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TODAY, September 7, 3 pm
Press conference to announce the Saturday 9/9 Tinley Park Protest of Jason Aldean’s “Try It in a Small Town” Lynching Anthem,
Plaza at 37th St. & S. Langley Ave., Ida B Wells National Monument
Protest Saturday September 9:
Call Out Fascist Lynch Mob Instigator
Jason Aldean
Join us: 6pm
@ 191st & OAK PARK Ave,
TINLEY PARK (passenger drop off here)
Shuttle available @ Arby's In Brookside Marketplace Mall
7212 191st St.
TODAY, September 7, 3 pm
Press conference to announce the Saturday 9/9 Tinley Park Protest of Jason Aldean’s “Try It in a Small Town” Lynching Anthem,
Press Conferene at Plaza at 37th St. & S. Langley Ave., Ida B Wells National Monument
Protest on Sat., Sept 9, 6 pm,
@ 191st St. & OAK PARK Ave,
TINLEY PARK (passenger drop off here) Shuttle available
@ Arby's In Brookside Marketplace Mall 7212 191st St.
Jason Aldean’s mega hit, “Try That in a Small Town,” is a vicious expression of America’s lynch mob tradition. As Ida B. Wells said in a speech here in Chicago, “Our country’s national crime is lynching.”* With over 200 million views online, Aldean’s song glorifies and promotes that “national crime” again today. It gives expression to a whole move by fascists, led by but not limited to Trump and the Republicans, to bring back those “good ol’ days” of undisguised white supremacist, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant violence and repression that Ida B. Wells devoted her life to exposing and opposing.
Speakers at the press conference will describe why this song and its popularity pose an immediate threat. Jason Aldean is coming to the Chicago area in the wake of the murder of three people by a Nazi mass shooter in a Jacksonville, FL, General Dollar store simply for being Black. A week earlier, shop owner Lauri Carlton was assassinated for flying a gay pride flag in a California “small town.” While Aldean did not directly cause those murders, he is guilty of celebrating and promoting a whole mindset that murders like these grow out of, historically AND right now.
 Speakers:
Leo Pargo, Revolution Club Chicago, initiator of protest
Rafael Kadaris, member of the National Revolution Tour, correspondent with the RNL (Revolution Nothing Less) Show
Paul Street, journalist and author, most recently “This Happened Here; Amerikaners, Neo-Liberals and the Trumping of America”
Tio Hardiman, CEO Violence Interrupters, host on WVON radio
Fred J. McGee, musician and performer whose son, a well-known rapper, was killed by the police.
Fr. Bob Bossie, SCJ
Rachel Wachstein, lifelong Holocaust educator, social justice activist
The speakers will call on everyone who is sick and tired of all the racist, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant violence to join the protest Saturday, 6 pm, 191st St. Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park.
The Revolution Club Chicago says:
No More Lynch Mobs In and Out of Uniform!
No More Standing by while “Good Ol’ Boys” Prepare for Civil War!
We Need and We Demand a Whole New Way to Live. We Need to and We ARE Organizing for a Real Revolution!
*“Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal.”
From a speech delivered by Ida B. Wells in Chicago, 1900.
We received this statement from a lifetime Holocaust educator, Rachael Wachstein, in support of the protest against Jason Aldean's event in Tinley Park Saturday 9/9
Take this to heart and join us Saturday, Sept. 9, 6 pm
at 191st St.& Oak Park Ave.
Contact revclubchi@gmail.com for directions, ride shares, etc.
click here for Facebook event link
We stand together in the face of the new American fascism to shine a light on a dangerous demagogue, Jason Aldean. He’s not the leader of a political movement nor a politician, but his words and what he stands for feed the beast of American fascism.
His song, “Try That in a Small Town,” is a dog whistle for every white man who longs for the good ol’ days when gays stayed closeted or ended up dead, women were subjugated to the kitchen, and mob justice left African Americans hanging from trees across our nation. The singer performed his song in front of a courthouse located in Columbia, Tennessee, the site of a 1927 lynching and a 1946 race riot. The lyrics reference “good ol’ boys,” ready to fight criminals who disrespect cops and the American flag.
In recent memory, we recall what happened when such dog whistles were made to white Christian nationalists from a national platform, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” which led to increased violence in our streets and the near toppling of our democracy through a violent insurrection.
As students of history, we know the terrifying results of criminalizing and dehumanizing minorities. We know that fascism leads to a fate worse than death. When we say Never Again, we mean it. We will not let fascism take root and grow in our American democracy. Not now. Not ever.
Make no mistake, Jason Aldean is a fascist brute calling on other like-minded people to take up arms against anyone they deem “unAmerican”. Through his music, he normalizes hate and intolerance as American values, which they are not. The First Amendment may protect hate speech, but mobilizing a lynch mob is not protected.
Rachael Wachstein is a lifetime Holocaust educator and a resident of Highland Park who organized actions against fascist policies of the Trump administration. She was present at the July 4th parade in Highland Park when well-known Trump follower Robert Crimo III allegedly shot and killed seven people.
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