Inside the Lefts Plans to Occupy Trump
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Inside the Left’s Plans to Occupy Trump
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/23/inside-the-lefts-plans-to-occupy-trump-215518?lo=ap_d1
Veterans of Occupy Wall Street are dusting off an old protest tactic for a new era.
By TAYLOR GEE
August 23, 2017
The Friday Cover
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NEW YORK — One week after Charlottesville, “the Resistance” is planning its next move. Members of a group calling itself “Resist Fascism” met in five cities around the country on Saturday with the intent to plan and organize nationwide demonstrations later this year. Their goal, according to Eva Sahana, a 22 year-old organizer, is simply to “drive out the Trump and Pence fascist regime.”
The planning is still in its early stages, but the organizers have an idea in mind. On Saturday, November 4—approximately a year after President Donald Trump’s election—members of the Resistance will descend on America’s major cities. They’ll march and demonstrate, as they have in the past, but this time, say organizers, they won’t go home at the end of the day. Instead, the plan is to occupy city centers and parks and not leave until, and only until, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have fallen.
“Outrages that once shocked people about this regime aren’t quite as shocking anymore,” said Sahana. “We need to act now, before people have learned to accept the unacceptable.”
The lead organizers at the New York conference are a disparate bunch. They include a Maoist activist and a leftist bookstore owner and anti-gun advocate who describe themselves as anti-fascist but differentiate themselves from the “Antifa,” the black-clad protesters who have clashed violently with white supremacists and the “alt-right” at Charlottesville and the University of California, Berkeley. The organizers’ disillusionment with electoral politics and radical talk of “regime change” sets them apart, too, from more moderate organizations within the so-called Resistance, such as Indivisible or Swing Left, two constituent-based activist groups that formed in the wake of Trump’s election........................................
The New York meeting, which included around 90 people, took place at a community center only a short walk from Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street got its start six years ago. The plan for November 4 resembles that 2011 protest in more ways than one. Not only does the tactic of urban occupation directly stem from Occupy Wall Street, but several “Resist Fascism” organizers were active participants in the Zuccotti Park protests—experience that made them sound like hardened veterans dishing out tactical advice to the new recruits. .......................................
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