[cryptome] THE ANTI-DONALD TRUMP MOVEMENT OF 2016-17

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  • Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:57:51 +0300

*THE ANTI-DONALD TRUMP MOVEMENT OF 2016-17*http://www.discoverthenetworks
.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2506

*Introduction*

Some of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's political rallies
in 2015-16 were disrupted by violent protesters who were part of a
left-wing “mobocracy” active in American political life since the anti-WTO
demonstrations in Seattle in 1999.

Particularly notable was a March 11, 2016 campaign rally at the University
of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) Pavilion, where hundreds
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/us/trump-rally-in-chicago-canceled-after-violent-scuffles.html?_r=0>
of demonstrators clashed with Trump supporters inside the arena and caused
the candidate to abruptly cancel the event, for fear that the violence
would escalate out of control.

Other significant anti-Trump protests took place in Dayton, Ohio
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/donald-trump-rally-protest-costa-mesa.html?_r=0>
; Kansas City, Missouri
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/donald-trump-rally-protest-costa-mesa.html?_r=0>
; Bridgeport, Connecticut
<https://www.rt.com/news/341327-trump-rally-riot-orange/>; Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania <https://www.rt.com/news/341327-trump-rally-riot-orange/>; St.
Louis, Missouri
<http://ktla.com/2016/03/11/violence-erupts-at-donald-trump-rally-in-st-louis/>;
and Costa Mesa, California
<http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gays-for-trump-crowd-gathers-at-costa-mesa-rally-20160428-story.html>
.[1]

The anti-Trump protest movement has been organized and led by a number of
hard-left organizations that typically seek to foment tribalism,
interracial strife, and socialist economic values [Class War]. Following is
a list of the groups that have played key roles in the protests thus far:


*Black Lives Matter*

Members of Black Lives Matter
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7876> (BLM) have
had a visible presence
<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/15/anti-trump-protests-fueled-by-patchwork-liberal-groups.html>
at the anti-Trump protests, wearing T-shirts that identify them as members
of the movement and chanting its motto—sometimes so disruptively that they
have been ejected from the proceedings by security personnel.

BLM was established <http://thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/> in
2013 by socialist activists Alicia Garza
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2670>, Patrisse
Cullors
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2671> and Opal
Tometi <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2672>.
Their objective was to stoke black rage and galvanize a protest movement in
response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the “white Hispanic
<http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/27/opinion/la-oe-goldberg-trayvon-martin-race-20120327>”
who was tried for murder and manslaughter after he had infamously shot and
killed the black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012. Before long,
“Black Lives Matter” became a rallying cry for writers, public speakers,
celebrities, demonstrators, and even rioters who took up the cause of
demanding an end to what BLM terms the “virulent
<http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/> anti-Black racism” that “permeates our
society.”

Emphasizing <http://blacklivesmatter.com/state-of-the-black-union/> the
permanence and intransigence of American depredations, BLM maintains that
the nation's “corrupt democracy” was originally “built on Indigenous
genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal
exploitation of people of color”; that “the ugly American traditions of
patriarchy, classism, racism, and militarism” endure, unabated, to this
day; that “structural oppression
<http://blacklivesmatter.com/state-of-the-black-union/>” still “prevents so
many [African Americans] from realizing their dreams”; and that blacks in
the U.S. are <http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/> “collectively” subjected
to “inhumane <http://blacklivesmatter.com/state-of-the-black-union/>
conditions”
in a “white supremacist system.”

BLM is closely allied with numerous groups that are fronts
<http://www.aim.org/special-report/reds-exploiting-blacks-the-roots-of-black-lives-matter/>
for
the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7842>, a Marx
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2676>ist-Leninist
entity that calls for the overthrow of capitalism.


*MoveOn.org*

MoveOn.org 
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201>—which
has endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2266> in
its effort to “lead <http://front.moveon.org/about/#.VvGtfpwrKUk>,
participate in, and win campaigns for progressive change”—played a key role
in the mob-like protest that forced Donald Trump to cancel his March 11th
rally at UIC. The organization not only disseminated a mass email
<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/15/anti-trump-protests-fueled-by-patchwork-liberal-groups.html>
in advance of the event, to inform its many members that a protest was
being planned, but also donated 700 signs and a banner for the use of the
demonstrators on campus.

Immediately after the UIC protest, the executive director of MoveOn
Political Action, Ilya Sheyman, said
<http://www.independentsentinel.com/its-no-secret-who-is-behind-the-protestriot-at-the-trump-rally/>:
“Mr. Trump and the Republican leaders who support him and his hate-filled
rhetoric should be on notice after tonight’s events. These protests are a
direct result of the violence that has occurred at Trump rallies and that
has been encouraged by Trump himself from the stage. Our country is better
than the shameful, dangerous, and bigoted rhetoric that has been the
hallmark of the Trump campaign. To all of those who took to the streets of
Chicago, we say thank you for standing up and saying enough is enough. To
Donald Trump, and the GOP, we say, welcome to the general election. Trump
and those who peddle hate and incite violence have no place in our politics
and most certainly do not belong in the White House.”

In another email which was disseminated the following day, MoveOn tried to
raise money for further protest activities, saying
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/13/moveonorg-raising-funds-from-trump-protests-warns-/>:
“We need to double down on our work, showing that America is better
than Trump’s bullying, hate-baiting, and incitements to violence. We are
committed to nonviolence, but we will not be silent. We will not be
invisible.... We’ve been ramping up our efforts for months.... We’ll
support MoveOn.org members to call out and nonviolently protest Trump’s
racist, bigoted, misogynistic, xenophobic, and violent behavior—and show
the world that America rejects Trump’s hate. And to keep it going, we’re
counting on you to donate whatever you can to cover the costs of everything
involved—the organizers, signs, online recruitment ads, training, and more.”


*Service Employees International Union*

Another key player in the UIC protest against Donald Trump was the Service
Employees International Union
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535> (SEIU), a
massive
<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/15/anti-trump-protests-fueled-by-patchwork-liberal-groups.html>
public-sector labor union that has donated countless millions of dollars to
Democratic politicians who promote big government, high taxes, and all
manner of left-wing public policies. Joe Iosbaker, a leader of SEIU Local
73 (which represents approximately 3,000 UIC employees), took part in the
March 11th protest in Chicago. In an interview with David Axelrod
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2466> two
months earlier, SEIU president Mary Kay Henry had stated that her union's
leadership viewed Trump as a threat and would thus be going into “hyperdrive
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-seiu-mary-kay-henry-217445>”
to discredit and undermine his campaign.

Employing highly aggressive methods of protest is something the SEIU has
done for many years. Under John Sweeney
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2009>, who
served as SEIU's president from 1980-95, the union initiated the use of “Muscle
for Money
<http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-acorn-and-the-seiu-they-go-way-back/2/>”
(MfM), an Alinsky
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314> strategy
featuring organized efforts not only to discredit and intimidate opponents,
but also to pressure business leaders and public officials to support
SEIU's agendas—i.e., its desire to unionize additional workforces. MfM
campaigns commonly feature such tactics as attending and disrupting company
functions like banquets.

Moreover, SEIU has parlayed MfM into aggressive “corporate campaigns
<https://capitalresearch.org/2012/05/corporate-campaigns-how-unions-take-the-secret-ballot-away-from-american-workers/>
”—coordinated assaults, often conducted in alliance with social and
religious activist groups, against the reputations of companies resistant
to unionization. Such campaigns typically consist of boycotts, picket
lines, public demonstrations, literature distribution, letter-writing, and
negative-publicity initiatives in the media. In April 2009
<http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3987,css.print/pub_detail.asp>,
California Nurses Association executive director Rose Ann DeMoro condemned
SEIU's “ugly pattern ... of physical abuse and tactics of intimidation that
have no place in either our labor movement or a civilized society.”


*The ANSWER Coalition*

The ANSWER Coalition
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7866>, which
draws its name from the acronym for “Act Now to Stop War and End Racism,”
was established on September 14, 2001—three days after al Qaeda
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211>'s
terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Run by Ramsey
Clark <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=781>
’s International Action Center
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6155>—an
organization staffed in large part by members of the Marxist-Leninist Workers
World Party <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6603>
—the fledgling ANSWER became a leading organizer of post-9/11
demonstrations against the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2002,
the libertarian author Stephen Suleyman Schwartz described ANSWER as
an “ultra-Stalinist
network <http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=21481>”
whose members served as “active propaganda agents for Serbia, Iraq, and
North Korea, as well as Cuba, countries they repeatedly visit and acclaim.”
Throughout its history, ANSWER has consistently depicted the United States
as a racist, imperialist, sexist, militaristic nation guilty of unspeakable
crimes against humanity.

Just prior to the March 11, 2016 anti-Trump disruption at UIC, ANSWER's Chicago
chapter used
<http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/12/here-are-the-radical-leftist-anti-tump-groups-behind-the-chicago-protest/>
its website <http://answerchicago.org/2016/03/march11protestdonaldtrump/> to
advertise the upcoming “Mass Protest to Stop Donald Trump,” adding: “Stand
with All Immigrants, Muslims and People of Color! Shut Down White
Supremacy! Spread the word. Organize everyone you can and get them to this
very important protest. Everywhere Trump goes he and his racist mob must be
shut down by the people!”


