A MESSAGE FROM FRANK CHAPMAN ON THE NEED TO MOBILIZE FOR MAY 25TH!

We have never lived in more momentous times than the present time.

This is a moment in our history where we face serious dangers and challenges to democracy, to our democratic right to organize and protest and struggle.And where we're called upon by the suffering of our people, by oppressed people and the working class. We're called upon to respond to these attacks and these threats with enthusiasm, determination, and dedication to bring to an end this threatened and real political terror that Donald Trump and his minions are imposing upon our country and the world.

So, this is a call to action in response to one of the most recent executive orders having to do with law and order, but it is also a response to the last 100 or so days of Trump issuing a whole barrage of executive orders that clearly and unequivocally are designed to undermine every semblance of democracy in this country and to bring an end to any and all organized protest for justice and against the status quo.

Most recently, since the April 28th Executive Order 14288, Trump issued another order called "Establishing Project Homecoming" which instructs the Secretary of Homeland Security to contract with and deputize local and state law enforcement to increase the immigration enforcement and removal operations force by a minimum of 20,000 officers in the next 60 days. So, what do we do?

Clearly these people have turned the government against the people.

Clearly they have put in their crosshairs the destruction of everything in this society that benefits the masses of people in terms of housing, jobs, doing away with injustices, the precious rights of people to speak out and challenge the powers that be.

So, this is not just another protest against just another infraction.

This is a protest which must have a very loud, clear, and unequivocal message to Donald Trump. And that message must be, as Chicago Mayor Johnson put it on May 1st, that we will not bow down, we will not give in, we will not surrender, to these fascist-like measures the government is taking against our people. That we will fight, not just in Chicago, not just in New York, not just in Miami, not just in Jackson, Louisiana, or Seattle. We're not just talking about a fight in these cities. We're talking about fighting everywhere in the country, from big cities to small towns, everywhere. We've got to get the people to rise up everywhere.

We can look at this not as a maiden voyage, but as critically embarking on a journey whose destination has to be the end of Donald Trump. Bringing to an end as quickly as possible this era of racist and political repression that he is trying to impose upon us by executive fiat. So, it's important in this moment that, despite our differences, whether you believe fascism is already here or that it's coming, that it's an imminent threat or whatever. What's most important now in this moment is that we act. The best thing we can do now is to start this fight, to start this resistance everywhere. That's why our organization has called a national day of protest. That's why we're saying to all the strands of the people's movement that it's necessary to be a part of this protest.

If you stand against Trump, then you've got to stand with us.

While this day of action is being sparked by the 5th anniversary of the George Floyd Rebellion and this executive order, it's a spark that needs to further ignite a movement that is saying "END DONALD TRUMP'S RIGHT WING RACIST TERRORIST AGENDA!" Him wanting to be a king, him wanting to destroy every semblance of democracy that we have in this country in order to carry out his program, the program of billionaires, to loot the government, to rob the country, to economically enslave the people. We have to demand that this stop and stop now, and we have to demand that Congress act and act now. But we the people have to act first, we have to go into the streets and let it be known that this mode of government that you're talking about is totally unacceptable to us.

We are not going to stand for it.