Echoes of Fascism That Has Left Tens of Thousands of People Gripped in the Terror of the Unforeseen by Henry Giroux, Reviewed by Stephen Rohde the Hold of Addiction

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UCLA Hammer Museum Dozens of panels are scheduled all three days, along with a major presentation by Sharon Kyle and Dick Price of the LA Progressive Oct 30, Neighborhood Sing and Eric Mann, Brigette Amaya and Channing Martinez of the Skid Row’s Community Jam Labor Community Strategy Center on “How the Racial, Social, and Climate Justice Movements Can Play an Oct 31, Change Links distro Peace Center Resistance and Decolonization in Puerto Independent Role in the 2020 Presidential Rico with Lawrence Reyes of the Puerto Election.” Other notable panels include a Rican Alliance, and several members of BIG PHARMA presentation on Cuba by recent visitors with the Puerto Ricans in Action, a group of younger Pastors for Peace Friendshipment and the 50th local Boricuas who have sparked great + BIG MONEY Venceremos Brigade; a panel on Uprooting activism in the diaspora. (For date info White Supremacy by Michael Novick of check 213.434.4643, visit their website Change Links, Candace Carnicelli, and Michele https://leftcoastforum.org) or email: = NO BLAME Dumont of White People for Black Lives; and [email protected] [col. Writ. 9/15/19 (c)2019 by Mumia Abu-Jamal a panel with Maureen Cruise and others from In recent days, we’ve heard of proposed Health Care for All about the impact of race on US health care.There is also a panel on Mass See: “Left Coast Forum,” p. 5 settlements in civil suits involving big pharmaceutical companies, the very sources of opioid products (like (c) OxyContin, for example), Echoes of Fascism that has left tens of thousands of people gripped in The Terror of the Unforeseen by Henry Giroux, reviewed by Stephen Rohde the hold of addiction. Excerpted with permission from the Los Angeles Review of Books. Similarly, these products have led to tens Full text at: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/echoes-of-fascism/ of thousands of deaths, some 70,000 annually, Nine years before the Civil War, the former enslaved person, according to some reports. and ardent abolitionist, Frederick Douglass condemned a No man or woman on Death Row has come nation for stubbornly clinging to the abomination of slavery close to such a tally, and no corporate exec, no in his blistering speech What to the Slave Is Your Fourth of matter his legal liability, has come even close to July? such a fate. “We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. This is especially vexing when we consider the ravages The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the Drug War, which has fueled mass incarceration for decades. of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must Young men, wearing hoodies and baseball caps turned be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its backwards, engaged in retail sales of untaxed drugs in the Frederick Douglass, woodcut crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.” ghetto and tenement streets of America. For this they have In The Terror of the Unforeseen, a timely and he is the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest. He begins audacious new book brimming with Douglass’s his new book by documenting Donald Trump’s dangerous seething anger, Henry A. Giroux wants to rouse and language and actions, emphasizing that Trump’s rhetoric is startle the conscience of the nation and denounce the hardly new; it matches what many historians report in the crimes it is committing. “Echoes of the formative rise of Nazism and fascism. Giroux then traces the domestic stages of fascism are with us once again,” Giroux origins of Trump’s policies to the neo-liberalism of the 1970s. writes, “and provide just one of the historical signposts Next he focuses on the dismantling of public education of an American-style neo-fascism that appears to and more broadly on the rise of anti-intellectualism and be engulfing the US after simmering in the dark for muzzling of open debate. In the face of such a dire portrait, years.” He is calling down fire, thunder, storms, and Giroux concludes by calling for a deeper, more galvanized whirlwinds. and interrelated resistance, and a radical transformation of Giroux, a prolific scholar and cultural critic, author capitalism, in order to restore our democracy. of more than 68 books and over 400 articles, papers, been attacked by police and federal agents with all the and chapters, teaches at McMaster University, where See: “Echoes of Fascism,” p. 11 ferocity of war. In fact, it was a war, and people were treated like enemies of the state, and cast into prison for at least 15th Many Winters Gathering Of Elders Oct. 10-13, San Pedro decades — some for Life. The Many Winters Gathering The Gathering will host and welcome Enter Big Pharma, which launched drugs upon America Of Elders (MWGOE) Indigenous elders from across on an industrial scale, and made billions to boot! Committee, in partnership Turtle Island to share oral traditions, Consider this simple fact: in one year, more Americans with Angels Gate Cultural teachings, and medicine. have died from corporate opioid products, than the number of Americans who died in Vietnam, after 10 years of war! Center (AGCC), is excited to Over the course of four days, For retail sellers of drugs, decades in prison await; announce the 15th MWGOE at speakers gather and share around a fire for wholesale drug merchants, civil suits are the state’s AGCC on October 10th – 13th. under a traditional arbor. The vision of responses. Located on traditional Tongva the Gathering is to host a sacred space Since when is the killing of thousands of people a civil territories, the MWGOE plays in an urban setting for people to come tort? a vital role in the LA Native together, with the intention to learn, When we witness the parameters of the Drug War, we see community’s healing, with the pray, support Indigenous and non- it had nothing to do with drugs — and everything to do with participation and support of the Indigenous communities, and to state repression of the People, those from the ghettoes and original peoples of the land. barrios of America. See: “Many Winters,” p. 11 Letters to the Editor October 2019, Vol. 26 Number 4 IN MEMORY OF Dear friends and Bernie Sanders Supporters, What follows is my response to the