Inside the Left’s Plans to Occupy Trump
Veterans of Occupy Wall Street are dusting off an old protest tactic for a new era.
By TAYLOR GEE
August 23, 2017
NEW YORK — One week after Charlottesville, “the Resistance” is planning its next move. Members of a group calling itself “Refuse 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.”
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