*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights*

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7535> (ICIRR)
supports <http://icirr.org/content/immigrant-family-resource-program>
immigrant access to taxpayer-funded public benefits such as food,
healthcare, childcare, and financial assistance; aims to help both legal
and illegal immigrants attain U.S. citizenship; uses grassroots activism
<http://icirr.org/content/organizing-0> to promote the passage of
legislation that benefits illegal immigrants; supports
<http://icirr.org/content/dream> the DREAM Act, federal legislation that
would allow illegal aliens who came to the U.S. as minors and are still
younger than 35 to earn conditional permanent residency and a path to
citizenship; and characterized SB 1070
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1215>, a 2010
Arizona law authorizing state police to look into the immigration status of
criminal suspects, as an “anti-immigrant law” that emblematized “the racial
reign of terror surging across the U.S.”

Objecting to Donald Trump's rhetoric about the dangers posed by unchecked
immigration across America's porous southern border, ICIRR senior policy
counsel Fred Tsao says
<http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/12/here-are-the-radical-leftist-anti-tump-groups-behind-the-chicago-protest/>:
“There’s a lot of really hateful rhetoric with respect to immigrants being
voiced by candidates out there. We want to show that immigrants are
patriotic, contributing and eager to participate in the political process
and to integrate into society.”


*National Council of La Raza*

The National Council of La Raza
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=153> (NCLR) is
currently the largest and most influential Hispanic civil-rights and
advocacy organization in America. Among other things, the Council supports
<http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2008/07/09/15_things_you_should_know_about_the_race/page/full>
the policy of permitting illegal aliens to acquire driver's licenses;
believes that illegal-alien students who attend college should be eligible
for in-state tuition discounts that law-abiding U.S. citizens and legal
immigrants cannot obtain; opposes the cooperative enforcement of
immigration laws by local, state and federal authorities; opposes the
construction of a physical barrier designed to prevent illegal immigration
across America's southern border; opposes legislation that would cut off
welfare benefits to illegal aliens; denounces Voter ID
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1666> provisions
as an “absolute disgrace”; portrays
<http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=14478> illegal
immigrants as vital contributors to the American economy; and supports
“sanctuary
city <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=734>”
policies that prevent police from checking the immigration status of
criminals, verifying resident status in the workplace, and securing the
nation’s borders.

Members of NCLR's Chicago branch participated
<http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/12/here-are-the-radical-leftist-anti-tump-groups-behind-the-chicago-protest/>
in the March 11, 2016 anti-Trump protest at UIC.


*Young Leaders Alliance*

The Chicago-based Young Leaders Alliance
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7894> (YLA)
describes
<https://www.facebook.com/YoungLeadersAlliance/info/?tab=page_info> itself
as “a multicultural direct-action organization” that provides aspiring
activists with training in the arts of “leadership, civic responsibility,
alliance building, and public demonstrations.” By YLA's calculus
<https://www.facebook.com/YoungLeadersAlliance/timeline?ref=page_internal>,
“the impoverished, racial minorities, and the young” experience
disproportionately high levels of unemployment because of “inexcusable
political inaction” and “indifference” by U.S. legislators and
policymakers. Steeped in identity politics, YLA openly encourages African
Americans to protect “the needs of the black community” by voting
<https://www.facebook.com/YoungLeadersAlliance/photos/pb.502196543176058.-2207520000.1457944638./864112006984508/?type=3&theater>
in
elections as a racial bloc. In December 2014, the Alliance staged a rally
<https://www.facebook.com/YoungLeadersAlliance/photos/a.502205133175199.1073741827.502196543176058/811429612252748/?type=3&theater>
to:
(a) condemn the purported epidemics of “police brutality” and “mass
incarceration” against African Americans; (b) implore President Barack Obama
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511> to
directly address the American people about the urgency of “committing to
end the war on black and brown lives”; and (c) “stand in solidarity … to
declare that black lives matter.”

At the March 11th anti-Trump demonstration in Chicago, YLA founder Jedidiah
Brown <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2725>,
an ordained Christian minister and “anti-violence activist
<https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140710/humboldt-park/anti-violence-activist-mentors-gunman-who-shot-at-him-humboldt-park>,”
rushed
<http://www.npr.org/2016/03/13/470237011/this-cant-go-on-in-chicago-says-anti-trump-protester>
the
stage in protest but was quickly grabbed by Secret Service agents who then
released him back into the crowd. Brown later punched
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lefWf3E0Iw> a Trump supporter at the
scene and was eventually taken into custody by campus police.

Brown is a race-obsessed demagogue who laments
<https://youngleadersalliance.wordpress.com/tag/young-leaders-alliance/> that
“still today we [blacks] are portrayed as lazy, aggressive, suspicious …
poor, consciousless [sic] animals.” “No longer will we settle for what
others have called us,” he said in a 2013 speech. “No longer are we coons,
ni**ers, negroes, or colored. We will not accept what the media has said
and continues to say.” “America’s soul needs cleansing,” Brown added, “… if
it will not properly acknowledge the color that made it great! Black made
it great.”

More recently, Brown said
<http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_102030.shtml>:
“[W]e are in a war where we feel like it is time for America to stop the
battles against Black and Brown peoples that don’t allow freedom to truly
be experienced at its full capacity.... The fabric of American society has
been conditioned to view the Black man as a subjugated individual that is
less than and not worthy of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That’s why we have the concept of White privilege. There shouldn’t be any
privilege. That right should be extended to all races.”


*Muslim Students Association*

In the aftermath of the chaos at the March 11th Trump rally at UIC, it was
reported <http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/trump-chicago-rally-protests/> that
the anti-Trump outburst had been organized in advance by Chicago
University's Muslim Students Association
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175> (MSA). MSA
National was originally established in 1963 by members
<http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=29105> of the Muslim
Brotherhood <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386>
at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Many of the group's
founders <http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/84.pdf> were
members of, or had connections to, the Muslim Brotherhood
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386>. Islam
expert Robert Spencer has called
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34Ub8q2niE> the Muslim Brotherhood “the
parent organization of Hamas
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6204> and al
Qaeda <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211>.”


*Occupy Wall Street *

Members of the Occupy Wall Street
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7694> (OWS)
movement have also been involved
<http://www.independentsentinel.com/its-no-secret-who-is-behind-the-protestriot-at-the-trump-rally/>
in anti-Donald Trump protests. Launched some four-and-a-half years ago, OWS
is a strongly anti-capitalist movement that characterizes
<https://occupywallst.org/article/why/> America as a “ruthless,”
materialistic society where the chief objective is to “always minimize
costs and maximize profits”; where “lives are commodities to be bought and
sold on the open market”; and where “the economic transaction has become
the dominant way of relating to the culture and artifacts of human
civilization.” The “deep spiritual sickness” that necessarily results from
this repugnant philosophy of perpetual economic “growth for the sake of
growth,” says OWS <https://occupywallst.org/article/why/>, has caused “vast
deprivation, oppression and despoliation ... to cover the world.” OWS's
prescribed remedy <https://occupywallst.org/article/why/> is to replace the
foregoing arrangement “with a society of cooperation and community”—i.e., a
socialist economy.


*People For Bernie*

PeopleForBernie <http://www.peopleforbernie.com/> (PFB) is a pro-Bernie
Sanders activist group that organizes
<http://www.independentsentinel.com/its-no-secret-who-is-behind-the-protestriot-at-the-trump-rally/>
on Facebook and Twitter, and has proudly claimed credit for helping to
disrupt the March 11th Trump campaign rally at UIC. One of PFB's key leaders
<http://www.peopleforbernie.com/about> is its co-founder Charles Lenchner,
who previously helped establish Ready for Warren, a group
<http://ready4warren.com/> exhorting U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2491> to
run for president. Lenchner also has served as digital director for the
pro-socialist Working Families Party
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965>, and for
the 2014 New York State gubernatorial campaign of Zephyr Teachout
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_Teachout>. Another PFB co-founder,
Winnie Wong, was a founding organizer of the Occupy Wall Street movement in
2011 and helped launch Ready For Warren in 2014.


*Assata's Daughters *

A noteworthy participant
<http://www.independentsentinel.com/its-no-secret-who-is-behind-the-protestriot-at-the-trump-rally/>
at the March 11, 2016 anti-Trump protest at UIC, Assata's Daughters
<http://www.assatasdaughters.org/#home> is a group named after Assata
Olugbala Shakur (formerly Joanne Chesimard of the Black Panther Party
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7375>), who,
while serving a life prison sentence for her role in the 1973 murder
<http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/26/maxine-waters-apologizes%E2%80%94to-fidel-castro/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e04e92d706-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail>
of
a New Jersey state trooper, escaped from prison in 1979
<http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/26/maxine-waters-apologizes%E2%80%94to-fidel-castro/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e04e92d706-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail>
and
fled to Cuba, where she has remained as a fugitive ever since. Assata's
Daughters describe themselves as “a grassroots
<http://www.assatasdaughters.org/#home>, intergenerational collective” of
“radical” and “unapologetically Black” women who deeply admire Shakur and
seek to ally themselves with “the current Black Lives Matter movement.”


