Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Received from Revolution Club, Chicago


March in South Shore: Sunday August 2, 4pm
Meet Outside Revolution Club Organizing Center 1857 E 71st
Feds Out of Chicago and Portland!
No Fascist Police State! Trump/Pence Out Now!
This System Has No Future for the Youth!
The Revolution Does!
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We are at a serious crossroad. A fierce struggle for the future is underway. The powerful uprising for Black lives and for an end to police terror has shaken the country, terrifying the powers-that-be. Now the fascist Trump is threatening to take over cities where (according to Trump) Democratic Governors and Mayors are not bringing down enough violence on the people to crush this rebellion.
In Portland Trump and the DOJ have brought in a federal paramilitary force. These pigs, in military camo with no ID, have targeted protesters -- dragging them off the streets into unmarked vans. The people of Portland who have been in the streets for over 60 days straight have not backed down and many more people are joining them.
Now, in Chicago, Trump is using the violence among the people as an excuse to send a “Surge” of 200 feds against the people. Trump used military talk and wartime terminology borrowed from Iraq and Afghanistan in announcing this plan, making it clear that he and those around him see Black people in places like Chicago as the enemy. The Feds will be putting people on lists to be arrested and locked up on Federal charges, violating their basic legal rights -- with more to come.
Facing this crossroad, we call to the youth killing and dying on the streets of Chicago: The time is NOW to raise your sights above the degradation and madness, above the dog eat dog individual struggle to survive and “be somebody” on the terms of this murdering system. As Noche Diaz, a leader of the National Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour who spent several years building the movement for revolution in Chicago said:
“ We in the Revolution Club are grieving over lost loved ones, and grieving with our friends and comrades who have also lost family in the recent wave of shootings in Chicago... But we will not let hurt become despair, or let the pain and anger be turned into a weapon against the people. Our comrades [in Chicago], and in the Clubs everywhere, are fighting hard to win people—yes, even and especially those who right now have their guns pointed at each other or have only revenge on their mind—to the emancipating outlook, methods, goals, and morality of this revolution based on the scientific understanding and strategy developed by Bob Avakian. This is something really worth living and fighting for: a revolution that can leave a much better world for ALL humanity, where ALL our children can grow up with the future they truly deserve.”
Join us Sunday, Aug 2 in the streets of South Shore.
Revolution Club, Chicago • 312-804-9121 • revclubchi@gmail.com • @revclubchi
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Friday, July 24, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago

TOMORROW, Saturday, 
JULY 25 12 PM – 2 PM

Rally and March
No Fascist Police State, Trump/Pence OUT NOW

Federal Plaza, 219 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL
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Protest Trump's Gestapo
NO TERRORIZING BLACK COMMUNITIES
NO FASCIST POLICE STATE
TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW!


Trump's fascist military war on the people, starting in Portland and now coming to Chicago, will only be ramped up if we don’t stop and drive them out - there is no "back to normal" & we cannot ignore or wait out fascism!

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Bring your congregation, your organization, your family - all who want an end to this regime are welcome to represent!

Stay in the streets, bring others with you - demand #TrumpPenceOutNow
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Protest the Federal Crackdown on Portland!
**WEAR A MASK and PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING!**
 
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In an ominous escalation of fascism, the Trump/Pence regime sent federal agents from multiple agencies to storm the streets of Portland, Oregon and crush ongoing protests. He is now deploying them to positions across the country, including here in Chicago, targeting those who dare to defy this regime and Democratic-run cities with large populations of Black people.

In the United States the federal government now commands rapid deployment forces that can be sent to suppress protest or take over as “law enforcement” for any reason the regime deems necessary. They are deployed and commanded by a fascist lunatic, heading into an election. If NOW isn’t the time to be in the streets nonviolently demanding the immediate ouster of this regime, when IS?

In Portland these agents rolled up in unmarked vans, dressed in camouflage with no identifying insignia, arrested people without telling them where they were going or why they were being taken into custody, deployed tear gas, and shot one non-violent protester in the face.

This is what Trump is expanding through the Department of Justice’s Operation Legend and Homeland Security’s Protecting America Communities Taskforce (PACT). Trump and Barr have accused the uprising for Black Lives and Sanctuary cities for the recent surge in murders, to justify sending his paramilitary nationwide - immediately to Kansas City, Chicago, and Albuquerque followed by Detroit, Baltimore, and Milwaukee. He has also threatened New York City, Philadelphia, and Oakland.

Further terrorizing Black youth is a focal point of this effort. Trump has demonized Black youth for

decades, calling for the execution of the Central Park 5 – 5 Black and brown youth railroaded into a conviction and later exonerated. Even after exoneration Trump continues to say that they should be in jail. In the midst of the current historic upsurge to hold police to account for murder, brutality and criminalization shaking loose local concessions, the Trump/Pence Regime seeks to reassert violent white supremacy and exact revenge on those who rose up.