Bernie campaign asking for financial support...which I have been giving...but will discontinue until he changes his rhetoric ( and hopefully his position) attacking Venezuela. We cannot afford another war mongering president ready to support destructive US policies and invasions. Repeating corporate media lies supporting the destabilization of another sovereign country is a very very disturbing thing for any candidate. Maybe it just goes with the Democrat label...the other war party of two war parties ever pitching for the weapons industry feeding on the environmental destruction and the human misery they cause? Call on Bernie Sanders to withdraw this demand he made a US sponsored coup. They used to strip the country of for international intervention in Venezuela’s sovereign resources...retained an elitist society with an enormous affairs: “Let me be very clear. Anyone who does what wealth gap...and they want that power back. Maduro does is a vicious tyrant. We need international and John Stockwell, former CIA Officer: “The point is to regional cooperation for free elections so the Venezuelan put pressure on the targeted government by ripping apart people can create their own future.”--Bernie Sanders, the social and economic fabric of the country. Now that’s Democratic Debate, Sept. 15. Call his campaign today, words, you know, social and economic fabric. That means Co-founder & Editor John Johnson, Bernie Sanders: 802-862-1505. making the people suffer as much as you can, until the b. July 4, 1944 - d. April 13, 2014 Greetings, country plunges into chaos – until at some point you can I sent a check to the Sanders campaign before I heard impose your choice of governments on that country.” Editorial Staff: Adolf Alzuphar, Terrie Brady, Donna Buell, Bernie repeating the corporate media’s absolutely false Under Chavez and Maduro the distribution of wealth Bella De Soto, Uncle Don B. 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Tools For Racial Equity In Housing, WED – 9 will be observed at all times during 6–8:30p, Potluck supper at 6p; the Gathering; no alcohol or drugs program starts at 6:30p, Thelma Change Links monthly planning - cameras, video or other recording Terry Center in Virginia Avenue conference call, 7:30p, email equipment will not be allowed. For Park, 2200 Virginia Ave. Santa [email protected] for details. more information please phone: Monica, 90404. Child care provided. Get involved in planning the October 310-519-0936 Website: http:// Policies that are neutral in language, issue of Change Links! angelsgateart.org/or contact can produce disparate outcomes. Stephanie Mushrush at (562) 265- Significant changes are coming to the CopWatch Santa Ana Meeting/ 8423, or visit mwgoe.org Volunteer absentee ballots, and voter ID laws Pico neighborhood in Santa Monica Community Forum, 7-10p, Centro information is available online. See that disproportionately prevented with respect to business zoning Cultural de México, 837 N. Ross story on p. 1. Brown and Black citizens from voting. and affordable housing. No doubt St. Santa Ana (new address) the new policies will be expressed Georgia was ground zero in 2018. Participate in direct-action based – in racially neutral language, but will FRI 11 GA Secretary of State Brian Kemp p.4 barrio organizing against the police 3rd Annual LEFT COAST FORUM: The Centrality of Race has been postponed ...Continued from p. 1 The Left Coast Forum’s mission is multifaceted.: To create a space where progressive thought leaders come to share ideas The Left Coast Forum is a collaborative effort between New York’s Left Forum and the LA Progressive in Los Angeles. KPFK is the media sponsor. To intentionally address existing divisions that weaken the progressive The LA Progressive was founded in Los Angeles in 2008 by husband/wife movement. Understanding that the strongest social movements are made of team Dick Price and Sharon Kyle who, after years of volunteering and providing a network, we recognize that racial and ethnic divisions deeply rooted in our other forms of support to failed progressive causes and campaigns, came to the society also divide the progressive movement and will not disappear without realization that the progressive movement will never be a force to reckon with being addressed. until it breaks down the walls within. The LA Progressive intentionally prioritizes its efforts to serve the needs of a multiracial, intergenerational, multigendered and To provide a space in Southern California where all components of the multiethnic population. progressive movement come together to forge stronger alliances. The Left Forum was founded in the 1960s as the Socialist Scholars Conference (SSC) by Bogdan Denitch, Stanley Aronowitz, and others. The Socialist Scholars Admission to all three days is pegged at $75, but other opportunities are Conference was re-founded in 1981 and was meant to be a broad effort by new available. left academics to create a forum in which to present theoretical and historical See: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/left-coast-forum-2019-the-centrality-of- work in a mostly scholarly format, but for an audience reaching far beyond race-tickets-65192233726 academic circles. Dates TBA, Occidental College 1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Opening Night 6:00p to 7:00p Check-In / Entertainment / Opening Remarks 7:00p to 8:00p Keynote Speaker to be Determined, Thorne Hall The first workshop or panel listing in each time period will be in Choi Hall; the others in rooms to be determined and posted at the Forum and in the program. The last item on each time period is usually a film showing, and its timing may be different from a regular panel because of the length of the film (times are noted in parenthesis after the film). Panels and workshops are generally about 75 minutes in length, with several scheduled breaks and passing periods for refreshments and to visit the vendors’ tables. 8:00p to 9:00p Because of the postponement of the Left Coast Forum, this panel We Need to Hear from the Sistas! will take place at the Peace Center, Fighting Rampant Gentrification 3916 S. Sepulveda @7:30pm Road to Sex Trade Decriminalization: Bella Bethory Black Panther Party and United Muslims in America: Malek Mouzzam Panther Movement: Continuity & Constitution Day: Jim Nasella Renewal: Shaka Zulu and George “The Corporate Coup D’Etat” (film) Katsiaficas First Full Day

