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How fascism accumulates power by testing people (with image, tweets) · miniver
REQUIRED READING.
This is terrifying and I need everyone to read it.
what you can do to prevent a white supremacist from working in the white house
A white supremacist like Steve Bannon should be unacceptable as chief strategist in the White House, whether you supported Trump or not. President-elects have had to back down on appointments before, for comparatively minor reasons. Let’s not assume this is a done deal.
Social media activism can help raise awareness, but concrete action is important. My friend offers these steps you can take to prevent this appointment:
1) If you live in the US, call your Senators and Representatives and tell them this is unacceptable. Note that the Senate must approve Cabinet appointments: http://www.senate.gov/senators/contact. [See script at end of post. Also, I know this isn’t a Cabinet post but it’s still important to register your objection.]
2) Paul Ryan is feigning ignorance again. Call his office at (202) 225-3031 and let him know that this is not ok. Same with Majority Leader McConnell, (202) 224-2541.
3) Call out the media when they report the Bannon appointment as a straight news story or refer to him as a “Breitbart executive” or a “provocateur,” but don’t call him what he is: a white supremacist, anti-Semite, and misogynist. Don’t let them normalize.
4) Where protests are ongoing, make this a focus, with signs, chants, etc. Speak out on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms.
5) Reach out to any groups you know that might join this effort, from religious groups to community organizations.
6) Contact other people of influence—college presidents, high-profile coaches and anyone else who has a public megaphone—and ask them to speak out against Bannon’s appointment.
7) Sign and share this petition from the Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org/stephen-bannon-has-no-business-white-house
*If you are unsure of what to say when you call your reps, here is a script that worked for someone else:
“Hi! My name is redacted and I am a constituent of Rep. Smith’s. I’m calling to see if and when he’ll be condemning the appointment of Steve Bannon to the White House.”
Them: The Congressman isn’t in yet today and I’m not sure anyone has had a chance to ask him.
“When you do, please also remind the Congressman that he has Jewish constituents in his district, including me, and we are highly concerned about having a white nationalist in the White House.”
Them: Hold please.
Them: Yes, just checked again, and we are not sure his response.
“OK. Well, I’d like a call back, [gives info] and I hope the Congressman is looking carefully at what this man has said and what he believes.”
Spread this, and Kelcy Warren’s contact info too.
Anybody find that patch with a Native badge to be emblematic of everything thats wrong with the settler state and their claims to “honor” Native people while perpetuating systems of oppression/colonization?
(Source: typhlonectes)
via a friend of mine:
Hey folks, I just called Mayor Libby Schaaf to demand her support of undocumented immigrants in the city of Oakland.Yesterday, Mayor Murray of Seattle made a statement saying that the city will be a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, even if it means losing federal funding. Please call your Mayor’s office and demand similar actions of support. Deetz below.
OAKLAND
Mayor Libby Schaaf
phone: (510) 238-3141
message: http://www.oaklandnet.com/contactmayor.aspPORTLAND
Mayor Charlie Hales
phone: (503) 823-4120
message: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/mayor/60975 (email in link)
**hey guess what, there’s also a form ^^^ to request an appointment with the mayorCHICAGO
Mayor Rahm Emanuel (i know, just do it)
phone: Chicago residents dial 311, or (312) 744-5000
message: https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/general/contact.html (click link for feedback form)NEW YORK
Mayor Bill de Blasio
phone: 311 or 212-NEW-YORK if outside NYC
message: http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/contact-the-mayor.page (link at bottom of page)
I wish every white person at one of these protests would commit to doing one-on-one relational work with other whites to deal with their racism
This frustrates me because I’m in a very “liberal” academic space and my white classmates are always having lil breakout groups to discuss allyship, meetings to talk about how they can support black and brown efforts and organizing
But they seem to have zero idea how to actually talk about racism to other white people who don’t already agree with them
I was talking to a classmate today who told me he “felt bad” because his parents and siblings voted trump
And I’m just like: what’s the fucking point of doing all this chatting about allyship if you can’t even sit down and reason with the people closest to you.
Why are you always looking to us for a free education on race when you just compartmentalize that shit or use the insights to get closer to other poc
It’s not just Trump that gained power tonight.
It’s the man on the bus touching me, thinking he had a right to my body.
It’s the man who called me a fat cow for telling him to watch where he was going because he almost ran me over.
It’s the saleswoman yelling “WHY DONT YOU SPEAK MY LANGUAGE” to a Muslim man.
It’s my mom telling my sister being gay is a phase.
It’s my classmates saying women wearing revealing clothes are “asking for it”.
When you give one bigot power, you give all of them power.
Never normalize Trump.
The media will try. Don’t allow it. He can never be treated like a normal president. We can’t let this ever be seen as acceptable, not for a minute.
