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NO to TRUMP and his
Racism!
NO to the War at Home!
We stand in solidarity
with all oppressed people under attack at home and abroad!
We urge full
participation in the anti-Trump demonstrations!
In reaction to Donald Trump’s election
victory, tens of thousands of people, most of them youth, have taken to the
streets across the country in militant protests to condemn the racism,
sexism, Islamophobia and anti-immigrant bigotry that Trump represents. Many
are fearful, especially immigrants, Muslims and LGBT people. Their rage and
that of their supporters signify the movement that needs to be built to end racism,
wars and the attacks on working people endemic in the U.S. today.
As
thousands have protested, the corporate news media, Barack Obama, Hillary
Clinton and other leading Democrats who expected their party to continue in
office now tell us we must make friends with Trump, that maybe he isn’t so
bad after all.
UNAC
planned post-election protests regardless of who won the election. Our view
has always been that all social progress – for labor's rights,
civil and democratic rights, women's rights, immigrant rights
and against all U.S. wars – has been the product of working people
and their allies among the oppressed mobilizing in
democratic, united and massive movements that challenge the
institutional powers and parties. In these struggles everyone
is needed and welcome.
It
was clear from the start that the antiwar and general progressive movements
could not win in this election.
On
the one hand was the war hawk Hillary Clinton, who has aggressively supported
all U.S. military actions during her entire political life. She promoted the
mass bombing of Libya, cheered the lynching of its president, supported the
right-wing coup in Honduras and called for a no-fly zone in Syria that would
put the U.S. military in direct confrontation with a nuclear-armed Russia.
Here at home, she supported the 1994 crime bill that led to mass
incarceration of the people she called “super predators.” She supported
“welfare reform” that took food from the mouths of poor children. She has
loyally served Wall Street, sat on the board of Walmart and supported
globalization schemes that have cost millions their jobs.
On
the other hand was Donald Trump, a racist, misogynist, crooked billionaire
who spouted venom toward people of color, undocumented workers, Muslims and
women, has a history of supporting anti-labor policies and has raised the
specter of the U.S. actually using nuclear weapons.
THE
WARS HAVE COME HOME
For
years, the 1 percent that runs this country has been ratcheting up its war
against working people here at home. Income inequality has never been
greater. Wages have been stagnant for many years. Many of the unionized
industrial jobs have been automated or moved overseas. Police killings of
Black and other people of color has become endemic. The prisons are bursting
with workers, most of them people of color, for whom this system no longer
has any jobs.
There
was no way for working people, youth, the Black community or antiwar
activists to win in this election. Clinton represented the establishment.
Trump was projected as anti-establishment, but he reserved his fiercest
attacks for people victimized by that establishment. Too many were
sucked in by his demagogy showing deep divisions, much of it caused by
racism. The antiwar movement and all fighters for justice must fight
against this racism.
Both
the Democratic and Republican parties have worked hard over the years to
create an atmosphere in which Trump’s racism, Islamophobia and immigrant
bashing are acceptable. Under Obama, more undocumented workers have been
deported than at any time in U.S. history. Under both Bush and Obama, mosques
were infiltrated and Muslims framed in schemes wholly invented by the FBI to
brand them as terrorists and justify their wars against Muslim countries.
Under both Democratic and Republican administrations, killer cops are left on
the streets instead of being sent to prison.
If
there is a silver lining, it’s that the electoral system as a whole along
with the corporate media have been exposed before millions. As tens of thousands
have risen up in spontaneous actions, we can see the future fight-back that
UNAC along with many others will help to organize to end this system of
exploitation and war.
Join
and organize anti-Trump protests!
Stay
in the streets to mobilize against war and hate-mongering in
all their manifestations!
Come to Washington in January to protest Trump’s inauguration!
NO to the Wars at Home and Abroad!
Money for human needs, not war!
End racism, sexism, Islamophobia &
xenophobia!
Support our undocumented sisters and brothers
in their fight against deportation & for human rights!
And make plans now to attend the next
fight-back conference of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC): April
21-23, Richmond, Virginia. “Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!”
Please make a contribution to
UNAC: https://www.unacpeace.org/donate.html
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please click here: https://www.unacpeace.org/join.html
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