9:30a to 10:45a “Paying the Price for Peace” (film on Brian Willson) The Syrian Conflict:Johnny Achi 10a-12:30p Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Dan Conway Repression & Resistance: Aaron Leonard 10:45a- 11:00a Crouching Ancien Regime, Hidden New Order: Entertainment – Visit the The US and China: Gary Hicks and others Vendors – Grab a Snack

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Mario Solis-Marich, Keynote speaker Why Care About Veterans: Suzanne Gordon Puerto Rico Today - Mass Resistance, Recovery & Decolonization: Lawrence Reyes, Nicole Hernandez Mendez and others Movement and Memory: The Struggle for K-12 Ethnic Studies in California Free Julian Assange & Chelsea Manning: Norisa Diaz Independent Left Politics: Howie Hawkins “Paying the Price for Peace” (Movie, Q&A) continues from 10a-12:30p

12:15p to 1:00p Sonali Kolhatkar, Keynote — Choi Auditorium 2:15p to 3:30p 1:00p to 2:15p How the Racial, Social, and Climate Justice Movements Can Play an Independent Role in the 2020 Presidential Corporate-free Progressive Unity: Yosh Yamanaka Election — Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, Brigette Amaya, What is “Political Party” for the Left? Ben Tippin Dick Price & Sharon Kyle — Choi Auditorium Police Accountability and Transparency: Uncle Bobby Election Protection: Mimi Kennedy Yellow Vests: Marcus Lissey Advocacy & Organizing Beyond Borders: Catherine Kennedy “Suppressed: The Fight To Vote” (film) 12:30 – 1:40p (Film: “At War” begins at 1:40p-4:10) p.5 3rd Annual LEFT COAST FORUM: First full day, continued from previous page:

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Sluggo Explains US History: Harvey Wasserman “United Front” to Save Humanity! Jim Lafferty No More Stolen Lives: Uncle Bobby Separation of Families: Angelica Salas Socialist Humanism as the Answer: Kevin Anderson Proportional Representation Elections: Michael Feinstein “At War” (film) 1:40p – 4:10p No-Nuke Should Be Part of GND Agenda: Tsukuru Fors 5:00p to 6:15p Which Green New Deal? Howie Hawkins Organizing for Police accountability — Nissa Tzun Surveillance: Policing Race, Land, and Poverty: Hamid Khan “The Advocates” (film) 4:10pm-6:10pm The Place of Race in U.S. Healthcare: Maureen Cruise, Erika Feresten, and others 6:15p to 9:00p Fighting for Democracy, Impeaching the President: Rich Socially Conscious Entertainment Procida Network — Enjoy Music — Food — Beer — Wine

