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Sam Goldman talks with political scientist Anthony DiMaggio about Trump's fascism and what people of conscience need to do about it. Read his article Can We Call It Fascism? Trump’s Voter Suppression Project, 2020 on Counterpunch.org.
Connect with the movement to oust Trump at RefuseFascism.org, and read the plans for this week here. Tune in to the @RefuseFascism livestream event Sunday night at 7pm EST on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to learn about Refuse Fascism's plan for the election and how you can organize people into the streets whatever happens.
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Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
Writer and filmmaker Andrea Chalupa (@andreachalupa), co-host of Gaslit Nation podcast, talks with Sam Goldman (@SamanthaGoldm19) about the Trump crime family, the crucial need for mass mobilization to stop the consolidation of fascism in the United States, and the critical next few days in the countdown to Nov. 3 and the following week.
Connect with the movement to oust Trump at RefuseFascism.org, and read the plans for this week here. Tune in to the @RefuseFascism livestream event Sunday night at 7pm EST on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to learn about Refuse Fascism's plan for the election and how you can organize people into the streets whatever happens.
Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
Sam Goldman (@samanthagoldm19) talks with Rose Marie Berger about the strategy and power of non-violent resistance as we count down the days to the 2020 election and resist Trump's coup. Find further resources for non-violence trainings linked from Sojourners magazine. Then, Sam outlines some of the important plans posted on RefuseFascism.org for this weekend and the critical days next week during and after the election.
Rose Marie Berger, senior editor at Sojourners magazine, is a Catholic peace activist and poet. Her article “Seven concrete steps to safeguard the integrity of the vote” in the November issue of Sojourners magazine, along with “In the Event of Tainted Election, the Faith Community Must Rise Up” by Barbara Williams-Skinner and Adam Russell Taylor, focuses on post-election defense of the vote and strategic nonviolence in the event of a power grab by either presidential candidate. As part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International to return nonviolence to the heart of the Catholic Church, Rose co-edited Advancing Nonviolence and Just Peace in the Church and World. Her most recent book of poetry is Bending the Arch: Poems. Her earlier book, Who Killed Donte Manning: The Story of an American Neighborhood is set in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where she lives. Follow Rose on Twitter at @RMBerger and @Sojourners.
Sign up and help organize to resist the Trump coup at RefuseFascism.org. Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court - appointed explicitly and illegitimately to cast a deciding vote in the expected contest over the election results. Coco Das (@Coco_Das) talks to writer, activist and professor Ashley Dawson (@ashleydawsonnyc) about his recent article for The Guardian, where he writes: "According to the civil rights activist George Lakey, planning to defeat a coup can actually help reduce the chances of attempts to overthrow democracy."
Protests continue around the country this week. Find one near you at RefuseFascism.org. Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
Trump is already stealing the election. We need to vote, but Trump will not be stopped just by voting. This is the time to be in the streets demanding Trump/Pence Out Now! Public Assemblies were held around the country yesterday to mobilize, strategize and organize to demand Trump/Pence now as we approach the election.
JOIN US Monday, October 26: 5:00pm at the Supreme Court to say:
Theocracy + Stealing Election = Fascism
No Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett: TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW
Andy Zee speaks at the public assembly in LA yesterday, then Samantha Goldman (@SamanthaGoldm19) talks with journalist and historian Paul Street, whose new book is The Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and Politics of Appeasement.
Find a protest near you at RefuseFascism.org. Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
On the heels of Women's Marches across the country that opposed the confirmation of nominee to the Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett, we're sharing a segment from Sunsara Taylor (The RNL Show on YouTube, @SunsaraTaylor on Twitter) covering the hearings so far. Amy Coney Barrett is an extreme Christian fundamentalist who is expected to rubber stamp a host of fascist measures, but also a key part of the plot to keep Trump in power by any means necessary.
Then, Sunsara interviews Mark Joseph Stern, writer on courts and the law for Slate.com. Read his recent piece What the Right-Wing Dark-Money Machine Did for Amy Coney Barrett and follow him on Twitter @mjs_DC.
Find a protest near you at RefuseFascism.org. Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
Since October 3, daily protests have been ongoing around the country demanding Trump/Pence Out Now. Plus, this week the fascist nominee to the Supreme Court hearings are happening this week (join in protests - details at refusefascism.org).
Samantha Goldman (@SamanthaGoldm19) talks with organizer Ejeris Dixon (@ejeris), Director of Vision Change Win, about the threat that the fascist Trump/Pence regime poses to all human beings and the need for solidarity and coalition building to confront and defeat fascism before it is completely consolidated.
Find a protest near you at RefuseFascism.org. Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
Daily protests continue around the country demanding Trump/Pence Out Now (details at refusefascism.org). Andy Zee, co-initiator of Refuse Fascism talks with philosopher and author of "How Fascism Works" Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) about where we're at in the development of fascism in the United States, the urgent need for protest and the rolling coup/election month (not day). This discussion was originally streamed by Revolution Books and the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Find a protest near you at RefuseFascism.org. Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
We face a rolling coup barreling to a showdown on November 3rd. The Trump/Pence regime has said and shown that they will not abide by an election they lose. Now we must act. Beginning Saturday, October 3rd, gather and bring your family, friends, and community into the public squares of cities and towns across the country in non-violent protest unified by the demand: Trump/Pence OUTNOW! And, come back in waves, day after day.
Read the full call to action and find a protest near you at RefuseFascism.org.
Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
Coco Das talks with Houston teacher and activist Jamilah, and a friend of Anthony Huber (Black Lives Matter protester murdered by a 17 yr old white supremacist in Kenosha, WI) talks to a Chicago activist.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing intensifies the urgent need to get in the streets to drive out the Trump/Pence regime as we speed toward an election that is being stolen. RefuseFascism.org is calling for protests on the day marking the 200,000 death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. on September 21: March Against Death, Lies, and Fascism and For Humanity, and for the start of daily protests demanding Trump/Pence Out Now starting October 3. Find out more and get involved at RefuseFascism.org.
Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:
Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.
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