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Tanuki

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Sat Jan 25, 2025, 10:31 AM Saturday

Robert Reich: Neofascism is here, 10 things you can do to resist

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/24/trump-fascism-what-to-do

"In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations.

1. Protect the decent and hardworking members of your communities who are undocumented or whose parents are undocumented
This is an urgent moral call to action. As Donald Trump’s Ice begins roundups and deportations, many good people are endangered and understandably frightened.

One of Trump’s new executive orders allows Ice to arrest undocumented immigrants at or near schools, places of worship, healthcare sites, shelters and relief centers – thereby deterring them from sending their kids to school or getting help they need.

If you trust your mayor or city manager, check in with their offices to see what they are doing to protect vulnerable families in your community. Join others in voluntary efforts to keep Ice away from schools, hospitals and shelters.

Organize and mobilize your community to support it as a sanctuary city, and to support your state as a sanctuary state. Trump’s justice department is already launching investigations of cities and states that go against federal immigration orders, laying the groundwork for legal challenges to local laws and forcing compliance with the executive branch. Your voice and organizing could be helpful in fighting back.

I recommend you order these red cards from Immigrant Legal Resource Center and make them available in and around your community: Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC. You might also find these of use: Immigration Preparedness Toolkit | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC."...(9 more at link)
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Robert Reich: Neofascism is here, 10 things you can do to resist (Original Post) Tanuki Saturday OP
6. Spread the truth... Clouds Passing Saturday #1
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Clouds Passing

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1. 6. Spread the truth...
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 11:08 AM
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“Get news through reliable sources, and spread it. If you hear anyone spreading lies and Trump propaganda, including local media, contradict them with facts and their sources.

Here are some of the sources I currently rely on for the truth: the Guardian, Democracy Now, Business Insider, the New Yorker, the American Prospect, Americans for Tax Fairness, the Economic Policy Institute, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, ProPublica, Labor Notes, the Lever, Popular Information, Heather Cox Richardson and, of course, my Substack.”

KPN

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2. Kicked! Was going to post this myself, but decided to scroll thru this forum first to make sure
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 01:23 PM
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someone else hadn't already ... and voila. Good job. Good Stuff too!

Reich lays out a number of practical things each of us can do to resist and overcome.

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