Support the Freeway 9 and Refuse Fascism; #Freeway9 Lawyer Damon Alimouri; Playwright Geraldine Inoa, Scraps
Chantelle and Coco Das on The #Freeway 9 and a Special Evening of Conscience and Culture:
On June 28th, a mistrial was declared in the case against two Refuse Fascism and Revolution Club members who were part of two separate groups that shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles with a 50-foot banner demanding the Trump/Pence regime must go in late 2017. The very next court day, the City Attorney doubled down and announced that they would re-try the defendants, even though a large majority of the jurors refused to convict, .
We'll speak with Chantelle, one of the Freeway 9, and Coco Das, a contributing editor to RefuseFascism.org, about the significance of the attacks on Refuse Fascism, and the importance of an upcoming Evening of Conscience and Culture. (See below)
Attorney Damon Alimouri, Lawyer for One of the Freeway 9
We'll also hear an interview with Damon Alimouri, the lawyer for one of the Freeway 9 on the case, and why he got involved.
Geraldine Inoa, Scraps
The New York Times wrote about Scraps, "Geraldine Inoa’s bracing and intense new play “Scraps” is about lives cut short by police violence, and the cataclysmic harm those killings do to the people left behind. But it’s also about the asphyxiating constriction of living while black in a society whose notions of acceptable behavior hinge on race: a narrow set of rules for black people, a far more forgiving one for whites." We'll sit down with Geraldine Inoa. |
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From RefuseFascism-SoCal:
An Evening of Conscience
Free the #Freeway9 and #UCLA5
It's right to sound the alarm against fascism!
Sunday, July 21, 5-7pm
Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Blvd, (Wilshire and Berendo), LA 90010
Participants so far include: Cecil L. “Chip” Murray; Stephen Rohde, Chair of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace and retired civil rights lawyer; Rev. Frank Wulf, Pastor in Charge, Echo Park United Methodist Church; Isabel Cardenas, Salvadoran-American Community Activist and co-initiator, Refuse Fascism; Reg E. Gaines, poet and playwright.
When your government is being run by an OPEN white supremacist, torturing immigrants in concentration camps, gutting the rule of law, taking away the right to abortion... consolidating a fascist America... Should you do nothing? Or should you stop business as usual? The #Freeway9 and #UCLA5 are facing criminal charges for blocking the 101 Freeway in the Fall of 2017 and for disrupting the fascist Steve Mnuchin at UCLA in the Spring of 2018. These actions – for which the defendants are facing years in jail and several thousand dollars in fines – were aimed at sounding the alarm against the Trump/Pence Fascist regime, responding to a call from Refuse Fascism for a movement of millions to drive this regime from power through mass, sustained, nonviolent protest in the streets.
This is the only way to stop this nightmare.
It’s not enough to hate what's happening: choose what side you're on, or history will choose for you. Join us for an evening of conscience, illuminating the stakes of these cases, the dangerous precedents being set, why these heroes should be defended and what it means to act commensurate with the dangers to humanity posed by the Trump/Pence fascist regime.
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For more information on this case, including the recent mistrial and hung jury, the pattern of political suppression, the LAPD spying and more, go to RefuseFascism.org
* Monday, July 22 - 8:30 am - Dept 62, Metropolitan Courthouse, 1945 S. Hill Street
Pack the courtroom for pre-trial hearing for two of the defendants, Chantelle and Alex, whose first trial ended with a hung jury. LA City Attorney, Mike Feuer, has doubled down and they are going ahead with a second trial which could start as early as July 25.* Watch this inspiring 1 minute video.
* Sign the petition to Demand: Drop the Charges!
* For more on the dangerous precedent being set by the prosecution, read: Some Observations on the Declared Mistrial of the Freeway 9 Defendants: This Fight Is Not Over! The Stakes Are Great for All Those Who Hate This Regime, and Who Wish for a Better World
For more information: Refuse Fascism LA 323.946.1742 RefuseFascismLA@gmail.com
Recommended:Outdoor Film Screening: "The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go"
Saturday, July 20 @ 8 PM
Sunset Triangle Plaza
1503–1515 GRIFFITH PARK BLVD, Los Angeles 90026A Film of a Talk by 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." Concentration camps at the border...
Tanks in the capitol...
A regime that could destroy civilization
You think you know...but you don't
If you are agonizing about what must be done
YOU need to watch this speech. |
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Last week, the LA Times, Guardian and other mainstream media outlets reported about the LAPD's suppression and surveillance of members of Refuse Fascism and the Revolution Club in the cases of the #Freeway9 and #UCLA5. At a meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission, LAPD Chief Moore said that there were “allegations of people who identified with political action groups but were also identified as being involved with criminal acts including arson, vandalism, assault with a deadly weapon and those types of criminal acts…” These are dangerous lies.
The #Freeway9 and #UCLA5 are heroes facing criminal charges for blocking the 101 Freeway in the Fall of 2017 and for disrupting the fascist Steve Mnuchin at UCLA in the Spring of 2018. These actions – for which the defendants are facing years in jail and several thousand dollars in fines – were aimed at sounding the alarm against the Trump/Pence Fascist regime, responding to a call from Refuse Fascism for a movement of millions to drive this regime from power through mass, sustained, nonviolent protest in the streets.
This book tells the story of the Los Angeles Police Department, from the Watts Rebellion of 1965, to the 1992 Spring Rebellion. When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment discrimination, residential segregation, and poverty. But the more immediate grievance was anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department. Yet in the decades after Watts, the LAPD resisted all but the most limited demands for reform made by activists and residents of color, instead intensifying its power.