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9:30a to 10:45a 10:45a to 11:00a 50 Years After Stonewall: Where Are We? Don Kilhefner Sluggo’s Environment Congress: Entertainment – Visit the Vendors – A New Kerner Report: Bob Farrell & Lance Harvey Wasserman Grab a Snack Simmens Someday a World Republic Will Abolish How Progressives Can Help Veterans: Sam War: Tad Daley 11:00a to 12:15p Coleman Let’s Kill Facebook Together: George No. 1 Chung Ying Street: Film Screening Polisner Effective Leadership Training:Kate and Discussion (continues) Legal Observer Training: Kath Rogers Katz Cold War Truth Commission: Rachel Sluggo’s Environment Congress: Bruhnke Harvey Wasserman No. 1 Chung Ying Street: Film Screening Palestine-Israel Justice and Peace: and Discussion (9:30a-12:15p) Rick Chertoff

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Melina Abdullah, Black Lives Matter: Keynote Speaker — Choi Auditorium Dr. Melina Abdullah at protest over Police Commission arrest. 1:00p to 2:15p 3:00 to 3:15p Stopping Fascism Globally: Javier Sethness Entertainment – Visit the Vendors – Grab a Snack Palestine: An Indigenous Movement: Lulu Hammad Building a Progressive Movement for Housing Justice: Peter 3:15p to 4:30p Dreier Lisa Bloom, Keynote speaker “Enter Stage Left”: Ed Rampell Thandiwe Abdullah, Youth Panel The Most Powerful Player: Why You Should Pay Attention to End the US Blockade of Cuba: DAs — Jess Faris Carolfrances Likins, Sylvester (Sly) Rivers and others Genetically Modified Children(film)

2:15p to 3:30p KPFK UTLA and the Green New Deal: Wade Kyle Palestine: A US Racial Justice Issue: Estee Chandler Socialist Feminism, Me Too: Emma Wilde-Botha Uprooting White Supremacy: Michael Novick, Candace Carnicelli, and Michele Dumont

Divisions in the American Jewish Community: Dick Platkin Understanding Progressive Christianity: Rich Procida Resistance & Radio: Daniel Diaz Imprisoned (Movie with Lawrence Fishburne)

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4:45 to 6:00 Climate Emergency: Kathleen Carson Moving Forward (Film) Theatrical Performance: “Bombing the LA Times”: p.6 — Greg Palast & Company 3rd Annual Left Coast Forum Ongoing Events for details. Party, Pilipino American LA Democracy and Socialism: In Occidental College. 1600 Campus Democratic Club, 5–8p, The Noypitz Marx and in Today’s “Democratic Road, LA 90041, free-$125. Indigenous Pride L.A. 2019, 11a–6p, Bar & Grill DTLA, 333 S Alameda Socialism”, 6-9p, Poetic Research POSTPONED! Dates TBD as we Autry Museum of the American West, St Suite 115, LA 90013. https://www. Bureau, 951 Chung King Rd, print. For details, see Griffith Park, LA 90027. Indigenous Pride facebook.com/events/432862810670131/ Chinatown, LA 90012 (By Chinatown https://leftcoastforum.org/ . is the only local Pride event that honors stop on Gold Line, parking on street and celebrates Two Spirit, Indigenous WED – 16 or paid lot next to the gas station LGBTQPAI, Indigiqueer, Third Gender, Many Winters Gathering Of Elders at College and Hill St.) Speakers: Fourth Gender, and other sacred genders MOM - MEDIA DISCUSSION free, (MWGOE) at Angels Gate Cultural Ali Kiani, Iranian Marxist writer and and gender roles of various indigenous 6-9p, Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Center, continues, see Thu 10 and translator; Sam S., Iranian-American peoples, nations, and tribes from around Blvd, Venice 90291. http://venicewake. Ongoing Events for details. reader in Marx and Marxism. the world. Relatives and allies are welcome, org/Events/current.html being mindful this is centered around When our loved ones suffer from recessions, war, bosses, and all the Monthly Youth Climate Strike, 10a, indigenous people by indigenous people. Location:TBA, LA 90012. Free. With Also be mindful of any traditional and THU – 17 cultural protocols. https://www.facebook. the consequences of climate change com/events/2143799065917179/ Whittier Peace Film Night, 7p, St. Matthias Episcopal Church (Chase Room), 7056 Washington Ave., Whittier 90602, N/E corner of Wardman St. Washington Ave (not Blvd) runs north south two blocks east of Greenleaf Park (there is additional parking in the back of the church). Walk through the 2nd gate north of Wardman. The Chase Room is just to the left. Film will be chosen from DVDs brought that night. http:// whittierpeace.org/

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Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region Grassroots Conference, 7p– Oct 19 at 10p. Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E Green St, Pasadena 91101. General Admission $20, students $10. Socialist Democracy vs. Social Democracy: The Armenian National Committee In what way is democracy the road to socialism? Global Youth Climate Strike, El Salvador, Friday Sept. 20, 2019 of America-Western Region is the dehumanizing prejudice felt in the largest, most influential Armenian workplace and beyond, we have to becoming ever more clear and dire Practicing Abolition 1: Thoughts = grassroots advocacy organization: wonder, is this all there is to life? with each passing day, a new powerful , 2–4p, Conversations = Knowledge ANCAWR.org https://www.facebook.com/ When well meaning people like Bernie wave of the climate movement has Navel, 1611 S Hope St, LA 90015. events/476257853168223/ Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn speak been swelling up over the last couple Panel and discussion organized by of Democratic Socialism, does this of years. Young people around the Gloria Galvez, with Micah Bournes, go far enough in restoring our full world have been rising up to defend Jasmine Nyende, Shabina Toorawa, SAT - 19 humanity? Here we will explore how our future, and have been going on Elli Virrueta, and performances by Karl Marx speaks to what a true and strike – every week, all over the planet Edxi, and Ra Avis. Supported by Report-back from the Campaign to , 1–3p, beautiful democracy looks like, the – for months. https://actionnetwork.org/ Critical Resistance LA. Stop LA Jail Construction Southern California Library, 6120 S democracy beyond slogans that we events/youth-climate-strike-la-october-strike Vermont Ave, LA 90044. Since 2004, CRLA deserve. What humanity has come MON – 14 Indigenous People’s Day has been organizing with communities to need is a future worlds away SAT – 12 across Los Angeles and California to stop from the liberalism and pessimism Indigenous Los Angeles 101, 10- jail expansion and build a movement to we have grown accustomed to in March to Close the Camps and 11a, Antioch University Los Angeles, abolish imprisonment. Following years of modern politics. Together let’s learn Abolish ICE on National Day of 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City dedicated and creative organizing in Los about Marxist-Humanism and defeat Action to Close the Concentration Camps. Angeles with LA No More Jails (2004- 90230. One-hour presentation and capitalism! Suggested Reading: Assemble 11a, Grand Park @ Broadway. Q&A facilitated by Dr. Adonia Lugo; 2016) coalition and recently with JusticeLA March to Sheriff Station, 211 W. Temple, Peter Hudis “What is democratic against their complicity with ICE, and socialism? What is socialist then to Federal Building/ Metropolitan democracy?” https://www.imhojournal.org/ Detention Center on Alameda at Aliso. For articles/what-is-democratic-socialism-what-is- Information go to: https://www.facebook. socialist-democracy/ Sponsored by West com/events/659811617840434/ Sponsored Coast Chapter, International Marxist- by a broad coalition that as of press time Humanist Organization. Association, Los Angeles E-Board, https://www.facebook.com/LAMarxists/ Democratic Socialists of America-LA, Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, March and Rally LA, Marx 21, National MON – 21 Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps, National Lawyers Guild-LA, So Cal 11th Annual San Gabriel Valley HIV American Indian Movement, Stop LAPD / AIDS Summit hosted by state Sen. Spying Coalition, and more joining every Anthony Portantino, 9a–12n, USC day. Verdugo Hills Hospital 1812 Verdugo Blvd. Glendale 91208. RSVP: Kristi. Many Winters Gathering Of Elders [email protected], (909) 599- (MWGOE) at Angels Gate Cultural 7351, https://www.facebook.com/ Center, continues, see Thu 10 and events/2494695747257692/ Ongoing Events for details.

