Anti-Trump protesters march to prez’s tower
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
& MILO HESS
Almost 200 people marched from
Union Square to Trump Tower
last weekend calling for the removal
of President Donald Trump.
The Oct. 19 procession to 725 Fifth
Ave. was part of a protest organized by
Refuse Fascism, an anti-Trump, anti-
Mike Pence group formed in December
2016.
“We need a coalition — Christians,
Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, traditional
religion, agnostics, atheists,” said
Dr. Cornel West, one of the leaders of
the march and founders of Refuse Fascism,
to a crowd of protesters at Union
Square. “This is a question of what
kind of human being you are going to
be in this particular moment when the
neo-fascist are not just here but all over
the world … this is a profoundly human
affair and that’s why we march.”
Once at Trump Tower, protesters
raised signs to spell out #OUTNOW
and created their own “tower” of items
representing “crimes of this regime”
including baby shoes for the children
detained at the southern border and
plastic bottles for rollbacks to environmentally
progressive legislation.
Saturday’s demonstration was the
fi rst of fi ve Refuse Fascism protests
scheduled to take place in the city on
Saturdays’ at Union Square until Nov.
16.
According to Carl Dix, co-founder
of Refuse Fascism and representative
of the Revolutionary Communist Party,
organizers hope that protesters will instigate
mass demonstrations like what
took place this summer in Puerto Rico
and Hong Kong and create a grassroots
movement to force President Donald
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence
to be removed from offi ce.
Those interested in joining the protests
can stop by Union Square this Saturday
at 2 p.m.
A second #OUTNOW protest took
place in Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Pier
on Saturday. But a scuffl e broke about
between anti-Trump protesters and
Trump supporters during which a man
sprayed bear repellent into the crowd,
the Los Angeles Times reported.
A total of 13 cities, including, Chicago,
Cleveland, Atlanta, Houston and
Honolulu, will hold sister anti-Trump
protests on Saturday, Oct. 26.
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