This is a dress rehearsal for full-out militarized fascist police state, NOT political theater. It is a dangerous advance from a regime that has declared their determination to crush the opposition and hammer in their rule by terror and brute force.

America is at a serious crossroads. A fierce struggle for the future is underway. Camouflaged agents that look virtually indistinguishable from right-wing militias, free to kidnap and detain anyone at their will, is a horror that must be stopped now.

Fascism has direction and momentum. Dissent is piece by piece criminalized. The truth is bludgeoned. Group after group is demonized and targeted along a trajectory that leads to real horrors. All of this has taken dramatic leaps under the Trump Regime. History has shown that fascism must be stopped before it becomes too late. If we lose the right to protest – by legal or extralegal means – all bets are off.

Trump is not “losing an election.” He is setting the stage to declare any outcome other than his victory illegitimate, backed up by a GOP willing to rig elections and the violence of the “police, military, and bikers for Trump” to attack and suppress any opposition to their program. Waiting for November to remove Trump is like waiting for rain when a house is on fire.


As Trump unleashes his secret police, what will you do? Will you accept a fascist America? Will you stand aside hoping that politics as usual will remove a regime that is subverting elections and using the military to crush dissent and further terrorize Black people? Or will you join us in the streets and stay in the streets to demand Trump Pence Out Now!

Dangerous regimes all over the world have been driven out by the people in sustained, non-violent protest demanding the removal of the regime and refusing to go home until their demand is met. To stop an American fascism that threatens the very future of humanity and the planet, the necessary demand is Trump Pence Out Now! We must not stop until our demand is won.


This nightmare must end:
The Trump/Pence regime must go NOW
In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America
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Saturday, July 18, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago

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No Secret Police Arresting Protesters!
No ICE Vigilantes!
No Police Violence against Protesters!
Justice for Miracle Boyd and all protesters abused and arreste
d!
Emergency Protest
Monday July 20 5pm
Federal Plaza
March to Trump Tower
Trump Gestapo in Portland must be met with mass protest in the streets!
NO to ICE training programs for vigilantes!
Stop Police Violence Against  Protesters!
Justice for Miracle Boyd and all protesters abused and arrested!
NO Fascist Police State
NO Fascist Military War on the People
In the name of humanity, we REFUSE to accept a fascist America!

TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW!
 
Video footage from Portland, Oregon posted online late Thursday showed unidentified federal officers dressed in combat fatigues arresting Black Lives Matter protesters without explanation and throwing them into unmarked vehicles. Oregon Public Broadcasting reported Thursday that “federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14.” As one civil rights attorney, said, “It’s like stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay.” This is the American Gestapo. This is fascism. This is a dry run for the Trump/Pence regime to consolidate a fascist America. This cannot be allowed
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Joining in the clampdown, Chicago Police brutalized protesters and media on Friday night (July 17) as over 1000 people gathered to protest white supremacy and police brutality.  One protester, 18-year-old Good Kids Mad City activist Miracle Boyd, was beaten on the face by a Chicago cop resulting in numerous broken teeth for filming people trying to remove a statue of Columbus.

This goes hand and glove with ICE's announced plans to operate a
"citizens academy" in Chicago that is a training camp for vigilantes who will participate in "exercises ... including, but not limited to defensive tactics, firearms familiarization, and targeted arrests." This is another step toward a police state terrorizing our immigrant siblings and we say NO!

Everyone is needed to flood the streets to demand, “No Fascist Police State! #TrumpPenceOutNow!”

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Received from the Revolution Club Chicago

MESSAGE FROM THE
REVOLUTION CLUB 

to the youth killing and dying on the streets of Chicago:

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ENGLEWOOD MARCH: SATURDAY JULY 11, 3PM
MEET AT 55TH AND RACINE
SOUTH SHORE MARCH: SUNDAY JULY 12, 4PM
MEET OUTSIDE REVOLUTION CLUB ORGANIZING CENTER
1857 E 71ST, CHICAGO
Raise your sights above the degradation and madness, above the dog eat dog individual struggle to survive and be somebody on the terms of this system. There’s truly something worth living and dying for: putting an end to this murderous system and bringing into being a whole new world so future generations are not condemned to more of the same.
Get with the Revolution and the Leadership of Bob Avakian
This System Can’t Be Reformed, It Must Be Overthrown
Revolution Nothing Less!

The Revolution Club calls on you to join us to march and rally through areas where this violence among the people is raging to get youth out of the mess they are caught up in and into what is really needed—organizing now to Get Ready for the Time When Millions Can be Led to Go for Revolution, All-Out, With a Real Chance to Win.
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Revolution Club, Chicago 312-804-9121
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Saturday, July 4, 2020

Received from Refuse Fascism

Trump/Pence Must Go Now - Chicago Protest July 4

Today at 2 PM – 5 PM
Logan Square

America is at a serious crossroads. A fierce struggle for the future is underway.