*Revolutionary Communist Party*

As the premier Maoist entity in the United States, the Revolutionary
Communist Party
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197> (RCP) views
America as the principal threat to world peace; considers capitalism the
root cause of the world’s most destructive social ills; and contends that
“revolutionary war” is the only means by which people can ultimately be
freed from capitalism’s shackles.

Many of the signs
<http://www.independentsentinel.com/its-no-secret-who-is-behind-the-protestriot-at-the-trump-rally/>
on display at anti-Trump protests bear RCP's distinctive Internet URL:
#Revcom.us. According
<http://revcom.us/a/429/on-the-rise-of-donald-trump-and-need-and-possibility-for-real-revolution-en.html>
to RCP: “Trump is the perfect representative of the ugliest, most rotten,
most parasitical, and most corrupt parts of the already extremely ugly,
vicious, and oppressive American empire and the social values that embody
that empire. Not only his political stances, but the whole way he moves
through life—the bullying, the sleaze, the worship of and glorying in
money, the pride in ignorance, the crude chauvinism of 'USA Number One,'
the leering nastiness toward women: *this* is exactly where the so-called
American Dream leads. He embodies the exploitation and plunder that
*is* capitalism,
and the me-first mentality it spawns.”

“Trump has pulled together a section of the fascist movement in America in
a much more visible and aggressive way,” adds
<http://revcom.us/a/429/on-the-rise-of-donald-trump-and-need-and-possibility-for-real-revolution-en.html>
RCP. “He is organizing those who feel left out and 'disrespected,' who have
been taught that their white skin and American identity make them special
but who don’t 'feel special' anymore, and who blame it on those they have
been taught to despise as being 'beneath them' in society. This sense of
frustrated 'white male entitlement' runs deep in the marrow of white
America … and now Trump has taken it to a whole other level. He is aiming
these angry people at immigrants, at Black people—against, in short, the
most oppressed; he is aiming them against 'foreigners' and 'the different,'
and in particular against *all *Muslims.”


*National Lawyers Guild*

The National Lawyers Guild
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6162> (NLG)
describes itself as “a non-profit federation of lawyers, legal workers, and
law students” that uses the law “to advance social justice and support
progressive social movements.” By the NLG's definition, such movements
promote “basic change in the structure of our political and [capitalist]
economic system,” a system where “vast disparities
<http://www.nlg.org/about/history/> in individual and social wealth” render
“neither democracy nor social justice … possible.” Regarding “human rights”
as “more sacred than property interests,” the NLG's crusade to transform
society also includes the participation of so-called “jailhouse lawyers
<http://www.nlg.org/about/>”—the Guild's term for incarcerated criminals
<http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=18513> claiming to
have been wrongfully imprisoned by an oppressive state for reasons related
to their race, ethnicity, class, or ideology. The NLG's overarching
strategy is to “bring together <http://www.nlg.org/about/>,” into a unified
revolutionary force, a host of groups whose members have allegedly been
victimized by capitalism's inequities—“workers, women, farmers, people with
disabilities and people of color.” “The welfare of the entire nation,” says
<http://www.nlg.org/about/> the Guild, depends upon the efforts of these
allied contingents to “eliminate racism” and “maintain and protect our
civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them.”

The NLG dispatched numerous “legal observers
<http://nlg-la.org/article/nlg-chicago-legal-observers-cancelled-donald-trump-rally>”
to the March 11, 2016 anti-Trump protest at UIC, and subsequently assigned
representatives to legally represent <https://www.facebook.com/NLGNational>
those who had been arrested on criminal charges. This representation was
carried out in conjunction with the Chicago Community Bond Fund
<https://chicagobond.org/trump_protest/index.html>, which raised many
thousands of dollars for the cause.


*Anonymous*

Anonymous
<http://www.independentsentinel.com/its-no-secret-who-is-behind-the-protestriot-at-the-trump-rally/>
is
a loose and decentralized international network of “hacktivists
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivism>” who have been involved in a
number of high-profile publicity stunts and hacking attacks against
government, religious, and corporate websites.

In late 2015, Anonymous announced
<http://www.newsweek.com/anonymous-hackers-declare-total-war-donald-trump-april-fools-day-437027?rx=us>
its plan to wage a cyber war against Donald Trump's presidential campaign,
in response to his proposal to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from
entering the United States. In March 2016, Anonymous reaffirmed
<http://www.newsweek.com/anonymous-hackers-declare-total-war-donald-trump-april-fools-day-437027?rx=us>
its “call to arms” by asking hackers and activists around the world to pool
their efforts to shut down Trump's websites and expose his private
information to the public. In a video that was posted on YouTube in early
March, a masked figure identifying himself as a member of Anonymous said:
“Dear Donald Trump, we have been watching you for a long time and what we
see is deeply disturbing.... Your inconsistent and hateful campaign has not
only shocked the United States of America [but] you have shocked the entire
planet with your appalling actions and ideas. You say what your audience
wants to hear but in reality you don’t stand for anything except for your
personal greed and power.... We are encouraging every able person with a
computer watching this video to participate in this operation. You do not
need to know how to hack to support this important operation.... This is
not a warning. This is a declaration of total war.”


*Democracy Spring*

Yet another determined foe of Donald Trump's presidential campaign—Democracy
Spring <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7895>
(DS)—emerged <http://www.democracyspring.org/> as an identifiable political
movement in early 2016. Though it generally does not mention Trump by name,
DS is clearly alluding to him in its vow to “make this [2016] election a
referendum <http://www.democracyspring.org/> on whether our democracy
should belong to the People as a whole or to the billionaire class” wherein
“the super-rich dominate <http://www.democracyspring.org/> the 'money
primary' that decides who can run for office.”

In its earliest days, DS identified four
<http://www.democracyspring.org/faq> specific reform bills that were
already pending before Congress as “exemplary actions that can be taken”
toward the goal of minimizing the influence of money in political
elections: (a) Implement “small-dollar citizen-funded elections,” where
candidates are required
<http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/public-financing-of-campaigns-overview.aspx>
to
accept public money for their campaigns in exchange for a promise to limit
how much they spend on any election and how much they receive in donations
from any one source; (b) “Combat voter suppression” efforts like the
enactment of Voter ID
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1666> laws,
which DS falsely characterizes as efforts to “disenfranchise
<http://www.democracyspring.org/> ... people of color and the poor”; (c)
“Empower citizens with universal suffrage,” meaning that all adult U.S.
residents should be eligible to vote in political elections, without any
citizenship or voter-registration requirements; and (d) “Introduce a
constitutional amendment overturning *Citizens United
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=456>*,” a
landmark 2010 Supreme Court decision that had struck down the McCain-Feigold
Act <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=456>'s
restrictions on what corporations could spend to support or oppose
political candidates during the weeks immediately preceding primaries and
general elections.

In March 2016, DS announced <http://www.democracyspring.org/> that its
activities as an organized movement would begin officially on April 2, in
“the heart of the [political] primary season,” with “one of the largest
civil-disobedience actions in a generation”—thousands of participants
making a ten-day, 140-mile march
<http://www.democracyspring.org/the_campaign> from the Liberty Bell in
Philadelphia to the U.S. Capitol in the District of Columbia. Upon arriving
in Washington, the demonstrators will proceed to stage a series of massive
sit-ins at the Capitol and in Congressional offices throughout the week of
April 11-18, to drive home their “demand” that Congress “take immediate
action to end the corruption of big money in our politics and ensure free
and fair elections in which every American has an equal voice.” Many of
these protesters, says DS, will be quite willing to get arrested for their
disruptive activities as a means of drawing public attention to their
cause: “With hundreds of patriotic Americans being sent to jail
<http://www.democracyspring.org/>, day after day for at least a week—simply
for sitting in to save our democracy—the drama in Washington will rock the
business-as-usual cycle of this election and catapult this critical issue
onto center stage.”



*Democratic Socialists of America*

The Democratic Socialists of America
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6428> (DSA)
describes itself as “the principal
<http://www.dsausa.org/about/index.html> U.S.
affiliate of the Socialist International” and ranks as the largest
socialist organization in the United States. Its members seek to build
“progressive
movements for social change while establishing an openly socialist presence
in American communities and politics.” “We are socialists,” reads the
organization's boilerplate, “because we reject an international economic
order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender
discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in
defense of the status quo.”

DSA seeks to increase its political influence not by establishing its own
political party but rather by working closely with the Democratic Party
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214> to
promote leftist agendas. “Like our friends and allies in the feminist,
labor, civil rights, religious, and community organizing movements, many of
us have been active in the Democratic Party,” says DSA
<http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf>. “We work with those movements to
strengthen the party’s left wing, represented by the Congressional
Progressive Caucus
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497>.... Maybe
sometime in the future ... an alternative national party will be viable.
For now, we will continue to support progressives who have a real chance at
winning elections, which usually means left-wing Democrats.”

