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
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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:
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.
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.
Junior, as recently documented in the NY Times, is often the source of Trump Senior's tweets from alt right figures who promote the idea of “white genocide” and “great replacement theories.” (Google those phrases!) And now this sledgehammer with a sneer is touring campuses with Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, a white power symbol flashing nazi who worked with Jr throughout the 2016 campaign. Turning Point USA is a Betsy De Vos/theocratic funded organization aimed at building a fascist student movement.