'Silence Not an Option': Calls Grow to Disrupt Trump Inauguration
Published on
Thursday, December 08, 2016
by
Common Dreams
'Silence Not an Option': Calls Grow to Disrupt Trump Inauguration
'The Majority have spoken-by nearly 2.7 million votes & counting!' Michael
Moore tweeted, linking to grassroots group's website planning direct actions
on January 20
by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
"Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny," the group said. (Image:
disruptj20.org/with overlay)
The call to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is growing
with the help of documentary filmmaker and activist Michael Moore, who on
Wednesday tweeted a grassroots group's plans for direct actions on January
20, 2017.
Although Trump won the Electoral College, his Democratic rival Hillary
Clinton took the popular vote by more than 2 million-which means Trump will
enter office with low ratings and no mandate. Grassroots activists
organizing a mobilization known as #DisruptJ20 are hoping to call attention
to this dynamic through a series of protests, direct actions, and other
events on inauguration day.
"The Majority have spoken-by nearly 2.7 million votes & counting! Silence is
not an option," Moore tweeted, adding a link to the group's website.
The organizers, known as the D.C. Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee,
"call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies.
If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors,
showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over. It must
be made clear to the whole world that the vast majority of people in the
United States do not support his presidency or consent to his rule."
"Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny," they write. "He is the
champion of neo-nazis and white nationalists, of the police who kill the
black, brown, and poor on a daily basis, of racist border agents and
sadistic prison guards, of the FBI and [National Security Agency] who tap
your phone and read your email."
Moore, who in July predicted Trump would win, said on Late Night With Seth
Meyers on Wednesday, "The majority of our fellow Americans do not want him
in the White House. The irony is unbearable."
In addition to the #DisruptJ20 movement, the inauguration will be met with a
women's march on Washington, with thousands of people expected to join from
all over the country to protest Trump's history of misogyny, including
bragging about sexually assaulting women.
The Guardian reported on Thursday that the National Park Service filed
documents on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee sealing off
portions of the national mall and Pennsylvania Avenue-meaning the women's
march will not be able to hold a rally at the Lincoln Memorial to echo
historic civil rights and anti-war actions. The "massive omnibus blocking
permit" extends for days and weeks before and after the inauguration itself.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil
Justice Fund, said the blocking of access for days after the event was
"extremely unique."
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'Silence Not an Option': Calls Grow to Disrupt Trump Inauguration
Published on
Thursday, December 08, 2016
by
Common Dreams
'Silence Not an Option': Calls Grow to Disrupt Trump Inauguration
'The Majority have spoken-by nearly 2.7 million votes & counting!' Michael
Moore tweeted, linking to grassroots group's website planning direct actions
on January 20
by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
. 97 Comments
.
. "Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny," the group said.
(Image: disruptj20.org/with overlay)
. The call to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is
growing with the help of documentary filmmaker and activist Michael Moore,
who on Wednesday tweeted a grassroots group's plans for direct actions on
January 20, 2017.
. Although Trump won the Electoral College, his Democratic rival
Hillary Clinton took the popular vote by more than 2 million-which means
Trump will enter office with low ratings and no mandate. Grassroots
activists organizing a mobilization known as #DisruptJ20 are hoping to call
attention to this dynamic through a series of protests, direct actions, and
other events on inauguration day.
. "The Majority have spoken-by nearly 2.7 million votes & counting!
Silence is not an option," Moore tweeted, adding a link to the group's
website.
. The organizers, known as the D.C. Counter-Inaugural Welcoming
Committee, "call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the
ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind
closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside
over. It must be made clear to the whole world that the vast majority of
people in the United States do not support his presidency or consent to his
rule."
"Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny," they write. "He is the
champion of neo-nazis and white nationalists, of the police who kill the
black, brown, and poor on a daily basis, of racist border agents and
sadistic prison guards, of the FBI and [National Security Agency] who tap
your phone and read your email."
Moore, who in July predicted Trump would win, said on Late Night With Seth
Meyers on Wednesday, "The majority of our fellow Americans do not want him
in the White House. The irony is unbearable."
In addition to the #DisruptJ20 movement, the inauguration will be met with a
women's march on Washington, with thousands of people expected to join from
all over the country to protest Trump's history of misogyny, including
bragging about sexually assaulting women.
The Guardian reported on Thursday that the National Park Service filed
documents on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee sealing off
portions of the national mall and Pennsylvania Avenue-meaning the women's
march will not be able to hold a rally at the Lincoln Memorial to echo
historic civil rights and anti-war actions. The "massive omnibus blocking
permit" extends for days and weeks before and after the inauguration itself.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil
Justice Fund, said the blocking of access for days after the event was
"extremely unique."
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License