In the run-up to Donald Trump's March 11, 2016 campaign rally at UIC, DSA’s
Chicago chapter, which is one of the organization's most active and
influential branches, provided
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/14/sanders-support-group-sent-members-to-protest-trumps-nixed-chicago-event/>
a link from its website <https://www.facebook.com/events/1060752830629598/> to
a Facebook page that gave details and sign-up information for anyone
wishing to infiltrate the rally. On the day of the protest, Chicago DSA
drove its members to the Pavilion where Trump was scheduled to appear.

Meanwhile, both DSA National and the Chicago DSA were supporting Bernie
Sanders for president.


*League of United Latin American Citizens*

Though the League of United Latin American Citizens
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6189> (LULAC)
began in the 1920s as an organization that promoted Latino assimilation
into American culture, the group was wholly transformed
<http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=16439> by the
radical movements of the 1960s. Beginning in the '70s, the League sought
to expand affirmative action
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=126&type=issue>
programs
for nonwhite minorities, and “economic justice” initiatives for Hispanic
illegal aliens living in the United States. By the '80s, LULAC was echoing
the Chicano separatism rhetoric that had been popularized by such groups as
the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6156> and
the National
Council of La Raza
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=153>. “We cannot
assimilate! We will not assimilate!” LULAC officials stridently declared.

Viewing the United States as a nation plagued by “an alarming increase in
xenophobia and anti-Hispanic sentiment,” LULAC in recent decades has: (a)
opposed the “English Only” movement—an initiative designed to designate
English as the official language of the United States—as “incredibly
divisive because it sends the message that the culture of language
minorities is inferior and illegal”; (b) maintained that America’s national
security measures since 9/11 “have
<http://www.lulac.org/advocacy/alerts/justiceforimmigrants.html> been
focused <http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=27038> on
terrorizing good people simply because they are foreigners”; (c) called
<http://www.lulac.org/advocacy/alerts/justiceforimmigrants.html> for
comprehensive immigration reform that would convert, with some measure of
expediency, all illegal immigrants into legalized residents or full
citizens; (d) worked to defend
<http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/313922/iowa-more-non-citizen-voting-shenanigans-hans-von-spakovsky>
the voting rights of non-citizens; and (e) called on the U.S. Secretary of
Homeland Security to place a moratorium on worksite raids designed to
apprehend illegal aliens, on grounds
<http://www.maldef.org/news/press.cfm?ID=378&FromIndex=yes> that such raids
“caus[e] psychological damage to the families who are being arrested and
separated from loved ones.”

In September 2015, LULAC's North Texas chapter organized
<http://www.fox4news.com/news/19518859-story> a “Dump the Trump” demonstration
where hundreds of people marched through the streets of Dallas while
shouting anti-Trump slogans and displaying Donald Trump piñatas. “We are
not political piñatas,” said Domingo Garcia, president of LULAC Council
102. “Trump is turning Americans on each other with his hateful and racist
rhetoric. We will show him that Americans believe in inclusion and being a
country of immigrants.”

Two months later, LULAC participated
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/11/06/sabado-night-live-protesta-protesta-protesta/>
in a New York City street demonstration
<http://www.thewrap.com/anti-donald-trump-protesters-to-march-on-saturday-night-live/>
called
“Marcha to Stop the Hate,” protesting Trump's scheduled appearance on *Saturday
Night Live*. “Allowing Trump to host *Saturday Night Live … *is nothing
short of a slap in the face to the more than 57 million Latinos living in
the U.S., whose only wish is to work hard, provide for their families and
live the American dream,” said
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nbc_us_563e9a49e4b0b24aee4a9836>
LULAC communications director Brent Wilkes. Another LULAC representative
voiced his hope
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/11/06/sabado-night-live-protesta-protesta-protesta/>
that *SNL* executive producer Lorne Michaels would reconsider giving Trump
“a platform to advance his racist and xenophobic views.”

In January 2016, LULAC's Iowa chapter ran a campaign
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d8daa3ea-c25f-11e5-b3b1-7b2481276e45.html#axzz43rqezMLD>
urging Hispanics in that state to attend and vote in the upcoming caucuses
on February 1.


*Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression*

The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR)
participated
<http://www.fightbacknews.org/2016/3/9/massive-protest-confront-trump-during-chicago-campaign-visit>
in the March 11, 2016 anti-Trump protest at UIC. This organization was
founded <http://naarpr.org/> in 1973 as a local branch of the National
Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, which in turn was an
outgrowth of the movement to “Free Angela Davis
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303> and
All Political Prisoners.” CAARPR's goal is to: (a) facilitate “real
systemic change <http://naarpr.org/join-campaign-police-accountability/>”
by forming <http://naarpr.org/> a Civilian Police Accountability Council
for the purpose of ending the “tyranny” of Chicago police officers; (b)
promote prison reform
<http://naarpr.org/information/campaigns/prison-reform/> designed to end
“brutality and crimes committed by [prison] staff against prisoners”; and
(c) “secure <http://naarpr.org/> freedom for all [mostly black and
Hispanic] political prisoners and people wrongfully convicted.”


*Mijente*

Mijente is a Hispanic organizing collective
<https://www.colorlines.com/articles/latina-activist-arrested-arizona-trump-protest-transferred-immigration-authorities>
that was involved in protesting against a March 19, 2016 Donald Trump
campaign appearance in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Shortly before that rally,
Mijente director Marisa Franco said
<https://www.colorlines.com/articles/latina-activist-arrested-arizona-trump-protest-transferred-immigration-authorities>
: “People will not sit quietly as Trump campaigns to move us back in the
shadows, to the back of the bus, or back in the closet. The greatest act of
love we can show is to shut down hate where it rears its head and demand
that we do better than the cheap politics and false solutions that Trump is
peddling. The billionaire may want to pit poor people against each other,
but our necks are not available for standing on.” On the day of Trump's
rally, Mijente activists were among the many open-border activists who shut
down
<http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/lead-activist-who-shut-down-hwy-to-trump-rally-is-soros-fellow-from-new-orleans/>
traffic for two hours by illegally parking their vehicles across a highway
leading to Fountain Hills.


*Puente Human Rights Movement*

The Phoenix-based Puente Human Rights Movement (PHRM), which has spent years
<http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/03/13/reality-check-organized-left-had-it-out-for-trump-from-day-one/>
protesting against Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio (known for his tough stance
against illegal immigration), describes <http://puenteaz.org/> itself as “a
grassroots migrant justice organization” that aims to “develop, educate,
and empower migrant communities to protect and defend” themselves and their
families. “We organize to build our community’s power with a Closed Fist,
Open Hand Strategy,” says <http://puenteaz.org/about-us/> PHRM. “With a
closed fist, we fight enforcement that criminalizes our people through
racial profiling, police-ICE collaboration, and the detention and
deportation system. With an open hand, we combat attrition policies that
try to make our lives unlivable, by building an inclusive community.”

PHRM was the chief organizer
<http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/03/13/reality-check-organized-left-had-it-out-for-trump-from-day-one/>
of a protest interrupting a large Donald Trump campaign rally which was
held in Phoenix in June 2015. On March 19, 2016, PHRM activists helped block
<http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/lead-activist-who-shut-down-hwy-to-trump-rally-is-soros-fellow-from-new-orleans/>
access to a scheduled Trump rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona by illegally
parking their vehicles across a highway leading to that location. “In
Arizona we’ve heard Trump’s hate before and we know where it gets us,” said
<http://mijente.net/2016/03/19/statement-from-az-trump-protesters/> PA
executive director Carlos Garcia, referring to SB 1070
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1215>, a 2010
Arizona law that had authorized state police to check with federal
authorities on the immigration status of criminal suspects. “The Trump
effect isn’t just about a candidate,” added Garcia. “Trump’s ugly rhetoric
is being turned into policy proposals as we speak that threaten the
wholeness of our families and the safety of our communities. All people of
conscience have to unite to stop it.”


*New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice*

The New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) organizes
<http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/lead-activist-who-shut-down-hwy-to-trump-rally-is-soros-fellow-from-new-orleans/>
day laborers, guest workers, and homeless residents of that city to become
political activists. On March 19, 2016, NOWCRJ members helped block
<http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/lead-activist-who-shut-down-hwy-to-trump-rally-is-soros-fellow-from-new-orleans/>
access to a scheduled Trump rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona by illegally
parking their vehicles across a highway leading to that location.


*Congress of Day Laborers*

Allied with the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice, the
Congress of Day Laborers (CDL) “brings
<http://nowcrj.org/about-2/congress-of-day-laborers/> together Day Laborers
and [post-Hurricane Katrina] reconstruction workers from day labor corners
across the Greater New Orleans area.” On March 19, 2016, CDL activists
helped block
<http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/lead-activist-who-shut-down-hwy-to-trump-rally-is-soros-fellow-from-new-orleans/>
access to a scheduled Trump rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona by illegally
parking their vehicles across a highway leading to that location. One CDL
member, Jacinta Gonzalez, chained her neck to a pickup truck.


