everyone you know who opposes this illegitimate, fascist Trump/Pence regime!  Be a part of getting out the message that this American Hitler will only be stopped by staying in the streets.  Your participation will be decisive in distributing thousands of the new bilingual flyer, new posters, and new "I for Illegitimate"stickers.  Bring drums, noisemakers, and all of your friends and family.   Let's make history.  The whole world is watching. Contact us now at 323.946.1742 or refusefascismla@gmail.com to become an organizer of organizers of the millions who are agonizing over the horror of this incoming regime and want to be a part of stopping it. To receive text updates, text NOTRUMP to 21000

On the Cusp of a Historic Moment - January 20, 2017 - The Michael Slate Show at a Special Time

Received via email.  We Recommend:   Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 Special Time: 11 AM - Noon PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live TMSS:  Website Connect on Twitter  |   Facebook

There Is An Urgent Need--And There IS Still Time In These Next Few Days--To Prevent This Fascist Regime From Ruling From RefuseFascism.org: On January 20, despite the protests of thousands and the anguish and anger stretching all around the world, the powers-that-be intend to inaugurate the Trump-Pence regime of fascism. The Trump-Pence regime would be more than the sum of the many abuses and outrages it plans to perpetrate. If not prevented from ruling, it will be, as a regime, FASCIST--a blatant dictatorship relying on open terror and violence, committing atrocities against groups of people identified as "enemies," "undesirables," or "dangers to society." A Trump-Pence regime would not only be illegitimate; if allowed to go forward it could be catastrophic for humanity. Protest is important, but more than protest is needed. We must actually go all out, now, to prevent this regime from ruling. We are, this weekend, hundreds of thousands protesting. Through staying in the streets and disrupting business as usual, over the next few days and into next week, we could together grow to millions and bring into being a major political crisis, to which all the factions in the power structure would have to react. Stay in the streets, in DC and everywhere else.   In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America.   **We'll talk to a representative from Refuse Fascism about the moment we're in, and their plans for the next few days. **We'll also hear an interview with Michael Mann, a leading climate scientist, about climate change, Trump, and the attacks on scientists. Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University. He is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published several books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, and his latest, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, co-authored with Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles.

Flash! RefuseFascism.org Co-Initiator Carl Dix Disrupts Sessions Confirmation Hearing

We received the following from RefuseFascism.org--

Hello Resisters!

Flash! RefuseFascism.org Co-Initiator Carl Dix Disrupts Sessions Confirmation Hearing

Tuesday morning, RefuseFascism.org Co-Initiator Carl Dix and several other protesters disrupted Senator Sessions confirmation hearing and were removed in handcuffs. Dix was dragged out chanting, "No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA." Another RefuseFascism.org protester was dragged out saying: "We refuse to accept a fascist America. We have to be in the streets starting January 14 to stop the Trump/Pence fascist regime from coming to power."

As the attempted normalization and implantation of what would be an illegitimate, fascist and truly catastrophic regime continues with the hearings on the Ku Kluxer Sessions, we must urgently come together to stop this regime before it starts. There are Plans to do that, beginning this weekend. There are ways to organize this beginning now.

There are meetings Wednesday 1/11 and Thursday 1/12 near you to gather our strength and organize the massive numbers needed to make this reality.  Find out what is scheduled or schedule one yourself.

Three main things to do today:

Get out to any anti-Sessions actions and bring the materials from the organizing kitwith you when you do.

Call for, build for, plan to come to meetings on Wednesday or Thursday night.

Make your plans to get to DC Saturday and stay as long as you can.

Meeting in DC: Thursday January 12 - 7pm
Thursday, January 12 - 7pm

St. Stephens Church

1525 Newton St NW
Washington, DC 20010 
Mass organizing meeting to organize for January 14 #FloodDC to STOP the Trump/Pence fascist regime before they come to power. 

Onward,
The RefuseFascism.org National Team

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In Southern California?

