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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

FRIDAY - The Michael Slate Show: Paul Street, Beyond Impeachment, Remove This Regime from Below. Plus, Andy Zee, December Disruptions -- #OUTNOW

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Friday, November 29, 2019
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show


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This week: 

Paul Street, Beyond Impeachment, Remove This Regime from Below

Paul Street wrote in "Beyond Impeachment, Remove This Regime from Below, "The best way to remove Trump is not merely through elite procedures designed by wealthy 18th Century slaveholders, merchant capitalists, and publicists for whom democracy was the ultimate nightmare. It is through a sustained mass rebellion by and for those the U.S. Founders and the American ruling class today fears most: We the People."

Andy Zee on #OUTNOW and December Disruptions

Andy Zee, co-initiator of Refuse Fascism, and member of the National Revolution Tour, joins us to talk about the next step for the #OUTNOW movement:There is no Santa Claus, and He Won't Remove Trump and Pence.

A month of flash protests, banner drops, rapidly responding to sharp political events, and other actions to disrupt the advance of fascism, disturb the normalization and complicity of those who oppose Trump/Pence but are passively going along, and build the movement to drive the regime from power.
 

Could it really happen here? Dialogue & teach-in @ UCLA - Dec. 4th

Could it really happen here?
Is the Trump/Pence Regime bringing American fascism?
Is silence complicity?
Dialogue and Teach-In

Wednesday, December 4
6:00 – 9:00pm

Franz 2258A, UCLA Campus
(across from the Faculty Center)

Zak Fisher, GSA President, third year law student
Jeffrey H. Solomon, Ph.D, Lecturer, Department of English, UCLA
Atlas Winfrey, National Tour to Get Organized for Revolution, Refuse Fascism & one of the UCLA5
Moderated by: Tala Deloria, UCLA alum, Revolution Club & one of the UCLA5
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The Trump/Pence Regime poses a catastrophic danger to humanity. Concentration Camps on the border…environmental devastation accelerated… the danger of war, even nuclear, threatened… white supremacy rules… fascist mobs and racist mass murderers… truth and science erased… the right to abortion near gone… theocracy threatened... the rule of law and democratic and civil rights are stripped away… THIS IS FASCISM UNFOLDING AND IN POWER.

Fascist speakers descend on college campuses, trying to crack strongholds of “liberal academia” and shut down critical thinking and dissent – with the Universities themselves paying hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes millions, for security. Trump threatens to cut off funding for campuses where there is meaningful protest against these fascist speakers and school administrators enact policies that shut down ANTI-fascist protest (UCLA is where Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was booed and where people protesting – the UCLA5 – were physically removed from their seats and arrested, dragged through the courts but ultimately acquitted). Recently, UCLA hosted Donald Trump, Jr. in what was the equivalent of a Klan rally with a crowd of hundreds of young fascists cohered around the myth of “white genocide,” organizing for a “white ethnostate.” These views, also held by Stephen Miller, are shaping Trump's immigration policies of ethnic cleansing. All while DACA hangs in the balance.

Is it right to call this a FASCIST regime? What is fascism? How would a fascist America impact the world? Is it a pendulum swing that can be stopped through elections or a different form of qualitatively more draconian rule that can only be stopped through mass, sustained, non-violent protest in the streets as put forth and initiated by the Call from RefuseFascism.org of #OUTNOW?  What role and responsibility do students have?

As young people, we are often asked what we want to be when we grow up, but we are never asked what kind of world we want to live in. This is the question we have to lift our sights to – beyond our cell phones and syllabi, beyond our personal aspirations: what's our responsibility to humanity and the planet?


Co-sponsored by Refuse Fascism, LA and Office of the GSA President, UCLA
Refuse Fascism, LA • 323.946.1742 • SoCal@refusefascism.org • @RefuseFascismLA • RefuseFascism.org

Thursday, November 21, 2019

FRIDAY - The Michael Slate Show w/ Michael Lynk on the Trump Regime and Israel; Andy Zee #OUTNOW; Atlas Winfrey, #CoulterProtests at Berkeley

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Friday, November 22, 2019
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show


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This week: 

Michael Lynk on the Trump Regime and Israeli Settlements; Andy Zee #OUTNOW; Atlas Winfrey, #CoulterProtests at Berkeley

Michael Lynk, Special UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, on US Support of Illegal Israeli Settlements
In response to this week's declaration of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who attempted to legitimize Israel's theft of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory, said:

“The American government’s decision to jettison international law and to legitimize the illegal Israeli settlements is probably the very last nail in the coffin of the two-state solution.”

This is part of a broad genocidal assault on the Palestinian people.

