NYC: MLK Day Begins #DaysOfRage Against Trump, Racism & Capitalism

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NYC activists call for #DaysOfRage against capitalism, racism, Trump and white supremacy

As the great leader, thinker, and revolutionary Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday draws near, we recognize that the United States still operates on white supremacist, racist, colonialist, and exploitative institutions. For this reason, we are calling for a week of action under the hashtag #DaysOfRage.

The Days of Rage will be a series of events and actions designed to call out these inequities and evils in all their forms—including the Trump Administration itself—and demand that they be abolished. The initial action will begin on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with a labor rally at Columbus Circle in support of striking Spectrum workers – currently the largest strike in the United States. This rally will also be in solidarity with striking incarcerated workers in Florida, who labor under conditions correctly labeled “Modern-day Slavery”.

Day of Rage disruptions will run throughout the week, culminating on Saturday, January 20th at Grand Central station to mark the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, where over 200 protestors were arrested in an effort to chill our resistance.

Just this week, Trump denigrated the entire African continent, Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras, Yemen and Syria, referring to them as “shitholes” in a naked display of racism and white supremacist hatred. These sentiments are nothing new to a man who rose to power on the backs of the oppressed. Trump gives power to bigots to voice what they previously kept private, actively works to wrest away the rights and autonomy of marginal people, and to enact dangerous, racist, white supremacist policies on a horrifyingly broad scale. As People’s Power Assembly NYC organizer/activist Christian Cobb has said, “We must make racists afraid again.”

We are calling for the people to join us—as radicals, as revolutionaries, as fellow workers and fellow humans. We are in solidarity and struggle with the movement for Black lives, our family in Puerto Rico, our comrades and allies in Palestine, with the Queer and Women’s liberation struggle, the migrant struggle, dignity and life for the workers, and for accessibility and real livable wages for us all, and the right for all oppressed people to resist.

Visit the website j20resist.org and consult the hashtag #DaysOfRage for more information.