  Join us for the local organizers meeting on 

Wed., Jan. 11th at 6:30 PM

at Echo Park United Methodist Church

1226 N. Alvarado, just off Sunset in L.A.

Contact us at 323.946.1742 or refusefascismLA@gmail.com to get involved. 

You are needed!  

Friday, January 13 - The Michael Slate Show - Refuse Fascism calls on people to Flood DC, Stay in the Streets, Stop the Fascist Trump/Pence Regime BEFORE It Starts

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Tune in Friday, January 13, 10-11AM Pacfic Time KPFK 90.7 FM, kpfk.org

This week's show will be devoted to NO! In The Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America.  "The fascist regime that Trump and Pence are now forging represent an unprecedented danger to humanity. They must be stopped before they take control of the levers of power to commit immense horrors here and around the world. This would continue and leap beyond the countless crimes the U.S. rulers have committed for more than two centuries. To do this will take massive resistance of unprecedented scope, breadth, and determination involving millions of people in all corners of society." -- RefuseFascism.org In the past week, there have been disruptions at Senate hearings on Trump's cabinet nominees, especially that of Jeffrey Sessions, a full-page ad in the Washington Post, and many voices speaking out. Refuse Fascism has called for people to flood Washington DC, with protests beginning Saturday, January 14, with plans to stay in the streets, demonstrating and spreading the word night and day, drawing more and more people, until many millions are in the streets demanding that this fascist regime be stopped before it starts.  For those who can't make it to DC, there are also actions planned at many other cities around the US, including Los Angeles. Refuse Fascism lists events on their website, and encourages people to create their own events if there's no event nearby.  We'll talk with several of the initiators and endorsers of Refuse Fascism: Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party Lalah Hathaway, Grammy Award-winning singerArturo O'Farrill, Afro-Latin jazz musician, pianist and composer * * * * In Los Angeles, contact Refuse Fascism LA at  RefuseFascismLA@gmail.com, or call 323-946-1742.  Upcoming events: January 14 - #NoFascistUSA Encampment at L.A. City Hall Take to the Streets  Be at the Halls of Power  Every day and every night Jan. 14-20   Don't Stop  March into the night...every night  Grow in Numbers...We will be: First: Hundreds & thousands taking to the streets Then: Becoming ten and a hundred thousand Grow each day to become millions across the country as the week of Jan. 16-20 unfolds... Bring signs, drums, horns & noisemakers.  Share on social media.  Spread the word to friends & organizations Join the Facebook event   January 15 NO Deportations NO Wall NO Racism NO Fascist USA Rally and March Assemble, Olympic and Broadway, 2pm, March to City Hall Join the Facebook event

Action TODAY, Jan. 9, 4-8 PM; Next Steps in the Fight to Stop the Trump/Pence Regime Before It Starts

We received the following from RefuseFascism.org--

Action TODAY, Jan. 9, 4-8 PM; 

Next Steps in the Fight to Stop the Trump/Pence Regime Before It Starts

Momentum is growing in the fight to Stop the Trump/Pence Regime Before It Starts! But there is still a big challenge to reach the millions who don't yet know about this movement, and involve them in becoming active participants in the streets.  Join us Wednesday for the next critical organizing meeting (see details below).

Here Are the Next Steps. You are needed to make these powerful advances:

Monday Jan 9 at 4 - 8 PM,  LA City Hall, 200 N. Spring St LA 90012 

The first day of Congress after certifying Trump's election.Joe Biden said "it's over."  NO! NO! NO! - we are calling on the tens of thousands going thru downtown LA and on the freeways during rush hour to say NO! it's NOT over!  Stop the Trump-Pence Regime Before It Starts!  March from City Hall to the freeway overpasses with NO! banners and then march over to Little Tokyo where we'll reach the Japanese American community including those who had families who were put into U.S. internment camps during World War II.  

