Posted on 11/13/2016 9:23:38 PM PST by aquila48
The unthinkable has happened – Donald Trump has won. Further, the Republicans have seized control of both chambers of congress. They are planning to unleash a storm of attacks against the most vulnerable in our society. This cannot stand. We need to stand as one and revive the solidarity in the old labor slogan, “an injury to one, is an injury all.” We need to build the fightback to Trump and the Right.
Within hours of Trump being elected, Socialist Alternative with Socialist Students and Movement for the 99% put out the call for mass protests across the country to unite against sexism and racism and to begin building the movement against Trump and the the billionaire class. In less than 24 hours nearly 40,000 people answered our call!
The numbers of people – mostly young people – who attended in each city is electrifying: New York City had 10,000 people; Philadelphia 6,000; Boston 10,000; Seattle 6,000; and Oakland 5,000. Our protests were a top story on newscasts across the country and internationally – from CNN to The Guardian.
This is only the beginning.
Plans are underway for huge nationwide protests around Trump’s inauguration on January 20th and 21st to send a clear message that we reject his right-wing agenda of bigotry and pro-corporate policies. We need to build a grassroots movement against threats to escalate mass deportations of immigrants and a clampdown on muslim communities, among other attacks. Socialist Alternative will be at the forefront of building these demonstrations and organizing broad community coalitions to stand united against bigotry and hate.
(Excerpt) Read more at socialistalternative.org ...
One of the principal organizer is an international Marxist group called Socialist Alternative (you can see their name in the protesters' signs). They have chapters all over the world and even some elected office holders here in the US, like Kshama Sawant, who is a council woman in Seattle.
Here's more from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Alternative_(United_States)
Why isn't the media (including our side) reporting this?
Ping
Good find thanks!
Hey idiots!
We had a protest already. It was last Tuesday and it was Us against You. You lost.
Deal with it.
And any or all that resort to violence should be arrested, prosecuted, and jailed. Zero tolerance.
So they got a few snowflakes out as street theater.
They’d like to turn America into a carbon copy of Venezuela.
Good luck with it.
Lol@ 40k
Later
Yeah they “answered the call” because they were promised 15 bucks an hour and 1200 bucks a week..I wonder how many of these same people would have “answered the call” if they were doing this for free..oh and since these douche bags want a “Socialist Alternative” perhaps they can check out Venezuela, I doubt these morons last 2 days in a REAL Socialist country where they have to wipe their ass with a leaf and have to fight people in the streets for a piece of cheese
Glad to see they are bringing their mayhem to dark blue cities where most of the people that they ultimately beat the crap out of probably voted for obama twice and the hildabeast once. I try to look for the good in every situation and that is a good thing.
I predict that this will get worse.
Stay armed, FRiends.
If they had worked as hard before the election in legitimate activities, Hillary might have won......
Typical laundry list of communist fantasy.
Illegal alien transgendered poor disabled gay black Muslims must really be scared.
Isn’t the Clintoonie Crime Family part of the “billionaire class”? At least Trump earned his billions. Socialist Alternative’s billionaire class steals their billions from the little people and working class families.
Is that a fake sign?
Not that I’ve heard; there was even a trending group on Twitter (2450 Tweets when I checked) condemning the sign.
He got 40,000 out of 340 million. Bryan the commie pig sounds like he’s on a roll. ROTFL.
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