*Centro Sin Fronteras*

Founded in 1987, Centro Sin Fronteras (CSF) is a Chicago-based Mexican
organization that has worked <http://www.somosunpueblo.com/about_us.html>
closely with Congressman Luis Gutierrez
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1265> in an
effort to help illegal aliens in the United States gain legal status and
citizenship. Advocating a moratorium on all raids, deportations and
“separation of families,” CSF says: “We want comprehensive immigration
reform that provides legalization for the 12 million undocumented. We did
not create the system of undocumented labor whose bitter fruit is the
separation of families. We have only tried to survive and provide for our
families within that system. We have paid our taxes and given our labor. We
are not criminals. We are not terrorists.”

Members of CSF participated
<http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/illinois/2016/03/8593507/chicago-students-plan-large-scale-protests-trump-visit>
in the large-scale protest that forced Trump to shut down his March 11,
2016 campaign rally at UIC.


*Fearless Undocumented Alliance*

Yet another group that participated
<http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/illinois/2016/03/8593507/chicago-students-plan-large-scale-protests-trump-visit>
in the March 11, 2016 protest at Trump's UIC campaign rally was the
Fearless Undocumented Alliance, an organization which “strives
<https://www.facebook.com/FUAUIC/info/?tab=page_info> to create a
supportive environment, academically, financially & mentally for
undocumented students at UIC.”


*Cosmopolitan Antifascists*

The Cosmopolitan Antifascists (CA) are a New York City-based group of
activists who “stand
<https://www.facebook.com/cosmopolitanAFA/info/?tab=page_info> for
inclusion, diversity, and human rights” on behalf of “refugees” and others
victims of what CA views as America's rampant racism. CA endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign. Just prior to that protest, a CA spokesman said
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/>: “Donald
J. Trump has made headlines in recent months with his divisive rhetoric,
hate speech, and extremist plans to 'make America great again.' We, in
fact, believe this will do the opposite to this nation. Trump’s policies
threaten many of us in the Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, Muslim, and other
communities. These policies and type of speech has no place in this
country, and certainly does not have a place in the city that Trump grew
his empire in—a city known as a melting pot and home for many of the same
people Trump continues to wage war on. Join us at Columbus Circle as we
march to Trump Tower and say NO to hate, NO to divisiveness, NO to fascist
policies, and most importantly, NO to Donald J. Trump.”


*Black and Pink: NYC*

Black and Pink: NYC is a New York-based group that “support[s]
<https://www.facebook.com/blackandpinknyc/info?tab=page_info> LGBTQ people
impacted by the prison industrial complex”—i.e., black and Hispanic
homosexuals and transgendered people. This organization endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.


*ICE-Free NYC*

ICE-Free NYC <http://icefreenyc.com/about-us-2/> is a campaign comprised of
New Yorkers “who want Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence
completely out of our city, which means an end to ICE collaboration with
all New York City agencies.” Asserting that ICE “is shattering lives,
families and communities through racial profiling, detention and
deportation,” ICE-Free NYC endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.


*International Women's Day Coalition*

The International Women's Day Coalition
<https://www.facebook.com/InternationalWorkingWomensDayCoalition/info/?tab=page_info>
(IWDC) describes itself as “an intergenerational grouping of women from
various adversely impacted communities in New York City.” Its constituents
are mostly “women of color” who allegedly have been denied their rights to
public benefits, reasonable wages, “free preventive health care,”
“affordable education,” and “quality … housing.” IWDC endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.


*Millions March NYC*

A “multiracial grassroots collective of activists committed to building &
strengthening the Black Lives Matter movement,” Millions March NYC
<https://twitter.com/MillionsMarch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>
endorsed
a March 19, 2016 demonstration
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> where
thousands of people marched through the streets of Manhattan to protest
against Donald Trump's presidential campaign.


*NYC Shut It Down*

NYC Shut It Down
<https://www.facebook.com/nycshutitdown/info/?tab=page_info> (a.k.a. The
Grand Central Crew) describes itself as “a multi-ethnic, multigenerational
group of anti-heteropatriarchal activists” who: “fight against militarized
policing and racial injustice”; “call out police brutality and systemic
racism … [against] marginalized communities and communities of color”; and
“demand an end to racist police terror, mass incarceration and white
supremacy.” This organization endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.


*Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee*

The Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee
<https://revolutionarystudents.wordpress.com/about/> (RSCC) seeks to unite
“revolutionary-minded youth and students throughout the CUNY [City
University of New York] system in NYC.” Specifically, this organization
calls <https://revolutionarystudents.wordpress.com/platform/> for: “the
seizure of CUNY by oppressed people as a form of reparations for slavery,
colonialism and imperialism”; “guaranteed admission to every CUNY school
for all poor, working-class and oppressed-nationality students”; “the
abolition of systematically exclusive admission practices (e.g. placement
exams, standardized tests) and an end to tuition”; replacing “the current
reactionary white-supremacist patriarchal capitalist education system” with
one that “exposes the exploitation and oppression of the U.S. Empire”; the
removal of “teachers who suppress progressive and revolutionary ideas”; and
massive public funding for “childcare, healthy food, transportation,
tutoring, remedial classes, sports facilities, healthcare and housing.”
RSCC endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.


*NYC Solidarity With Palestine*

NYC Solidarity With Palestine
<https://www.facebook.com/NYC2Palestine/info/?tab=page_info> (NYCSWP) is a
New York-based group that seeks to “broaden the work being done on
Palestine by opening up more expansive spaces of resistances” against
Israel. In August 2014, this group hosted
<http://pix11.com/2014/08/20/palestinian-flag-with-boycott-divest-sanction-hangs-from-manhattan-bridge/>
a “March for Palestine” to “affirm our support for the people of Palestine”
and to promote the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=250> (BDS) campaign
against the Jewish state. NYCSWP endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential campaign
.


*Students for Justice in Palestine*

Students for Justice in Palestine
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6379> (SJP) is a
North American consortium of more than 115 chapters
<http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/israel-international/sjp-2015-backgrounder.pdf>
that
work to oppose the existence of Israel and to promote the Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=250> movement
against the Jewish state. Rooted in the belief that Israel has no
legitimate, legal right to exist as a sovereign entity, SJP's propaganda is
virtually indistinguishable from that of the Islamic terrorist organization
Hamas <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6204>. SJP
endorsed <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/>
a March 19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through
the streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.


*Peoples Power Assemblies*

The New York-based Peoples Power Assemblies
<http://peoplespowerassemblies.org/about-us/> (PPA) “organize to empower
workers & oppressed people to demand jobs, education & healthcare while
fighting against racism, sexism & LGBT bigotry”; seek to “build a society
based on [class] solidarity instead of profit”; and “mobilize in the
streets to fight” against “police brutality,” “racism,” “sexism,” “LGBT
oppression,” and other repugnant elements of “the status quo.” PPA endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.


*Queer Detainee Empowerment Project*

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
<http://www.qdep.org/our-mission/> (QDEP)
is a New York-based entity that seeks to address “the structural barriers
and state violence that LGBTQI detainee/undocumented folks face related to
their immigration status, race, sexuality, and gender expression/
identity.” This organization endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> a March
19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.


*Revolutionaries Against Gendered Oppression Everywhere*

This LGBTQI-rights group also endorsed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/19/trumpprotests/> the
March 19, 2016 demonstration where thousands of people marched through the
streets of Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign.



*William Ayers*

A highly noteworthy individual supporter of the anti-Donald Trump protests
is 71-year-old William Ayers
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169>, who
was seen wearing
<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/15/anti-trump-protests-fueled-by-patchwork-liberal-groups.html>
a “Black Lives Matters” T-shirt while standing outside the Chicago Pavilion
where the March 11, 2016 chaos took place at UIC. “We shut Trump down!”
Ayers posted to his Twitter feed. “Beautiful gathering of anti-racist
youth.”

In the late 1960s Ayers became a leader of the terrorist Weather
Underground Organization
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808> (WUO).
Characterizing WUO as “an American Red Army,” Ayers was an active
participant in the 1969 “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago, which were led by
WUO's antecedent group, Weatherman
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808>. In the
mayhem, nearly 300 members of the organization engaged in vandalism, arson,
and vicious attacks against police and civilians alike. Their immediate
objective was to spread their anti-war, anti-American message. Their
long-term goal, however, was to cause the collapse
<http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/eyewitness-to-the-ayers-revolution/> of the
United States and to create, in its stead, a new communist society over
which they themselves would rule. With regard to those Americans who might
refuse to embrace communism, Ayers and his comrades—including Bernardine
Dohrn <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190>,
Mark Rudd, Linda Evans, Jeff Jones
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2412>, and
numerous others—proposed that such resisters should be sent to reeducation
camps <http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/eyewitness-to-the-ayers-revolution/>
and killed. The terrorists estimated that it would be necessary to
eliminate some 25 million people in this fashion, so as to advance the
revolution.

