Friday - Hear RefuseFascism defendant at ICUJP; Tuesday - State of the Union?! - Hell No! A Night of Refusal and Rejection of a Fascist America

Received from Refuse Fascism - LA: Friday, 7 - 9 AM (yes, AM) Join Interfaith Communities United for Justice & Peace's Friday Forum to hear Refuse Fascism speakers Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010 (Parking is in the back off of Berendo Street; enter through doors on Berendo) Twelve members of Refuse Fascism face criminal charges and up to seven years in prison for nonviolent political protest. Their cases which have yet to come to trial reveal a continuing pattern of coordinated governmental political surveillance, targeting, and persecution against Refuse Fascism and the Revolution Club in Los Angeles. The political demand to Stop the Persecution and Drop the Charges Against Refuse Fascism Activists is part and parcel of the fight to stop the danger that the Trump/Pence regime presents to humanity.  For over two years, RefuseFascism.org(RF) has worked tirelessly to arouse the millions in this country who hate and fear what this regime is doing to break out of politics-as-usual—organizing people from a diverse range of political views behind the single unifying demand: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! Joseph “Bo” Scogin runs with the Revolution Club and is also a member of Refuse Fascism. Bo enlisted in the U.S. military and was deployed to Iraq, first as part of “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in 2003 and later in 2007 as part of the U.S. “surge.”  He began searching for answers as he realized that the U.S. was not there to help the people in Iraq.  Several years ago Bo joined the Revolution Club, and  became an advocate of Bob Avakian’s “New Communism.”  As Bo stepped up efforts to contribute to an actual revolution in the U.S. he’s been targeted by law enforcement.  Bo was arrested at the April 14, 2015 National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality and Murder.  He was charged with serious felonies at the RNC in 2016 when police attacked a dramatic flag burning action seen by millions around the world (he was exonerated).  In January 2017, Bo volunteered to go to DC during the Trump inauguration, and was arrested along with 25 others for disrupting the confirmation hearing of Jeff Sessions as attorney general.  He is currently facing charges with 12 others for non-violent protests aimed at building a movement to drive out the fascist Trump/Pence regime, most notably at UCLA at a public challenge U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Rev. Frank Wulf is the pastor-in-charge at Echo Park United Methodist Church.  He is the former President of the University Religious Conference at UCLA and for 12 years was the Religious Director at the University of Southern California.  He is a member of Refuse Fascism and helps steer the national Faith Task Force of Refuse Fascism.  See Rev. Frank Wulf a the RefuseFascism.org Faith Weekend below.   State of the Union?! Hell No! A CALL for a Night of Refusal and Rejection of a Fascist America Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at 5:30 PM Meet at 7th St. / 110 Freeway overpass in Downtown Los Angeles  Refuse and Reject Trump’s State of the Union State of the Union?!  How about the state of HUMANITY? Enough of Trump and his fascist regime's assaults on our lives, here and around the world.  Enough of Trump's reign of terror and the escalating damage inflicted on the interconnected ecosystems of this planet. Enough!  Basta Ya! On Tuesday February 5: Don't sit watching by yourself, disgusted and outraged! Bounce from your home... and...flood the street corners in cities large and small to demand:  To The World's Migrants and All of Humanity: We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America!  The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!  No to Trump's Fascist Wall and their program of ethnic cleansing — NO TO ALL ATTACKS on immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers - a lynchpin and a battering ram of the Trump/Pence Regime's entire fascist program also targeting women, LGBTQ, the Black masses, people all over the world, science and the earth itself. And... Enough of the Democratic Party's complicity on "border security," family separation and asylum seekers. High tech drones, sensors, satellites, enhanced fencing and more border patrol agents is their plan for keeping immigrants out.  We also must reject this plan, since it also leads to atrocities and is complicit with Trump's program of ethnic cleansing.  We need sustained, nationwide protests and a society-wide struggle to remove the fascist Trump-Pence regime.  Making Trump's State of the Union an evening of #RefuseandReject can contribute to this. No more relying on saviors to oust a fascist regime and of passivity rooted in illusion, of failed predictions this fascist regime will self-implode any day or be swept aside by those at the top of this society.  No more of that!  Fascism can come to power through the ballot box but fascism cannot be voted out ~ the people must drive it from power. And... enough already of the the numbing television news promoting these illusions ~ of 'couch-lock' (passivity and quiescence) and the complicity of millions and millions ~ as a fascist horror unfolds daily and the Trump/Pence regime rapidly transforms society and government into an open terroristic dictatorship. On Tuesday before, during, and after the State of the Union, get onto street corners... let's take history into our own hands.   Let's drown them out and powerfully snatch the spotlight, with a massive and loud refusal and rejection of the entire fascist direction of this society and this world. In the name of humanity, THIS IS A CALL for a night of Refusal and Rejection of a Fascist America during Trump's State of the Union.  On the night of Trump's State of the Union, at 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central/7:00 pm Mountain/6:00 pm Pacific Time: Get your friends, colleagues and neighbors together and lets get the hell onto the streets, in two's three's twenty's and hundreds, with posters, banners, projections, noise-makers (pots and pans and musical instruments...) expressing our REFUSAL to Accept a Fascist America. And... let this night of Refusal and Rejection contribute to the time, in the not too distant future, when tens of thousands, in cities large and small, won't just protest for a day, or one night, but will come back out, day after day and night after night, growing our protest from thousands to millions, to the achieve the single, unifying objective of driving out the fascist Trump/Pence regime.  The people of the world are counting on us. RefuseFascism.org: So Cal: 323.946.1742; National: 917.407.1286