To be honest, the Black Lives Matter movement — which often led protesters to chain themselves together to block busy streets and highways — fell by the wayside after the election, as “The Resistance” took up residence in the mainstream media’s spotlight.
Be patient, though: agitators blocking streets is set to make a comeback, as members of the Los Angeles branch of Refuse Fascism stood in the street today to advertise the group’s Nov. 4 nationwide protest.
8 Volunteers of @RefuseFascism staged an emrgency civl disobedience #Nov4ItBegins Calling 4 millions in strts untl FASCISTS step down pic.twitter.com/UstmteH5BF
— #TrumpPenceOutNow Los Angeles (@RefuseFascismLA) September 26, 2017
“Someone has threatened to extinguish 25 million people, we are not the crazy ones here.”
"Alguien ha amenazado con extinguir a 25 millones de personas, nosotros no somos los locos aquí", dice activista https://t.co/IUTgxTkSjY pic.twitter.com/lTo5Nxfqvp
— La Opinión (@LaOpinionLA) September 26, 2017
Boy, we didn’t miss that. A lot of people, though, missed Refuse Fascism LA’s “die-in” Monday at Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We’re not sure if that creepy looking Spongebob Squarepants is part of the group or if he just hangs out there.
Small group of anti-fascism protesters holding a "kneeling" protest at the Trump star in Hollywood. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/jR07vRcHiB
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 25, 2017
The protesters just took a knee at Trump's Hollywood star. Very small group called "Refuse Fascism LA". @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/bWSBA4LJOj
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 26, 2017
OK, that is a small group, but large enough to spill over onto other stars. Will it be enough to follow through on the goal listed on their website?
THIS NIGHTMARE MUST END. Millions feel this and ache with the question of how to stop this unrelenting horror. The stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity and the planet itself.
Anti-fascism protesters now holding a "die in" at Trump's star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Crowd has mixed opinion. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/I6CBYecKPm
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 26, 2017
Poor Kevin Spacey….just a star mixed up in all of this.
— Matt Prichard (@MattPrichardTV) September 26, 2017
We’ll forgive Bill Melugin — we appreciate the photos very much — for referring to Refuse Fascism as an “anti-fascism” group, though the confusion is understandable.
Brainwashed fascists keep dismissing me by insisting that I "call everyone I disagree with a fascist."
— Sunsara Taylor (@SunsaraTaylor) September 26, 2017
Um, yeah.
Remember “The World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime” during the Bush administration? Same people, except now it’s the “Trump/Pence regime” that must go.
The group was also at Ben Shapiro’s recent speech at Berkeley, where organizer Sunsara Taylor — also of the, ahem, Revolutionary Communist Party USA and Stop Patriarchy — held a press conference. The commies are deep inside this thing. Here’s Taylor with RevCom at the RNC in 2016:
https://twitter.com/VivianFeke/status/756120561554784256
This is the preview for Nov. 4, so keep hoping the numbers stay low.
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‘#Irony’: ‘Refuse Fascism’ protesters at US Capitol seek to ‘drive Trump and Pence from power’ https://t.co/X2aePNqQ5O
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 23, 2017
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