Trump is campaigning on openly celebrating and defending the Confederacy, with a clear message that he will unleash the violence of the police and military and his heavily armed MAGA shock troops against the movement for Black Lives.

He threatens to toss aside the 1st Amendment to jail those who burn the flag, a constitutionally protected act of free speech.

He has demeaned mayors of Chicago and Seattle while threatening to send in federal forces “to clean up” their cities; He has doubled down on his anti-immigrant rants and program.


In the midst of skyrocketing deaths from COVID-19, the Trump/Pence regime petitioned the Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare. In his press briefing, Pence urged Americans to pray but did not once urge them to wear masks. The regime has the blood of tens of thousands on its hands who have perished due to the regime’s science-hating, genocidal dismissal of a global pandemic.

This is just in the past week. Stop and think if you can live with all this. The lives of countless more here and around the world are under threat.

Trump is not losing an election. He is setting the stage to declare any outcome other than his victory illegitimate, backed up by a GOP willing to rig elections and the violence of the “police, military, and bikers for Trump.” He is declaring his determination to prevail.

The people on the side of humanity must be equally determined to prevail. On July 4th and in the coming weeks, we must take to the streets in growing numbers to demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must GO!

Should we fail to take to the streets and stay to win, do not for a second think that the fascist agenda of the Trump/Pence regime could not become the law of the land. But the last four weeks of sustained protest has also shown us that another future is possible – if the demand that Trump and Pence must go now becomes a part of the great rising in the streets against police murder of Black people. Without going all the way to driving out the Trump/Pence regime, the movement for Black lives and every struggle for justice will be crushed.

On this July 4, take to heart the words of the escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass: If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. …Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Genocide, slavery, the Confederacy, Jim Crow … virulent white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia … an American empire that has invaded, subjugated, bombed and occupied countries around the world.

This is the history and these are the values of Make America Great Again, hell-bent on exacting revenge
against the liberation movements of the 1960s and the hard-won social progress of the last 50 years – social progress that was only made possible by people courageously taking to the streets and refusing to back down.

The upsurge of struggle for Black Lives matters a great deal. It must continue to broaden and deepen its determination to win, which includes acting on the recognition that an avowed white supremacist regime poses a mortal threat to Black people and must be driven from power. Refuse Fascism, since its founding has recognized and struggled for the understanding that at the core of the fascist regime is white supremacy. Along with hatred of immigrants and women and differently gendered people, these form a triad of the fascist program that must be opposed.

At this crossroads, what will you do? Will you continue to accept a fascist America? Will you listen to those who urge waiting until November for an election that may not come, or working within the normal channels that are being shredded by a regime that sees this as their last chance to consolidate power. Or will you seize on our power in the streets and raise the demand Trump/Pence Out Now? Dangerous regimes all over the world are driven out by the people in sustained, non-violent protest demanding the removal of the regime and refusing to go home until their demand is met.

To stop an American fascism that threatens the very future of humanity and the planet, the necessary demand is Trump Pence Out Now! This is a moment to seize. Let us change the course of history, not for ourselves alone but for all humanity.

This nightmare must end.
The Trump/Pence regime must go.
TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW!

#BlackLivesMatter #TrumpPenceOutNow #TrumpResignNow

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Received from The Revcoms


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The Revolution Nothing Less Show
Episode 15: This Thursday Night 7 pm CDT

I'm writing to let you know about something you don't want to miss. On Thursday, July 2, an interview I did with Chuck D of Public Enemy will be aired in Episode #15 of the RNL Show – the Revolution Nothing Less show – on the Revcoms YouTube channel. In this interview, Chuck talks about the video PE just dropped: State of the Union: Shut the Fuck Up! He gets into why now, in the midst of the nationwide and worldwide upsurge calling for an end to police murder of Black people and of white supremacy overall, was the time to release this song which lays bare the illegitimacy of the fascist Trump/Pence regime.
This interview will be part of the special July 4th episode of this weekly show (#15), which will also feature a quote from the speech given on July 4, 1852, by Frederick Douglass: "What to the American Slave Is Your 4th of July;” and a challenge from Joey Johnson to respond to Trump's threats to re-criminalize flag burning by burning that rag on July 4th.
You need to watch the interview I do with Chuck D on the RNL Show this week, and you need to make a point of watching the RNL Show every week (Thursdays 9 PM EDT), especially if you're somebody who hates the terror police perpetrate again and again on Black and Brown people and all the other horrors this system forces humanity to endure and want to see them ended once and for all.
Hit me back with your thoughts off of the interview, off of the Public Enemy video and off of the RNL Show.
Carl Dix
P.S. To view previous episodes of the RNL Show, click below.

click here to watch episode 14

Episode 14:
“As BA has posed: Radical Change Is Coming: Will It Be Emancipating, or Enslaving—Revolutionary, or Reactionary?”
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Episode 13:  "An End to Institutionalized Racism and Murder by Police--Nothing Less!"

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