Tuesday, Jan 10 at 9 AM, Press Conference, Church of the Epiphany, 2808 Altura St., Lincoln Hts, LA 90031.  NO!  Stop the Trump-Pence Regime Before It Starts

No Trump!  No Pence!  No Walls!  No Deportations!  No Racism!

This press event will feature the NO! campaign that declares: In The Name Of Humanity, We Refuse To Accept A Fascist America.  Its focus is a call to immigrant masses, and their sisters and brothers everywhere, to HIT THE STREETS, Sunday, January 15 at 2pm in downtown Los Angeles, at Olympic and Broadway.  Rally on Olympic and Broadway, followed by a march to LA City Hall.  This event is part of mobilizing millions throughout the U.S. to prevent the Trump-Pence regime from consolidating power.

Featured speakers are co-initiators and signatories of RefuseFascism.org's CALL TO ACTION recently published in the New York Times.

Isabel Cardenas, Salvadoran American activist

Fr. Richard Estrada, Priest in the LA Episcopal Diocese, immigration and human rights activist

Rev. Richard Wulf, Pastor, Echo Park United Methodist Church

Ernesto de la Loza, muralist

Wednesday, Jan. 11^th, 6:30 PM - Your attendance is critical at the next organizing meeting at Echo Park United Methodist Church, 1226 N. Alvarado, just off Sunset in L.A.  Bring your friends, ideas, and donations!

Thursday - Friday, Jan 12-13 Walk Out!
In So Cal and throughout the country - middle schools, high school, colleges and universities:  Walk Out!  Jan 12-13 - a massive mobilization of students.  We are millions!  Our only recourse now is to act outside normal channels.  Oppose the white supremacy of Trump-Pence, their attacks on immigrants, Trump's crude degrading of women and his utter contempt for scientific truth and facts.  Walk Out!  Hit The streets!  No Business As Usual!

Saturday Jan 14 LA City Hall 200 N. Spring St LA 90012 starting at 12 noon - 

GET IN THE STREETS AND DON'T LEAVE

Martin Luther King weekend - we take action to highlight and raise determined opposition to the white supremacist, American chauvinist, religiously bigoted character of this fascist movement and regime.  Starting Saturday, Jan 14, at LA City Hall we draw forward everything thus far built, and build further.  WE ARE CALLING FORWARD MILLIONS - WE ARE CALLING FORWARD YOU, and YOU organize others who organize others.  We plan to STAY in the streets, encamp at LA City Hall, to demand Trump-Pence be prevented from taking office before Jan 20.  Our actions in LA are part of nationwide actions, with the focus on millions in DC.  #FloodDC

Your donations and fundraising are urgently needed!

Contribute to the national fund drive to reach the $100,000 goal for major ads in newspapers and on-line publications.  

And/or donate to the local fund drive for the #NoFascistUSA car caravan from LA to DC, and for all of the posters, flyers, stickers, and banners to spread this movement throughout SoCal.  Ask friends, colleagues, and family to match your donations!

Update:

This weekend the #NoFascistUSA car caravan to DC got a send-off from LA! Next stop Arizona, as they head to Washington, DC to be part of bringing DC to a halt.

In addition, teams went to the Palm Springs Film Festival, the Golden Globes, Orange County storekeepers, and churches.  An artist is creating powerful No! banners using stencils, so contact us if you want to work with him.  One highlight was meeting a father and son who just heard about RefuseFascism on the radio, and stopped by the office last night at 11 PM after driving from San Diego County to deliver No! car magnets for the car caravan, plus two beautiful English and Spanish banners, stickers, t-shirts and hats that they donated. They took a big stack of posters and flyers to distribute back in their area.  

Send your photos and short reports on what you are doing to Stop the Trump/Pence Regime Before It Starts! to the national office at RefuseFascism@gmail.com, and to the local office at RefuseFascismLA@gmail.com.  We look forward to hearing from you!

In Southern California?  

Contact us at 323.946.1742 or refusefascismLA@gmail.com to get involved. 

You are needed!