We'll talk with Dr. Lynk about the impact of the US decision, and the overall situation in the occupied territories.

Andy Zee on Mass Meetings on Driving the Trump-Pence Regime #OUTNOW!

Five weeks ago, #OUTNOW launched a movement demanding the Trump Pence Regime Must Go Now. There have been weekly protests in cities around the country. On November 16, a call was issued for mass meetings Sunday November 24, to develop plans to drive out the regime.

Making History Is NOT A Spectator Sport…
You Are Needed To Help Drive Out A Fascist Regime

If you are anguished by what the Trump/Pence regime has already done and filled with dread for the future, will you bury your hopes and conscience? Or, will you come out and make a real difference? NOW IS THE TIME.

We'll speak with Andy Zee, co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org, and member of the National Revolution Tour about the situation we're facing and the importance of these meetings.

Thousands Confront Nazi Ann Coulter at UC Berkeley

At UC Berkeley Wednesday night, thousands came out to oppose - and shut down - Ann Coulter. Fascists are organizing on campuses throughout the US, often, as at Berkeley, with the help of school administrators. At Berkeley, a number of groups, including Refuse Fascism,  organized a massive protest that blocked entrances, and confronted the police state that the administration and UC police imposed on the campus. One member of Refuse Fascism was arrested and brutalized inside the talk for shouting, "You're a fucking fascist," at Coulter. We'll hear from Atlas Winfrey of Refuse Fascism, one of the organizers of the protest.

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November 24, L.A. Mass Meeting - Trump/Pence #OutNow!


Sunday at 3 PM
Sepulveda Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City 90230

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Join us at these mass meetings, Sunday November 24, to develop the plans to drive out this regime. Your ideas are urgently needed – as is your active participation. If you are already in fighting against the regime or one of its many outrageous crimes, if you are involved with a candidate but also see the importance of mass protest now – then please bring your organization’s views and thinking into this meeting and/or set up a time for Refuse Fascism to talk with your group.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

NOW is the time for people to take to the streets

From RefuseFascism.org:
NOW IS THE TIME to TAKE to the STREETS to DEMAND:
TRUMP/PENCE #OUTNOW!
Saturday November 16 
In Los Angeles:  2 PM at MacArthur Park, 7th & Alvarado
In Santa Ana:  1 PM at 4th St. & Spurgeon


The Trump/Pence Regime poses a catastrophic danger to humanity.
Concentration camps on the border…Environmental devastation accelerated…Danger of war, even nuclear, threatened…White supremacy rules…Fascist mobs and racist mass murderers…Truth and science erased…Right to abortion near gone…Rule of law and democratic and civil rights are stripped away…THIS IS FASCISM UNFOLDING.

If you are anguished by what the Trump/Pence regime has already done and filled with dread for the future, will you bury your hopes and conscience? Or, will you join us in protest? Come on out and make a real difference. NOW IS THE TIME.
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In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!


Political lines are drawn. Impeachment hearings have begun.
We must not be spectators...it's time for the people to act.

THERE IS A WAY to REMOVE the TRUMP/PENCE REGIME


Public televised hearings to impeach Trump begin today. Sharp political lines are drawn with high stakes. Trump and Pence have ordered the Republicans to obstruct the hearings. Yet, the Democratic leadership has all but conceded that Trump will not be removed by the Senate.

What can change all of this? WE CAN – the power of the people taking to the streets in sustained non-violent protest raising one simple and unifying demand: Trump/Pence #OUTNOW! And then, continuing week after week all across the country growing in numbers and determination until this demand is met.
What can you do?
>>Find a protest or make your own
>>DONATE to spread #OutNOW. Only $3008 needed to reach first $50,000 goal.

Gather your friends, your school, place of worship, community, organization, and come out this Saturday. Spread the word. Let's show people in this country and the world that we will not adjust to the injustice and crimes of Trump and Pence. We will protest again and again until this regime is gone.

There's still a chance to stop a regime that imperils humanity and the planet.
Let’s stand together with conviction and courage overcoming fear and uncertainty, to struggle with all we've got to demand:


Trump/Pence #OUTNOW!