In his 2001 memoir *Fugitive Days*, Ayers recounts his life as a Sixties
radical and boasts
<http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/167989/bill-ayers-unrepentant-lying-terrorist-andrew-c-mccarthy>
that
he “participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in
1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.” Of the
day he bombed the Pentagon, Ayers writes: “Everything was absolutely
ideal.... The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were
finally going to get what was coming to them.” He further recalls his
fascination with the fact that “a good bomb” could render even “big
buildings and wide streets ... fragile and destructible,” leaving behind a
“majestic scene” of utter destruction.

All told, Ayers and WUO were responsible for 30 bombings aimed at
destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the United States.
“I don't regret setting bombs,” said Ayers in 2001, “I feel we didn't do
enough.” Contemplating whether or not he might again use bombs against the
U.S. sometime in the future, he wrote: “I can’t imagine entirely dismissing
the possibility.”

At a 2007 reunion
<http://fedpapers.blogspot.com/2008/04/ayersdohrn-biggest-albatross-around.html>
of
former WUO members, Ayers reemphasized his contempt for the United States,
asserting that the nation's chief hallmarks include “oppression,”
“authoritarianism,” and “a kind of rising incipient American form of
fascism.” Moreover, he claimed that the U.S. was guilty of pursuing “empire
unapologetic[ally]”; waging “war without end” against “an undefined enemy
that’s supposed to be a rallying point for a new kind of energized
jingoistic patriotism”; engaging in “unprecedented and unapologetic
military expansion”; oppressing brown- and black-skinned people with “white
supremacy”; perpetrating “violent attacks” against “women and girls”;
expanding “surveillance in every sphere of our lives”; and “targeting ...
gay and lesbian people as a kind of a scapegoating gesture.”

*Robert Creamer's and Democracy Partners' Involvement in Provoking Violence
at Republican Political Events*

In October 2016, investigative journalist James O’Keefe’s “Project Veritas
Action” (PVA) released a series of undercover, hidden-camera videos showing
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-okeefe-video-sting-exposes-bird-dogging-democrats-effort-to-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/>
that Robert Creamer -- Hillary Clinton's campaign manager and the
co-founder of the political consulting firm Democracy Partners
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7904> -- was a
leading orchestrator of an initiative where the Democratic Party and
the Hillary
Clinton <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18>
presidential campaign had been using trained provocateurs to instigate
violence and chaos at Republican events nationwide, throughout that year's
election cycle. These disturbances were particularly common at rallies for
then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice-presidential candidate
Mike Pence. In one PVA video clip, Creamer was shown emphasizing
<http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264543/undercover-video-democrats-caused-violence-trump-matthew-vadum>
the importance of beginning these disruptions as soon as possible: “I’m not
suggesting we wait around. We need to start this shit right away on every
one of these fronts.” In a separate clip, Creamer affirmed
<http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264543/undercover-video-democrats-caused-violence-trump-matthew-vadum>
that the Clinton campaign “is fully in” on his strategy, and that “Hillary
knows through the chain of command what’s going on.” Creamer also revealed
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-okeefe-video-sting-exposes-bird-dogging-democrats-effort-to-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/>
that his own organization, Democracy Partners, coordinated its efforts with
the Clinton campaign via daily telephone calls.

Yet another video segment featured one of Creamer’s consultants, Scott
Foval – the former national field director
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY> of Americans United for Change
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7475>, a former
employee of People For the American Way
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6400>, and the
founder of a political consulting firm called the Foval Group
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbfoval>. He explained
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-okeefe-video-sting-exposes-bird-dogging-democrats-effort-to-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/>
that his own Foval Group played a key role in training and organizing the
aforementioned provocateurs to carry out a Creamer-approved tactic called
“bird-dogging,” whereby these Creamer/Foval operatives planned, in advance,
their confrontations with carefully selected, targeted individuals. Said
Foval: “So the term bird-dogging
<http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264543/undercover-video-democrats-caused-violence-trump-matthew-vadum>,
you put people in the line at the front, which means they have to get there
at six o’clock in the morning because they have to get in front of the
rally, so what when Trump comes down the rope line they’re the ones asking
him the question in front of the reporters, because they’re pre-placed
there. To funnel that kind of operation, you have to start back with people
two weeks ahead of time and train them how to ask questions. You have to
train them to bird-dog.”

Moreover, Foval stated
<http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264543/undercover-video-democrats-caused-violence-trump-matthew-vadum>
that he – and, by logical extension, Creamer – sometimes recruited homeless
and mentally ill people to serve as their provocateurs: “I’m saying we have
mentally ill people that we pay to do shit, make no mistake. Over the last
20 years I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff ...”

The purpose
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-okeefe-video-sting-exposes-bird-dogging-democrats-effort-to-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/>
of bird-dogging, said Foval in the video, was to create a public perception
of “anarchy” around Trump, on the theory that its shock value would
undermine his political support.

Foval also explained
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-okeefe-video-sting-exposes-bird-dogging-democrats-effort-to-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/>
that the Democrat bird-dogging operation was structured in a manner that –
if the public were ever to find out about it – would allow the DNC and the
Clinton campaign to pretend that they knew nothing about it. “The thing
that we have to watch is making sure there’s a double-blind between the
actual campaign and the actual DNC and what we’re doing,” said Foval.
“There’s a double-blind there, so that they can plausibly deny that they
heard anything about it.” To help ensure that this plausible deniability
was not in any way compromised, Democratic funding for the Foval Group was
channeled through a highly circuitous path. Said Foval: “The campaign pays
DNC, DNC pays Democracy Partners, Democracy Partners pays the Foval Group,
the Foval Group goes and executes the shit on the ground.”

In yet another video clip, Foval shed light
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-okeefe-video-sting-exposes-bird-dogging-democrats-effort-to-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/>
on the relationship that existed between the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and
the Creamer/Foval tactics: “We are contracted directly with the DNC and the
campaign. I am contracted to [Robert Creamer] but I answer to the head of
special events for the DNC and the head of special events and political for
the campaign. Through Bob. We have certain people who do not get to talk to
them, at all.”

Further, Foval explained
<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-okeefe-video-sting-exposes-bird-dogging-democrats-effort-to-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/>
that once his foot soldiers had either obtained their own video footage of
a campaign-event disruption, or had caused various media outlets to cover
the disruption, Creamer's Democracy Partners would promptly provide the
relevant footage to the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and numerous pro-Clinton
super PACs and activist organizations that were “involved in this project.”
Among these groups, he said, were Americans United For Change
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7475>, the
Alliance for Change, the Alliance for Retired Americans, and Priorities USA
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7698>.

On the same day that this video was released, Creamer resigned
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3850226/Democratic-strategist-steps-post-video-surfaced-purportedly-showing-hired-people-incite-violence-Trump-rallies.html>
in
disgrace from his post as Clinton campaign manager, explaining that he was
"unwilling to become a distraction to the important task of electing Hilary
Clinton and defeating Donald Trump in the upcoming election."

In a December 17, 2015 email that was later (in October 2016) made public
by WikiLeaks, Mike Lux
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2621>, who
co-founded the progressive consulting firm Democracy Partners
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7904> with
Robert Creamer, revealed that Creamer had a "close
<https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37101#efmAI6AK->" relationship
with Robbie Mook, the manager of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential
campaign. In an October 2016 interview with CNN, Mook falsely stated
<https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/10/31/wikileaks-bob-creamer-close-to-robbie-mook/?singlepage=true>
that
Creamer and Foval had "never had a relationship" with the Clinton campaign.


*Indivisible*

Indivisible <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7911>
was
established by a group of five former Democratic
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214> congressional
staffers in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary
Clinton <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18> in
the November 2016 presidential election. One of the five founders,
Indivisible board president Ezra Levin
<http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/politics-polls-26-%E2%80%9Cindivisible%E2%80%9D-featuring-ezra-levin-angel-padilla>,
had previously served as associate director of government affairs at the
Corporation for Enterprise Development, and as an AmeriCorps
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7489> VISTA
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7878> employee
in the Homeless Services Division of the San Jose Department of Housing.
Another key founder, Indivisible board secretary Angel Padilla
<http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/politics-polls-26-%E2%80%9Cindivisible%E2%80%9D-featuring-ezra-levin-angel-padilla>,
had worked as an immigration policy consultant at the National Council of
La Raza <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=153>,
and as an adviser to Rep. Luis Gutiérrez
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1265>
(D-Illinois)
from 2009-11.

Upon its inception, Indivisible's first order of business was to launch a
website devoted to providing leftists and liberals with strategies
<http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/resistance-surviving-trump-indivisible-guide.html>
for countering the “radical, racist, and sexist
<http://whatdoidoabouttrump.com/2017/01/27/indivisible-team-update-from-the-indivisible-guide-team/>”
objectives of President Trump. This website features a tool kit for local
Indivisible organizers, a daily calendar that lists national events and
calls-to-action, and most importantly, the group's signature
publication, *Indivisible:
A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda*
<https://www.indivisibleguide.com/>. During December 2016 and January 2017,
this *Guide* was downloaded more than 1 million times.