the AULA community will learn about coalition (2017-present), together we TUE – 22 527 años de Resistencia Indigena the history of tribes in what became defeated the two huge proposed plans for en Abya Yala (America), Centro LA County and today’s diverse $3 billion jail construction this year! The Cultural Techantit, Tonatierra, y LA Law Library Pro Bono Week, landscape of Indigenous communities task in front of us now is to ensure that Maya Vision, 4–10p, UCLA Labor LA County follows through on resourcing 12n-1p: Access to Police Personnel in the region. On campus, Room Center, 675 S Park View St, LA decentralized, community-based care – Files under SB 1421. 5;30-8p: Free A1001-A1002. For info or to RSVP, 90057. Representante del Consejo de and that those resources truly reflect the Help with Clearing Criminal Records [email protected] Pueblos Originarios Nahuat-Pipil de communities who are directly impacted by (appt needed, call 800-399-4529). 301 Idealist Grad School Fair hosted by Nahuizalco Sensunat, El Salvador. the prison industrial complex. Learn about W. First St., LA 90012, 213-784-7372, Idealist Careers, 5–8p, Kentia Hall, what’s next in the campaign and how to get http://probonoweek.lalawlibrary.org, LA Convention Center, LA 90015. involved. [email protected]. High Desert Book Fair, Oct. 12, Find the perfect grad school to pursue http://highdesertbookfestival.org/wp/ a social justice career. For full list of LA County Sheriff’s Community schools in attendance and information SUN – 20 Oversight Commission, 9a-1p, MTA, SUN – 13 on parking, please visit: One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA https://bit.ly/2LNelQy KPFK Local Station Board monthly meeting, 10:30a-2p, Peace Center, 90012, 3rd Floor, Metro Board Room. Many Winters Gathering Of Elders 3916 S. Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City Public comment welcome. See https:// (MWGOE) at Angels Gate Cultural TUE – 15 90230. Opportunity for brief public coc.lacounty.gov/Meetings for agenda Center, continues, see Thu 10 and 4th Presidential Debate Watch p.7 comments. www.kpfk.org HAMMER FORUM: Impeachment TUE – 29 Report, 7:30p, UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Día de los Muertos Community LA 90024, (310) 443-7000, info@ Procession hosted by Mujeres de hammer.ucla.edu.Calls for the la Tierra, 6–8p, free, Cypress Park impeachment of Donald Trump— Branch Library, 1150 Cypress Ave, and debates over the impeachment LA 90065. https://www.facebook.com/ process itself—began the day he took events/509258836314192/ office. When Democrats took back the House in 2018, impeachment became a real possibility. As House Democrats WED – 30 move closer to impeachment, it begs the question of whether Trump has Neighborhood Sing: Skid Row’s committed any impeachable offenses. Community Jam! Urban Voices Shaniqua McClendon, political director Project, Wednesdays, 4–6p, free.Our for Crooked Media, moderates a panel workshops are open to ALL the public on the latest developments. on a drop-in basis. Neighborhood Sing meets every Wednesday 4:00pm- 5:15pm. You are also welcome to presentation by the Chinese American join our group dinner from 5:15-5:45. WED – 23 SUN – 27 Museum and El Pueblo de Los (be sure to RSVP to this to ensure we have enough for all). We meet Angeles Historical Monument in 7 Dudley Cinema at Beyond Naomi Klein in conversation collaboration with Scripps College. in the conference room of Wesley with Special Guest, 7:30p, UCLA Baroque 681 Venice Blvd, free 7pm: An encore performance will be held Pig Blood Vampire (67 minutes, 2019) Health center at 522 S San Pedro, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire on October 25, 2019 at Boone Recital LA 90013. https://www.facebook.com/ Blvd., LA 90024, (310) 443-7000, Nick Josephs’ (in person) absurd events/1208174632673474/ [email protected]. One of the Hall at Scripps College allegory on America evoking “the foremost chroniclers of the economic French New Wave meets Troma,” and war waged on both people and planet, FRI – 25 Jean Cocteau’s Blood of the Poet. THU – 31 Naomi Klein champions a sweeping Nick Josephs is an actor, musician and filmmaker whose unprocessed environmental agenda with justice LA Law Library Pro Bono Week, Change Links monthly distribution aesthetic and irreverent undertones at its center. Her new collection, On 10:30-11:30a: Know Your Rights meeting, 7:30p, Peace Center, 3916 are influenced by 1960’s counter Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green Interacting with the Police. 12n-1p: S. Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City culture. Driven by his psychedelic New Deal, pairs over a decade of Civil Rights Violations: how, when and 90230, free parking in rear, dial 22 for folk rock, his films inevitably hop the rails in pursuit of a more natural, entry. free thinking utopia. World Premiere http://pigbloodvampire.com/index.html 8:30: GHOSTLY RIA LIVE CINEMA (Recondite Illusionary Apparitions) Live music (with Nick Josephs & BSP) merges with experimental films, poetry and Alita Arose’s Dark Goddess Shadow Dancers to celebrate the Phantasmagoria of Halloween Goblins. http://laughtears.com/RIA. html https://www.facebook.com/ events/444699989687874/ Upcoming Events