For more on the #OUTNOW Movement and RefuseFascism.org which initiated this movement, visit RefuseFascism.org

Wednesday #OutNOW Webinar November 13
9:00 pm EST 6:00 pm PST
Hear from leaders & organizers of #OutNOW protests, including people who have joined in the last 4 weeks.
We are all working on how to bring sustained, mass non-violent protest when it's needed most.
>>Register here.  You can view online, listen by phone, or view on Facebook Live


RefuseFascism.org national team
917 407 1286
DONATE TO STOP TRUMP / PENCE >

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

"Hope For Humanity On A Scientific Basis" - New from Bob Avakian

 From revcom.us:
 

Hope For Humanity
On A Scientific Basis

Breaking with Individualism,
Parasitism and American Chauvinism

 

Bob Avakian
Author of The New Communism

Prepublication copy
November 2019
This is an important new work by Bob Avakian, from which the excerpt "Individualism, BEB and the Illusion of 'Painless Progress,'" which has been posted on this site since the summer of 2019, has been drawn.
CONTENTS                              

 
Lack of real hope for a better life in this world is a heavy chain weighing down, suffocating and deeply scarring the masses of humanity, including the youth who are concentrated in the ghettos and barrios of this country as well as its overflowing torture chamber prisons. And the extreme individualism promoted throughout this society, the obsessive focus on “the self,” has reinforced the heavy lid on the sights of people, obscuring their ability to recognize the possibility of a radically different and better world, beyond the narrow and confining limits of this system, with all its very real horrors. These are the major questions I am going to be speaking to here.

Read this new work HERE.

Monday, November 11, 2019

The Revolution Tour needs YOUR support. Join the livestream today/Sunday

From revcom.us:

The Revolution Tour needs YOUR support.
Join the livestream, TODAY @ 2 pm PST.
$25,000 goal extended to November 15

At this moment when the whole political order in the country is being shaken to its roots and the fight to bring out millions into sustained protest to drive the fascist Trump/Pence regime from power is taking shape, the Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour is playing a critical role.  Its members are pouring their energies and understanding into the #OutNow! movement and at the same time inspiring people with their bold message that this nightmare of a system must be overthrown and that a whole different kind of world is possible and urgently needed. 
The Revolution Tour needs YOUR support.
Tune into the Livestream TODAY/Sunday @ 2pm PST – build the audience, spread it on social media, organize a group showing.  Send in video or written statements of support.
From around the country, individuals and groups have stepped forward to offer matching challenges.  We have 3 matching challenges totaling $2,180. Be part of donating and raising the funds to meet these challenges and bring forward the $11,454 still needed to meet the November 15th goal of $25,000.
Call (646) 717-7161 to donate, pledge or call in additional matching challenges.
WATCH LIVESTREAM ON FACEBOOK @TUNEINTOREVCOM.
Additional ways you can support the Tour:
  •  Become a sustainer and donate any amount from $5 to $500 a month to support the ongoing work of the Tour in carrying forward its mission.
  • Support a Tour member for a week with a donation of $250 or for a month with a donation of $1000 – help cover the costs of food, rent, transit and enable the Tour members to get out in the world with their message of revolution. 
  • Donate to the Revolution Tour Travel Fund: Write to tourmilestogofar@gmail.com with your donation of airline miles or funds to enable Tour members to travel to where they are most needed.

Friday, November 8, 2019

SUNDAY - Say NO to Trump Jr at UCLA ; SATURDAY - #OutNow! @ 7th & Alvarado; FRIDAY - The Michael Slate Show: Dread Scott, Slave Rebellion Reenactment

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Friday, November 8, 2019
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show


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This week: 

Dread Scott, Slave Rebellion Reenactment; Say NO to Trump Jr at UCLA #OUTNOW

Reenactment of the Largest Slave Rebellion in US History


We'll talk with revolutionary artist Dread Scott, who envisioned and organized the Slave Rebellion Reenactment.

Slave Rebellion Reenactment is a community-engaged artist performance and film production that, on November 8-9, 2019, will reimagine the German Coast Uprising of 1811, which took place in the river parishes just outside of New Orleans. Envisioned and organized by artist Dread Scott and documented by filmmaker John Akomfrah, Slave Rebellion Reenactment (SRR) will animate a suppressed history of people with an audacious plan to organize and seize Orleans Territory, to fight not just for their own emancipation, but to end slavery. It is a project about freedom.  

Say NO to Trump Jr at UCLA #OUTNOW!


#OUTNOW Invites you:

"Sunday, November 10, It's LA's turn to boo at a Trump! Donald Jr. is coming to UCLA campus to promote his new book THIS WEEKEND. It's up to all of us to show up and show the whole country that he is not welcome here in Los Angeles. Jr.'s book, titled "Triggered" aims to gaslight the dissenting public out of exercising our 1st Amendment right to free speech and assembly, but we invite you to come raise your voice and stand in solidarity against the crimes of this fascist first family."

We'll speak with a representative of Refuse Fascism.  (See details below.)

Join the Facebook Event
 

From RefuseFascism SoCal:
 

LA: Join us and Demand:
The Trump/ Pence Regime Must Go- NOW!

This Saturday, 2PM, MacArthur Park
7th & Alvarado
#OutNow! continues

Join the Facebook Event