Rejecting the very legitimacy of Donald Trump's presidency, the Indivisible
*Guide*portrays
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/31/1613577/-Let-s-not-party-like-it-s-2001>
him as “the biggest popular-vote loser in history to ever call himself
President-Elect.” And because Trump “will attempt to use his congressional
majority to reshape America in his own racist, authoritarian, and corrupt
image” despite the fact that he “has no mandate” from the voters,
Indivisible pledges to “stand indivisibly opposed to Trump and Members of
Congress [MoC's] who would do his bidding.”

The tactics
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/05/anti-gop-uprising-grows-indivisible-guide-resisting-trump-goes-viral>
and strategies advanced in the Indivisible *Guide* are modeled on those of
the conservative Tea Party movement that came to prominence during
President Barack Obama
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511>'s
first term in office. Though the principles of the Tea Party are anathema
to Indivisible, the *Guide* points out that “we saw these activists take on
a popular president with a mandate for change and a supermajority in
Congress.” “If a small minority in the Tea Party can stop President Obama,”
Indivisible reasons, “then we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named
Trump.”

Specifically, the Indivisible *Guide* advises
<https://www.indivisibleguide.com/> leftists to follow the Tea Party model
of being “locally focused” rather than attempting to appeal to people
across broad geographic areas, and “almost purely defensive” – meaning that
they should expend their energies chiefly on opposing Trump rather than on
“developing their own [alternative] policy agenda.” “Defining a proactive
agenda,” said Indivisible in December 2016, “is time-intensive, divisive,
and, quite frankly, a distraction, since there is zero chance that we as
progressives will get to put our agenda into action at the federal level in
the next four years.” The goal, therefore, should be to “stall the Trump
agenda by forcing [Congressional Republicans] to redirect energy away from
their priorities,” on the theory that “a day that they spend worrying about
[rowdy Indivisible-affiliated protesters] is a day that they’re not ending
Medicare, privatizing public schools, or preparing a Muslim registry.”

A related <https://www.indivisibleguide.com/> objective of Indivisible is
to “sap Representatives’ will to support or drive reactionary change.”
“Every time your MoC signs on to a bill, takes a position, or makes a
statement,” says the* Guide*, “a little part of his or her mind will be
thinking: 'How am I going to explain this to the angry constituents who
keep showing up at my events and demanding answers?'”

The Indivisible *Guide* advises <https://www.indivisibleguide.com/>
progressive activists to form local groups of people who reside in the same
congressional district, to fight “the racism, authoritarianism, and
corruption” of the Trump agenda which “explicitly targets immigrants,
Muslims, people of color, LGBTQ people, the poor and working class, and
women.” “We strongly recommend making a conscious effort to diversify your
group,” adds the *Guide*, “and particularly to center around and defer to
communities of people who are most directly affected by the Trump
administration’s racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, and antipathy
toward the poor.” As of January 27, 2017, Indivisible claimed that “more
than 4,500
<http://whatdoidoabouttrump.com/2017/01/27/indivisible-team-update-from-the-indivisible-guide-team/>
local groups” had already been formed “in nearly every congressional
district in the country.”

In addition, the Indivisible *Guide* instructs progressives to attend local
“town halls <https://www.indivisibleguide.com/>” or public listening
sessions held by Republican MoC's, where they should each try to ask at
least one prepared question designed to put the MoC on the defensive. The
*Guide* recommends that the Indivisible members in attendance should: (a)
sit separately in different sections of the room, so as to avoid the
appearance of collaboration and to “reinforce the impression of broad
consensus”; (b) applaud in response to one another's questions and/or
comments; (c) collectively boo in response to things said by the MoC; and
(d) “record everything” with a smart phone or video camera, and
subsequently post those clips on social media or make them available to
reporters.

The Indivisible *Guide* also encourages activists to attend
<https://www.indivisibleguide.com/> other local public events where MoC's
sometimes appear, such as parades, infrastructure groundbreakings, etc. To
“optimize visibility,” says Indivisible, these confederates should “stick
together as a group, wear relatively similar clothing / message shirts, and
carry signs in order to be sure that [their] presence is noticeable.”
Further, they should “be prepared to interrupt and insist on [their] right
to be heard”; chant slogans about an issue of concern; try to speak with
reporters who are present at the scene; and threaten to hold local sponsors
of the event accountable with bad publicity if they support MoC's who back
the Trump agenda.

Moreover, the Indivisible *Guide* exhorts progressives to visit
<https://www.indivisibleguide.com/> their MoC's District Office, where they
can either confront the MoC directly or meetwith staffers, and to
subsequently publicize their visits via social and traditional media.
Similarly, Indivisible advocates the use of mass telephone and email
campaigns <https://www.indivisibleguide.com/> targeting the offices of
MoC's.

Indivisible's modus operandi is rooted in the organizing tactics of Saul
Alinsky
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314>, who
wrote:

   - “Wherever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you
   want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.”
   - “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
   - “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. If your
   organization is small in numbers,… conceal the members in the dark but
   raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your
   organization numbers many more than it does.”

On January 2, 2017, Ezra Levin, Angel Padilla, and fellow
Indivisible founder Leah Greenberg co-authored a *New York Times* op-ed
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/opinion/to-stop-trump-democrats-can-learn-from-the-tea-party.html?_r=0>
introducing their fledgling organization to the American public. While
characterizing the Tea Party's political success as “a disaster for
President Obama’s agenda and for our country” because the movement's “ideas
were wrong” and its “often racist rhetoric and physical threats were
unacceptable,” the authors noted that the Tea Partiers “understood how to
wield political power.” Specifically, said Levin et al, Tea Party activists
had “rattled our elected officials” by: (a) waging “a relentless campaign
to force Republicans away from compromise and [to] tank Democratic
legislative priorities”; (b) “ensur[ing] that legislation that did pass,
like the Affordable Care Act
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1957>, was
unpopular from the start”; and (c) “hijack[ing] the national narrative and
creat[ing] the impression of broad discontent with President Obama.”
Indivisible would seek to use these same tactics against President Trump
and the Republicans.

On February 14, 2017, a group of Indivisible activists swarmed
<http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/15/dana-rohrabacher-staffer-injured-during-anti-trump-protest-office>
the
office of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California). When Rohrabacher's
71-year-old office manager, Kathleen Staunton, attempted to leave through
the front door to go to the bathroom, one of the protesters yanked the door
and caused her to fall and injure her head. The door also hit a
two-year-old child, who was uninjured. Paramedics rushed Staunton to a
hospital.

Leaked audio
<http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/27/leaked-audio-reveals-anti-trump-forces-manufacturing-hostile-town-hall/>
from a February 24, 2017 protest at a town hall with Republican Senator
Bill Cassidy in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, revealed a substantial number of
Indivisible activists secretly plotting to manufacture a hostile
environment and create the impression that Cassidy’s support for President
Trump's agenda was unpopular with the residents of his district. The *Daily
Caller*
<http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/27/leaked-audio-reveals-anti-trump-forces-manufacturing-hostile-town-hall/>
provided a detailed description of the Indivisible members' actions and
private conversations that night:

*The activists split up into an “inside team” — tasked with occupying “as
many seats as we can” and an “outside team,” whose job was to “give [the
media] the coverage they want” before joining the others inside. Activists
were instructed to dress like conservatives and leave at home “any
signifier that you’re a liberal” in order to blend in with constituents.*

*The leftist activists strategized how best to “dominate” the
question-and-answer section of the town hall and keep anyone “sympathetic”
to Cassidy from asking a question.... “Game plan number one is to fill as
many seats as we can, right? If it’s all of us in there and the poor people
of Breaux Bridge are sitting behind us, well then tough luck for them,”
said one organizer, identified by KPEL [Radio] as James Proctor [leader of
Indivisible Acadiana]. His “poor people” comment drew laughs from the other
activists. “If we can arrange it so he doesn’t hear one sympathetic
question–great. That only magnifies our impact,” Proctor said....*

*“The Indivisible Guide does say that when you start to lose the meeting,
that’s when you boo and hiss,” one unidentified activist can be heard
saying. “Right, I was going to say that,” another activist replied. *

*Local news outlet The Advertiser reported that members of the crowd
“frequently interrupted, expressing disagreement with some of Cassidy’s
positions and shouting out their own questions.”*

*“The outside team will join the inside team in the hall after media
coverage,” Proctor states at one point. “So what we’ll do is we’ll try to
dominate enough, because–remember, the camera people especially are looking
for some ‘b-roll’ and some quotes.” …*

*Video from outside the event posted on YouTube shows protesters chanting,
“Love not hate, that’s what makes America great.” One woman appears to
be reading the chant from a script*.