Nov 3 -1st Sunday in November, MON – 28 Daylight Saving Time ends, Pacific Standard Time resumes (push the The 28ERS Present: The Student clock back one hour when you go to Debt Bomb Only Grows, 7–9 p, bed Sat. night - you regain the hour of UC Riverside, 900 University Ave, sleep you lost when DST started in the Riverside 92521. We’ll discuss spring) --Spring forward, Fall back. the origins of this debtor’s prison, assess its damage and discontent, Nov. 11 (Armistice Day) Veterans Klein’s impassioned writing with new where to file a civil rights claim. 301 and provide a two-pronged solution, Day Veterans Day is usually with a special mystery guest. This material on our immediate political W. First St., LA 90012, 213-784-7372, observed on November 11. However, ‘Money in Politics’ discussion will and economic choices. Klein argues http://probonoweek.lalawlibrary.org, if it occurs on a Sunday then the focus on the origins, costs and that we will rise to the existential [email protected] following Monday is designated for solutions of the debt bomb. The challenge of climate change only if we holiday leave, and if it occurs Saturday are willing to transform the systems bomb will eventually go off, but who SAT – 26 then either Saturday or Friday may be that produced the crisis. will light its fuse? Will it explode from direct action and student activism? so designated. 13th Annual Native American Or from bank malfeasance and loan THU – 24 Heritage month community defaults? https://www.facebook.com/ Nov. 16 2nd Annual Community Pow Wow, Oct. 26, 10a-9p. events/1911530579092638/. Policing Conference - Redefining Commemoration of the Chinese https://www.facebook.com/ Public Safety in L.A. County - Join Massacre of 1871, hosted by events/302635130668598/ community members, academics, Chinese American Museum, 6:30–9p, law enforcement professionals and Pico House, 424 N. Main St, LA. elected officials for a day of discussion October 24, 1871, 17 Chinese men on community policing and redefining including a 15-year-old boy were public safety. This free public event killed by a mob in LA. Known as will be held Saturday, November the Chinese Massacre of 1871, 16 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at St. it was the culmination of growing Anne’s Conference Center in Los anti-Chinese sentiment leading to Angeles. Registration is required. racially motivated violence. The https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ Chinese American Museum will host community-policing-conference- a vigil concert to commemorate redefining-public-safety-in-la-county- the lives lost on that day. This registration-63815861961 multimedia program will feature a pre-performance talk, a musical Nov. 23 California Community performance, reading of the names of Colleges LGBTQ summit, UC those who passed that day, candlelit Riverside vigil and a wreath-laying procession https://cccqsummit.blogspot.com/ to the commemorative plaque. Visit camla.org/commemoration for event updates and educational resources. Nov. 28 - Thanksgiving This program is free and open to the public; however, RSVPs are kindly Nov. 29 Friday after Thanksgiving - requested. To RSVP, email rsvp@ Buy Nothing Day camla.org. Check our website for other public programs and events. October 24, 1871, a white race riot against Chinese people in L.A. killed Nov. 30 CSUN Pow Wow This program is part of a two-part p.8 17 Chinese people including a 15-year-old boy. https://www.crazycrow.com/site/event/ Indonesia Kills 20 in West Papua Protests by Febriana Firdaus https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/deaths-reported-fresh-protests-indonesia-west-papua-190923071714912.html At least 20 people have been killed, including three shot by police, and Monday in Jayapura, the provincial capital, Aloysius Giyai, head of Papua dozens injured following a new wave of clashes between demonstrators province’s health office, told the news website, Jubi. and government forces in Indonesia’s West Papua region on Monday, Dedi Prasetyo, a spokesman of Indonesia’s national police, also prompting President Joko Widodo to call a security meeting. confirmed to Al Jazeera that one police officer was killed. He could not Sixteen people were killed in Wamena city where hundreds demonstrated confirm the number of fatalities among the demonstrators. Lt Col Eko and burned down a government office and other buildings, authorities Daryanto, a military spokesman in Papua province, said members of the said. Four of the other fatalities were from the clashes that took place on Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) gathered at the Cenderawasih University. Authorities later ordered the protesters to move the demonstration outside of the campus, which resulted in deadly clashes. Albertho Rumsaur, a resident of Jayapura, said he witnessed the clashes between the joint police-military forces and the students. “The students threw rocks and the police fired tear gas,” he told Al Jazeera. Siska Manam, a student, said she also saw civilian militia, who support the military, carrying wood and machetes, giving a chase to the students. The AMP student alliance, however, denied that they have members in Jayapura, adding that they only have a local group in the restive region. The AMP is a leading organization of Papua students that has called for more freedom in the region. Jhon Gobai, chairman of the alliance, told Al Jazeera that the government should “stop scape-goating” the student group for Monday’s protests. Indonesia’s West Papua region is divided into two provinces: West Papua and Papua. Jayapura is the biggest city in Papua province, with a population of some 500,000 people. Several people were killed during protests in Jayapura last month when the unrest erupted. Since then, the government has deployed thousands of troops to the region and arrested activists to quell the protests. West Papua was a Dutch colony until the early 1960s when Indonesia took control, cementing its rule with a controversial referendum. The government in Jakarta maintains the West Papua region, which occupies the western half of the island of Papua New Guinea, is Indonesia’s because it was part of the Dutch East Indies that forms the basis of the country’s modern-day borders. A low- level armed rebellion by indigenous Papuans, who now make up about half the population after years of migration by people from other parts of Indonesia, has been rumbling ever since. West Papua is the poorest region in the country and there have been allegations of human rights violations. At least 17 people were killed after violence erupted in December, which triggered a military crackdown. Some 35,000 civilians have West Papuan protester demonstrates against Indonesian occupation and been forced from their homes as security forces attempt to flush out the rebels repression. Papuans are Melanesian (Black) people, ethnically distinct from from the forested mountains. [Ed. note: Papuans are Melanesians (Black people), culturally distinct from Indonesia, and charge racial discrimination as well as Indonesians, who occupy, racially discriminate against and repress Papua violation of their sovereignty.] and its inhabitants. Stop Blaming Cows and Start Targeting the Corporations that are Destroying the Amazon by Anthony Pahnke https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Stop-Blaming-Cows-and-Start-Targeting-the-Corporations-that-are- Destroying-the-Amazon-20190827-0025.html Most of the reporting on the fires raging in the Amazon try to identify the guilty parties. Some of those that have been identified include ranchers and loggers, as well as the rightwing government of Jair Bolsonaro for its lack of enforcing environmental regulations. Yet, what we need to consider is that no single actor is responsible for destroying the rainforest, but instead corporate supply chains that crisscross our planet. To truly effect change, we need to target companies within these networks, which can occur if we restore Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) in agriculture and boycott firms that have been linked to deforestation. While promoting the return of COOL would take time, now, we know of actual cases As the Amazon burns, with the number of fires increasing more than 80 percent this of corporations that have been connected to deforestation. For instance, many ranchers year when compared to the last, many have proposed solutions to the crisis. Leonardo burning the rainforest sell to the Brazilian firm JBS, which is the largest meat processor DiCaprio has advised us to stop eating meat, while others encourage consumers to recycle, in the world. If you are not familiar with JBS, then you may know its U.S. subsidiary become educated, and contact their representatives. There are also calls to privatize the – Swift & Company. Meats with the Swift label are regularly available in most grocery rainforest to save it, with individuals such as Jeff Bezos – who is already the owner of one stores. Amazon – implored to invest. For public sector workers, namely, teachers and professors with pensions, the Teachers These supposed solutions have serious shortcomings. For instance, what specifically Insurance and Annuity Association of America (or TIAA, formerly known as TIAA- will you demand from your representative? Is the ask that they just ‘do something?’ The CREFF) through its subsidiaries in Brazil has been involved in large-scale land deals that problem with eliminating meat from your diet is that you do not know if you are affecting have been linked to deforestation and land grabbing. Farmer and consumer rights groups the large-scale Brazilian rancher or the struggling family farmer who lives down the have called out TIAA on this point for years. Along with these organizations, TIAA road. Moreover, studies have shown that some forms of ranching – on well-maintained beneficiaries could rethink how their retirement funds are invested. pastures with rotational grazing and the limited of fertilizers – can sequester carbon and Similarly, in a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Pizza Hut, Kroger, help us face climate change. And if the Amazon were privatized, then what if it is later Subway, Wendy’s, Hormel, and Nestlé, were found to source beef in ways that contributed partitioned and sold, again to ranchers and loggers, or perhaps to the tourist industry? to rainforest destruction. We also cannot ignore the mining industry, which is responsible The point is this - if we do not know how to put pressure on the right actors who have for upwards of 10 percent of deforestation in the Amazon. Vale SA is the world’s largest been connected to destroying the Amazon, then our efforts will be for naught. producer of iron ore, with operations in the Amazon. Last year, the company entered into So, what can be done? First, we need to know which farmers and ranchers are involved discussions with the Brazilian state to enlarge the world’s already largest open-pit mine, in deforestation. While identifying individuals is difficult, we can make a push for the the Carajás mine, which is located in the Amazon. While most iron ore exports move to U.S. government to bring back the Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) in agriculture. China, in the U.S., people can demand an end to the U.S.