Friends,
Trump will attend the Army-Navy football game at M&T
Stadium at 3 PM on Saturday. A heavy security and police presence is
expected. Traffic will be heavy in the area.
My suggestion would be to meet at the Light Rail stop on
North Avenue around 1 PM. We could then take the Light Rail downtown and
demo from 2 to 3 PM. I have some signs, but it would be helpful if you could
make a sign addressing a specific concern about the president-elect
Let me know if this works for you or if you have an
alternate plan. Thanks for your interest. Note my cell phone number
is 727-543-3227.
Kagiso,
Max
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/08/silence-not-option-calls-grow-disrupt-trump-inauguration
Thursday, December 08, 2016
'Silence
Not an Option': Calls Grow to Disrupt Trump Inauguration
'The Majority have spoken—by nearly 2.7 million votes &
counting!' Michael Moore tweeted, linking to grassroots group's website
planning direct actions on January 20
"Trump
stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny," the group said. (Image:
disruptj20.org/with overlay)
The call
to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is growing with the help
of documentary filmmaker and activist Michael Moore, who on Wednesday tweeted a
grassroots group's plans for direct actions on January 20, 2017.
Although
Trump won the Electoral College, his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton took the
popular vote by more than 2 million—which means Trump will enter office with
low ratings and no mandate. Grassroots activists organizing a mobilization
known as #DisruptJ20 are
hoping to call attention to this dynamic through a series of protests, direct
actions, and other events on inauguration day.
"The
Majority have spoken—by nearly 2.7 million votes & counting! Silence is not
an option," Moore tweeted, adding a link to the group's website.
The
organizers, known as the D.C. Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee, "call
on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies. If Trump
is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the
true face of the security state Trump will preside over. It must be made clear
to the whole world that the vast majority of people in the United States do not
support his presidency or consent to his rule."
"Trump
stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny," they write. "He is the
champion of neo-nazis and white nationalists, of the police who kill the black,
brown, and poor on a daily basis, of racist border agents and sadistic prison
guards, of the FBI and [National Security Agency] who tap your phone and read
your email."
Moore,
who in July predicted Trump would win, said on Late Night With Seth
Meyers on Wednesday, "The majority of our fellow Americans do not
want him in the White House. The irony is unbearable."
In
addition to the #DisruptJ20 movement, the inauguration will be met with a women's march on Washington, with thousands of
people expected to join from all over the country to protest Trump's history of
misogyny, including bragging about sexually assaulting women.
The Guardian reported on Thursday that the National
Park Service filed documents on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration
Committee sealing off portions of the national mall and Pennsylvania
Avenue—meaning the women's march will not be able to hold a
rally at the Lincoln Memorial to echo historic civil rights and anti-war
actions. The "massive omnibus blocking permit" extends for days and
weeks before and after the inauguration itself.
Mara
Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice
Fund, said the blocking of access for days after the event was "extremely
unique."
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The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject
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