*Organizing For Action*

In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s upset victory over Hillary
Clinton <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18> in
the 2016 presidential election, Organizing For Action
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7774> (OFA)
increased
<http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/how-obama-is-scheming-to-sabotage-trumps-presidency/>
the size of its staff and ramped up its efforts to recruit young liberal
activists to its cause. Declaring on its website that “We’re not backing
down,” the organization doubled down on its resolve to preserve President
Obama’s legacy vis à vis such issues as immigration, healthcare, race
relations, climate change, and wealth redistribution
<http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265808/obamas-shadow-presidency-matthew-vadum>.
Obama himself tried to encourage OFA allies by telling them: “You’re going
to see me early next year, and we’re going to be in a position where we can
start cooking up all kinds of great stuff.” “Now is the time for some
organizing,” he said, adding: “I promise
<http://nypost.com/2017/02/18/obama-linked-activists-have-a-training-manual-for-protesting-trump/>
you
that next year Michelle and I are going to be right there with you, and the
clouds are going to start parting, and we’re going to be busy. I’ve got all
kinds of thoughts and ideas about it.... I’m still fired up and ready to
go, and I hope that all of you are, as well.”

As journalist Paul Sperry
<http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/how-obama-is-scheming-to-sabotage-trumps-presidency/>
wrote in February 2017: “[Obama is] working behind the scenes to set up
what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his
threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its
popular 'America First' agenda. He’s doing it through a network of leftist
nonprofits led by Organizing for Action.” At that point, OFA had 250
offices and 32,525 volunteers nationwide. Meanwhile, an additional 25,000
<http://nypost.com/2017/02/18/obama-linked-activists-have-a-training-manual-for-protesting-trump/>
volunteers
were in the process of being trained.

OFA has been a major participant in, and organizer of, the many anti-Trump
protests that have taken place across the United States since the 2016
presidential election. As Paul Sperry writes
<http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/how-obama-is-scheming-to-sabotage-trumps-presidency/>:
“OFA activists helped organize anti-Trump marches across U.S. cities, some
of which turned into riots. After Trump issued a temporary ban on
immigration from seven terror-prone Muslim nations, the demonstrators
jammed airports, chanting: 'No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!'” Notably,
Obama praised
<http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265808/obamas-shadow-presidency-matthew-vadum>
the airport rabble-rousers, saying through a spokesman that he was
“heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around
the country.”

Shortly before the congressional recess of mid-to-late February 2017, when
Republican lawmakers nationwide were scheduled to hold a series of town
hall meetings and other functions in their respective districts, OFA
distributed
<http://nypost.com/2017/02/18/obama-linked-activists-have-a-training-manual-for-protesting-trump/>
a
training manual -- titled *Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the
Trump Agenda <https://www.indivisibleguide.com/> *-- which was designed to
teach anti-Trump activists how to intimidate GOP congressmen into
renouncing their support for Trump's major agenda items. Among those items
were restrictions on immigration from hotbeds of Islamic terrorism, a
repeal of Obamacare, and the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border. The manual was published jointly by OFA and its partner
organization, “Indivisible
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7911>.” For
details about the contents of the manual, click here
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7911>.

In a separate initiative, OFA in early 2017 laid out a plan
<http://nypost.com/2017/02/18/obama-linked-activists-have-a-training-manual-for-protesting-trump/>
to
stage some 400 rallies across 42 states during the rest of that calendar
year, specifically to attack Trump and the Republicans over the matter of
an Obamacare repeal.


*Refuse Fascism*

Refuse Fascism
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7917> (RF) was
established <https://refusefascism.org/2017/01/25/7915/> shortly after the
November 2016 U.S. presidential election in which Republican Donald Trump
defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18>. The
creators of RF were Revolutionary Communist Party
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197> members Carl
Dix <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1178>,
Sunsara
Taylor <http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/who-is-sunsara-taylor.html> (an
advisory board member with World Can't Wait
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213>), and Andy
Zee <http://chelseanow.com/2015/05/the-revolution-will-be-relocated/> (a
spokesman for the Manhattan-based Revolution Books shop managed by the Mao
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2073>ist
activist C. Clark Kissinger
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1386>). RF
laid out its political and ideological platform in a December 2016 manifesto
<https://refusefascism.org/the-plan/> depicting President Trump as an
illegitimately elected “fascist” and declaring: “In the name of humanity we
REFUSE to accept a fascist America!”


*Revolutionary Love Project*

Founded <http://valariekaur.com/about/> in September 2016 by the
civil-rights lawyer, filmmaker, and Sikh interfaith leader Valarie Kaur,
the Revolutionary Love Project
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7918> (RLP) is a
volunteer <http://www.revolutionarylove.net/>-run initiative based
<http://valariekaur.com/about/> at the University of Southern California.
Committed <http://www.revolutionarylove.net/> to “fight[ing] for social
justice through the ethic of love,” RLP employs “protest, music, dance, and
direct action” strategies designed to combat what it describes as
“hate”—most notably that of Republican President Donald Trump.


*American Civil Liberties Union*

At the University of Miami campus on March 11, 2017, the ACLU staged a
nationwide town-hall-style event
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ACLU_RESISTANCE_TRAINING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-11-12-03-42>
--
livestreamed to some 2,000 locations across all 50 U.S. states -- to train
Americans in tactics of organized, public resistance to the policies of
President Donald Trump. ACLU executive director Anthony Romero said that
approximately 200,000 people had signed up to attend the local events,
where the priority issues were immigration, the First Amendment, civil
rights, abortion rights, and LGBT rights. "We will bring all the lawsuits
necessary to defend these rights," Romero pledged. "We'll do the work in
the courts. You do the work in the streets. People are motivated. They want
to be engaged." ACLU national political director Faiz Shakir added that his
organization was also planning to designate a number of "freedom cities"
across the United States that would encourage local officials to pass laws
resisting Trump policies such as the more aggressive deportation of illegal
aliens. And according to an Associated Press report
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ACLU_RESISTANCE_TRAINING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-11-12-03-42>:
"The ACLU also launched a new grassroots online organizing platform called
PeoplePower.org. It's billed as a way for people considering a local
protest or rally to connect and coordinate with others around the country
with similar intentions, and to provide details of ACLU initiatives."

*Conclusion*

The groups that have targeted the Trump campaign for increasingly violent
protests are part of an opportunistic coalition always on the lookout for
occasions to create violence that will highlight its view of the U.S. as
corrupt and hard-hearted, and propagandize in behalf of radical left
political and social alternatives. The Trump protests are not the first
appearance of this coalition and will not be the last. It is just another
in a series of occasions for the various manifestations of the hardcore
left to state its agenda and grow its influence in America.



*NOTE:*

[1] An April 29, 2016 *Los Angeles Times*
<http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gays-for-trump-crowd-gathers-at-costa-mesa-rally-20160428-story.html>
account of the Costa Mesa protest reported the following:

Hundreds of demonstrators filled the street outside the Orange County
amphitheater where Donald Trump held a rally Thursday night [April 28],
stomping on cars, hurling rocks at motorists and forcefully declaring their
opposition to the Republican presidential candidate. Traffic came to a halt
as a boisterous crowd walked in the roadway, some waving American and
Mexican flags. Protesters smashed a window on at least one police cruiser,
punctured the tires of a police sport utility vehicle, and at one point
tried to flip a police car. About five police cars were damaged in total,
police said, adding that some will require thousands of dollars' worth of
repairs.

"Dump the Trump," one sign read. Another protester scrawled anti-Trump
messages on Costa Mesa police cars. "I'm protesting because I want equal
rights for everybody, and I want peaceful protest," said 19-year-old Daniel
Lujan, one of hundreds in a crowd that appeared to be mostly Latinos in
their late teens and 20s. "I knew this was going to happen," Lujan added.
"It was going to be a riot. He deserves what he gets."

Video footage showed some anti-Trump demonstrators hurling debris at a
passing pickup truck. One group of protesters carried benches and blocked
the entrance to the 55 Freeway along Newport Boulevard, with some tossing
rocks at motorists near the on-ramp. By 10:15 p.m., the bedlam had largely
subsided and Lt. Mark Stichter of the Orange County sheriff's department
said no major injuries were reported. Costa Mesa police confirmed that 17
people -- 10 males and seven females -- were arrested on suspicion of
unlawful assembly. Details on the ages and names of those arrested were not
released.

The violent demonstration was underway after Trump concluded his speech
before a crowd of thousands. "This is the anger people have against Trump,"
said Jose Cruz, 21, as he pointed to the protesters running in the middle
of the street. "It's not because he's white -- it's because of what he's
said." Several echoed the comments, saying they were drawn to the streets
to counter Trump's stated policies on immigration and his inflammatory
remarks about Mexicans.... Holding a Mexican flag, Juan Carlos, 16, said
his parents came to the U.S. from Mexico and that he was protesting to
support others like him....

[A]s the hundreds of protesters overwhelmed the streets, it was apparent to
some that the sizable police presence was wrestling with a larger crowd
than expected. "It definitely got out of control," said Megan Iyall, 20,
who was visiting from Seattle. "I shouldn't feel this unsafe." … To Arianna
Perez, 19, the flaring of tempers over Trump were a necessary reaction to
the inflammatory rhetoric of his campaign. "We could be peaceful and do
things different," she said, "but if we did, we wouldn't get our voice
heard."

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