-China trade dispute, which has This policy became law with the 2002 Farm Bill, which required that retailors provide led Brazil to increase its iron ore exports significantly. information on the sources of their food. The Obama administration later repealed Leonardo DiCaprio can tell us to stop eating meat, but unless we know where the cow COOL for beef and pork products, but not for lamb, chicken, and goat meat, perishable is from, then the protest could prove ineffective. To confront the causes of deforestation, agricultural commodities, macadamia nuts, pecans, peanuts, and ginseng. we need to target specific companies within global supply chains. Now, with the right If COOL were brought back and consumers saw that Brazilian beef was in their stores, information of particular firms, the question is if we have the time to take on corporate then they could choose not to purchase it. Some farmer and rancher groups have been power and the Bolsonaro regime to stop the decimation of our world’s lungs. pushing for this policy’s return, as others see this as a way to assist struggling farmers in Anthony Pahnke is the vice president of Family Farm Defenders and Asst Prof of International Relations at San Francisco State University. He can be reached at the United States. p.9 [email protected] KPFK and Pacifica: Homes Not Hotels: Standoff in Hollywood At a Crossroads, On the Brink “It’s my building. I can do whatever I want.” by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA That’s how the owner of 1719-1731 Whitley Ave in Hollywood Listener-sponsored KPFK and its parent Pacifica Foundation are facing responded when a LA Tenants Union member informed him that he critical choices and existential threats. Several stations, including KPFK couldn’t barge into his tenants’ units and remove their ovens without and WBAI in NYC, as well as the foundation as a whole, have been kept their permission. It was rude and aggressive and entitled, and not at all afloat financially only by substantial one-time bequests from supporters surprising. Landlords are accustomed to being in total control and often who have passed away. Meanwhile, membership and listener donations react badly when challenged or told “no.” during on-air fund drives continue to decline; KPFK has about 1000 fewer This particular landlord has been trying to evict the tenants from their rent-stabilized eligible voting members for this year’s Local Station Board election than apartments and convert their building into a hotel (which is legal under the Ellis Act). for last year’s. Now that the tenants are fighting back, he’s angry and doing everything he can to make That election is still in progress -- voting continues through 9 PM local time on October their lives and struggle even more difficult, including removing their ovens. In addition 15, and as of this writing, vote totals were only a little over halfway towards reaching to being disruptive and inconvenient, removing tenants’ four-burner ovens and replacing a required quorum of 10% of listener-sponsors. This is probably due to the violation of them with table-top burners would allow him to exploit another legal loophole in his quest to evict everyone and demolish the building. Pacifica bylaws, particularly the failure to broadcast required on-air candidate forums If you aren’t familiar with an opportunity for live listener call-ins. There have been numerous reports of failure with the laws and statutes to receive ballots, even by current LSB members and candidates for the LSB. And the governing eviction in the station will be in fund drive again as of October. case of four-burner ovens The Pacifica National Board recently passed a motion freezing the previously versus two-burner stoves, unacknowledged practice of obtaining underwriting from various sources without you’re not alone. There are meeting FCC requirements for informing listeners and without adequately accounting so many laws like this on the for the funds in its budget process. A consequence of the motion as interpreted by former books, all incredibly arcane PNB chair Grace Aaron has been to prevent programmers from announcing community and stupid, and all designed events at which the station can table and seek new members. Meanwhile, the larger to benefit the ruling class. issue around underwriting, which is that the PNB apparently agreed to grant authority to People like this landlord creditor that financed a $3.2 million loan to Pacifica to mandate and control underwriting know that these laws are to recoup its loan. Pacifica is required to come up with $30,000 plus a month just to designed to work in their keep paying the interest on this loan, with a balloon payment looming next year for the favor, and demoralize and entire principle. The national Finance Committee has mandated that each of the 5 Pacifica confuse anyone who doesn’t stations start paying a share of the interest in November, pro-rated according to their have as much money or number of listeners (KPFK responsible for close to 30%), but the financially-strapped power as they do. stations, in some cases already unable to meet their required “central service” payments Time is also an operative resource here. The landlord gave the tenants (inadequate to the Foundation, may not be able to do so. and illegal) notice of his intention to remove their ovens…between the hours of 10am In this context, the Grassroots Community Radio Coalition (GCRC) is pushing to take and 4pm. But instead of backing down, the Whitley tenants banded together and had a money out of Pacifica politics so that the elections results are not determined by who can standoff. As a result, their landlord wasn’t able to carry out his plan, but it’s important pay for glossy mailers and propaganda. GCRC is also working for off-air fundraising and to recognize the sacrifices they all made to be there, for themselves and each other. And new listener promotion through off-air community events, and urging management to not just on this one day but every day that they spend defending their homes and fighting drastically review and revise the programming grid to add the voices of engaged, enraged these bullshit evictions. Every minute that tenants have to spend decoding these laws and and creative community voices of resistance, solidarity and liberation. Almost the entire fending off sneaky, predatory tactics is time they could be spending at work, with their morning block of programming on KPFK, for example, is now nationally-syndicated, not families, taking care of their health – literally anything else. locally produced or focused. The evening news has been reduced to a half-hour and most This isn’t to paint the Whitley tenants as victims but rather to acknowledge their of it is piped in from KPFA in Berkeley. KPFK and Pacifica have almost none of the most incredible strength and solidarity. Seeing them show up for each other is a reminder that popular formats for public radio, such as co-hosted magazine style shows that incorporate when tenants fight evictions collectively, they’re not just defending their homes but their news, public affairs and cultural coverage of music, arts and literature; or story-telling communities. And witnessing these tenants fight tooth and nail, while elected officials hours. Between these factors and the almost endless, repetitive and product-oriented claim to be “stunned” by the rise in homelessness and bureaucrats shrug their shoulders fund-drives, the station has been losing listeners and listener-sponsors for over a decade. ineffectually, makes it clear which side is poised to win. To learn more about how you can help reverse these trends, and which For more information on the Homes Not Hotels campaign, including specific demands candidates will fight hard to do so, see www.gcrc-socal.org. in Hollywood: https://nolympicsla.com/homes-not-hotels Update on Lung Illnesses and Deaths Close the Camps! Stop the Raids! No More Associated with E-cigarettes Deportations! End Sheriff Complicity with ICE! The LA County Dept of Public Health warns residents about the use From the day he took office, Donald Trump has escalated a failed and of vaping and e-cigarette devices as potentially harmful to proper lung cruel immigration policy into an all-out white supremacist imperialist war function, and urges residents to STOP VAPING NOW! As of September 19, against immigrants and indigenous peoples, banning Muslims, slamming 2019, there have been 16 reports of serious vaping- associated pulmonary the door on refugees, tearing children from their parents’ arms, targeting injury and one death associated with e-cigarettes in Los Angeles County. black and brown bodies for violence and abuse. This policy has a name: Nationally, there continue to be reports of people showing up in emergency Genocide. Each new affront has been met with outrage and protest but even when hehas departments with similar symptoms such as coughing, difficulty breathing, retreated, Trump has sought new lines of attack: new bars to green cards and citizenship, fever, and may have vomiting and diarrhea. Locally and nationally, the workplace raids, deportations of people with cancer and other life threatening illnesses cause for this threat remains unknown. during their medical treatment, concentration camps. many of these measures have been eventually approved by his compliant courts. Meanwhile, immigrants of color are being terrorized in our own communities, afraid to answer the door, take children to school, or go to work. Our communities need to see and feel the solidarity of the majority that stands with us. We call on all those who oppose the raids, family separation, deportations and incarceration to unite against this reign of racist persecution. It is time to say, “¡Basta Ya!” Enough is enough!

