Update on mass protest plans for Inauguration Day

Dear Friend,

It is now crystal clear that Donald Trump’s government will be made up of right-wing extremist oligarchs and Generals.

Trump, working with the federal government, is also trying to get anti-Trump protests to go anywhere but the Inaugural Parade Route on January 20. The Inaugural Parade Route is where all the attention will be focused, where all of the national and international media will be. The last thing Donald Trump wants and the most important thing for our movement is to have tens of thousands of people flooding the Inaugural Parade Route with signs and banners that explicitly say Stop the Trump Agenda.

This can only happen with your support. Please make a donation today to help cover the costs of this crucial demonstration. https://answercoalition.nationbuilder.com/donate?utm_campaign=news_12_16_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_source=answercoalition

Trump does not have a mandate, even though the media acts like he does. Only 25 percent of the population voted for him. He didn’t even win the popular vote. Why should we pretend that he has some mandate to destroy all of the social, civil, labor and environmental reforms that have been won over the past century?

There’s only one way to defeat Trump’s plans to make it appear that he has a mandate to implement his anti-people program: for everyone to come on January 20 to the Inaugural Parade Route. Thousands will be assembling at 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

We believe that it’s incumbent to keep the focus on the agenda of Donald Trump and on the White House that he will inhabit. Under no circumstances will we surrender our constitutional rights to carry out mass mobilizations in proximity of the Inaugural Parade on January 20 or the White House on January 21, and every day after.

Click here to purchase a ticketon one of the many buses to the January 20 Inauguration Day protest in Washington, D.C.

Trump is assembling a right-wing, extremist and anti-people government

The cabinet choices are a clear indication that Trump plans to wage a massive war against labor, low-wage workers, public education, environmental protections, the immigrant community, women and the Muslim American community while giving massive tax breaks to the richest banks and corporations. His plans for so-called deregulation must be understood for what they are: a plan to end requirements on corporate America to uphold environmental protections, labor protections and civil rights.

This is an extremist, right-wing government that will pursue policies designed purely to further enrich the 1% with devastating consequences for the rest of the population.

The Democratic Party leadership is not going to stop Trump. We the people can stop him.

The elites of the Democratic Party should take responsibility for their own failures. Instead, they are continuing to focus all of their efforts on creating a witchhunt against Russia while at the same time holding out an olive branch to Trump. This doesn’t make any sense. It’s a diversion.

Trump lost the popular vote by a wide margin but narrowly won a few battleground states in areas that have been devastated by runaway factories. The Democratic Party leadership focused on “Russia, Russia” while Trump focused his message on the need to bring jobs back. It’s an absurd waste of time to keep up the drumbeat against Russia now rather than focusing on the fact that the new ultra-right Trump government is about to wage war against social, civil, labor and environmental protections. Trump, not Russia, is about to launch an aggressive effort to end abortion rights, deport immigrants and demonize Muslim Americans.

The resistance to the Trump administration begins on Day One. If you cannot attend, please make a donation to cover the cost of a bus ticket for someone who cannot afford it themselves. https://answercoalition.nationbuilder.com/donate?utm_campaign=news_12_16_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_source=answercoalition

The struggle against the attempt by Trump and the federal government to keep anti-Trump protests away from the Inaugural Parade Route has been getting lots of local, national and internaitonal media cover. Check out this new story from NPR.

The only thing that can really stop the Trump Agenda from being imposed on America is a massive and sustained mobilization of grassroots protest. We can do this!

For the ANSWER Coalition,

Kerbie Joseph
New York City ANSWER Organizer
Yasmina Mrabet
D.C. ANSWER Organizer

From: ANSWER Coalition
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 8:03 AM