This Indigenous People’s Day weekend let us act together --whether with a march, vigil, rally or direct action-- in solidarity to build a better world and against those who would give us a future of division and white supremacist hate. Let us unite in broad regional coalitions drawing together people of faith, unions, anti-nativist fighters and other progressives to target camps, jails, shelters or other parts of Trump’s anti-immigrant, deportation machinery, including corporations profiting from the dehumanization of our communities. Let us act in the knowledge that no human being is illegal anywhere, not least in a Approximately 2 out of 3 cases reported are in individuals age 25 and younger. Both country formed through violent colonialism that continues policies that create poverty, males and female cases have been reported. war, climate destruction, displacement and refugees. It is the artificial colonial borders All but one reported using both an e-cigarette and a cannabis-type product, not that are illegitimate, not our people. necessarily at the same time. One reported using flavored liquids only (no nicotine, THC, Let us open our arms to immigrants and indigenous peoples in our country and at our or CBD). Various devices and products were reported and remain under investigation. No borders with a greeting of friendship: specific vendor, product or substance has been identified as the cause. Mi casa es tu casa. My home is also your home. Public Health continues to urge healthcare providers to be on the alert for signs of NO DEPORTATIONS---DECOLONIZE THIS NATION! severe respiratory illness among patients who recently used vaping products including e-cigarettes and report cases by phone to Los Angeles County Department of Public In response to this national call, a local action has been planned for Saturday, Health at 626-299-3504. October 12. Assemble at 11 am at Grand Park. March to Downtown Sheriff For information about the dangers of vaping, see: http://publichealth. Station (211 W.Temple) and the DTLA Federal Building/Metropolitan Detention lacounty.gov/docs/VapingFAQs.pdf p. 10 Center (300 N. Los Angeles St - 535 N Alameda St). GLOBAL CLIMATE Many Winters Gathering of STRIKE 2019: Elders, San Pedro, Oct. 10 -14 Youth Lead the Way! ...Continued from p. 1 inspire a healthier future for Native people. The MWGOE is free and open to the public event. The MWGOE was created on October 12, 1992 - in opposition to the quincentennial celebrations of Columbus Day - to reclaim traditional spaces and dismantle the myth of Manifest Destiny to heal from historical and intergenerational trauma. Indigenous elders were central in sharing their living knowledge, daily and generational struggles while participating at the annual Gatherings over the years. In accordance with the seventh generation philosophy, the decisions made today will impact future generations. MWGOE acknowledges that with the rapid destruction and deterioration of the Earth through global warming, the contamination of water and air - the return of spiritual connection to the land and Native teachings is necessary for the survival of all living beings. The MWGOE Committee is comprised of community members representing various tribes including the local Tongva, Chumash, Ajachemen, as well as organizations: Red Earth Defense, Xican@ Records & Film, and Angels Gate Cultural Center. Ceremonial and moon time protocol will be observed at all times during the Gathering; no alcohol or drugs; Cameras, video or other recording equipment will not be allowed. For more information: https://www.gofundme.com/f/MWGOE, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 South Gaffey Street , San Pedro, CA 90731, 310-519-0936, http://angelsgateart.org/ https://www.facebook.com/events/204421047111904/ A few images from the Climate Strike actions last month, as kids from LA & the Bay joined 1000s in streets across the US and around the ECHOES OF FASCISM globe demanding action on greenhouse gases amendments, a mixed record of court and global warming before its too late. decisions, and the fits and starts of various administrations have failed to eradicate. Freeway 9 Expose LAPD Spying In developing his themes, Giroux is not selfish or vain. He readily shares his space from Refuse Fascism L.A. with other writers, historians, and scholars Monday, Sept. 16, Chantelle Hershberger and Miguel “Alex” Hernandez whose distinct expression of key ideas he of the LA Freeway 9 returned to court. Despite 9 jurors voting to acquit welcomes, including Tom Engelhardt, Chris them of all 12 charges in July, the City Attorney is proceeding with a Hedges, Roger Cohen, Masha Gessen, Juan Cole, Michael Tomasky, Timothy Snyder, Ruth second trial, after the hung-jury mistrial. Ben-Ghiat, Richard J. Evans, Ariel Dorfman, The hearing came days after the announcement by LAPD Chief Michel Hannah Arendt, Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, Moore of the results of a promised “top to bottom investigation” of spying Naomi Klein, Wendy Brown, Peter Dreier, J. M. Coetzee, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Susan Sontag, by the Major Crimes Division (Anti-Terrorism Division) that was exposed Theodor W. Adorno, Stanley Aronowitz, and during the discovery proceeding in the first trial. An undercover informant many others. was sent on four occasions to infiltrate and record private conversations and The presence of these authorities strengthens Giroux’s argument. The book and its 488 Records Act, we demand the release of this footnotes serve as a valuable resource for investigation, and all associated interviews further reading and study, which is, after all, and documents. ...Continued from p. 1 one of Giroux’s essential prescriptions for “The LAPD is criminalizing anti-fascist overcoming the “knownothingness” of our protest, justifying repression and spying In the age of Trump, Giroux sees the time. It is a public service to have marshaled so at a time when the Trump/Pence fascist re-emergence of fascism in “an unceasing much evidence, statistics, and source material regime is moving rapidly to gut the rule of stream of racism, demonizing insults, within 245 pages to document the treachery not law, terrorize immigrants and foreclose the lies, and militarized rhetoric, serving only of the Trump years but of the decades that preceded them. right to protest and dissent. as emotional appeals that are endlessly Giroux considers it indispensable “for “Moore claimed that the activity of circulated and reproduced at the highest individuals, institutions, labor unions, Refuse Fascism is “criminal activity,” levels of government and the media.” educators, young people, and others not to be open to surveillance of the LAPD at any He is precise that what Trump is doing silent in the face of the current fascist turn in time anywhere. There is a pile of evidence is not simply “updated” Nazism. Instead, the United States and elsewhere.” He insists showing this is about the suppression he claims that there is a “real and present that “no one can afford to look away, fail to of political speech and protest that danger” that many of the same seeds speak out, and risk silence” in the face of meetings of Refuse Fascism held at Echo steps outside the confines of relying on that grew into fascism in the 1920s and “hatred, racism, misogyny, and deceit.” It is Park United Methodist Church. time “to build community led broad based the Democratic Party and engaging in 1930s have been planted and cultivated Chief Moore’s claims of reforms can be social movements from the bottom up” starting symbolic protest-as-usual. The problem is in American soil for years. He gathers in local communities and expanding to the state seen to be completely baseless. not alleged criminal activity on the part of the evidence in an extended and alarming and national levels. Chantelle Hershberger issued this Refuse Fascism or the Revolution Club – compendium: According to Reverend William J. Barber II, response to the LAPD findings at a press the problem is fascism. People in power have turned their founder of the New Poor People’s Campaign, conference on Friday morning: “At “In a mistrial in June, a hung jury (with backs on the cautionary histories of the such movements must be “deeply moral, deeply Tuesday’s Police Commission meeting, 9 voting for acquittal) failed to conclude fascist and Nazi regimes and, in doing constitutional, anti-racist, anti-poverty, pro- Chief Moore announced the completion the Refuse Fascism and Revolution Club so, willingly embrace a number of justice, [and] pro-labor.” of the LAPD’s review of their spying on defendants were guilty of a crime (for authoritarian messages and tropes: the cult Giroux has no time for “banal resistance.” Refuse Fascism. Moore announced that He takes the Democratic Party to task for the unfurling a banner on the 101 freeway of the leader, the discourse of the savior, they found no wrongdoing in their spying role the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack reading “Trump/Pence Regime Must white nationalism, a narrative of decline, Obama played “in creating the economic, and no violation of protocols, despite the Go!”). But the Chief comes out and says unchecked casino capitalism, systemic political, and social conditions for Trump’s fact that an infiltrator was sent into a church that sounding the alarm about fascism racism, silence in the face of a growing election in 2016,” although he does not identify to record meetings and conversations with – at great personal risk – is not only police state, the encouragement of state those conditions or elaborate on how they are activists. criminal, but the basis for surveillance endorsed violence, the hollowing out of to blame for Trump’s election. While he does “In keeping with the long, bloody history and political repression. These defendants democracy by corporate power, a grotesque not disavow resistance, he demands that it be of LAPD spying and political repression, should be celebrated – not harassed and celebration of greed, a massive growth redefined “as inseparable from fundamental Moore’s comments amount to saying: “it’s criminalized.” in the inequality of wealth, power and change that calls for the overthrow of capitalism fine because we say so.” The allegedly itself.” City Attorney Mike Feuer brought resources, a brutal politics of disposability, independent Police Commission gives Inspired by the courage and vision of 57 misdemeanor charges against 11 an expanding culture of cruelty, and a Frederick Douglass and so many others, this a rubber stamp – with no evidence, no defendants, members of Refuse Fascism disdain for public virtues, all wrapped up Giroux’s commanding and profound book transparency, inconsistencies in Moore’s and the Revolution Club, for taking actions in an authoritarian populism. demands much from all of us in this ominous comments and nothing in place to stop calling for massive non-violent sustained Here, Giroux names most of the essential and threatening period in U.S. history. “Now is them in the future except an empty promise political protest to drive the fascist Trump/ targets that he unpacks. This is his bill the time to talk back,” he writes, “embrace the of reforms... promises the LAPD has made Pence regime from power in the Fall of of particulars, his indictment of both the radical imagination in private and public, and and broken again and again. 2017 and Spring of 2018. Trump administration and the conditions work until radical democracy becomes a reality. “Refuse Fascism demands to know Refuse Fascism is currently calling for that the far-right has been engineering There is no other choice.” the evidence for why they are saying we national meetings “to consider and plan for decades. These conditions are based Stephen Rohde is a retired were involved in “criminal activity,” for sustained non-violent mass protest to on principles of white supremacy baked constitutional lawyer, lecturer, the extent of the spying operation, who begin this October .” More information at into the founding of our country that writer, and political activist. approved it, who was involved and how refusefascism.org. even a civil war, several Constitutional p. 11 high it went. In addition to filing a Public Change-Links Community Calendar & News PO Box 34236 , (we

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