Inauguration Day: Call for General Strike and Day of Action

A call for a national and global day of action is being circulated for January 20th, 2017—inauguration day. Fellow Jesus radicals are encouraged to join this day of resistance in whatever way possible—be it conveneing with the main mobilization in Washington D.C. or by organizing collective actions and demonstrations locally whereever you are. Additionally we encourage all to participate in the inauguration day  General Strike to bring business as usual to a screeching halt. As the collective witholding of our labor is one of the most effective weapons we possess against those who exploit and claim mastery over us, a mass refusal to work on January 20th will send a clear message that we refuse to tolerate the rampantly white-supremacist, hyper-nationalist, anti-immigrant, and anti-muslim vision of America being heralded by this changing of the guard. Join us in this commitment for no work, no school, no shopping to instead hit the streets and demonstrate our collective power.

National actions are being organized through DisruptJ20.org  and the related Facebook Event Page which can be used to get more information about and plugin to the main mobilization in Washington D.C. as well as other local actions and events across the nation.

The original call to action from #DisruptJ20:

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We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over. It must be made clear to the whole world that the vast majority of people in the United States do not support his presidency or consent to his rule.

Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny. He is the champion of neo-nazis and white Nationalists, of the police who kill the Black, Brown and poor on a daily basis, of racist border agents and sadistic prison guards, of the FBI and NSA who tap your phone and read your email.

He is the harbinger of even more climate catastrophe, deportation, discrimination, and endless war. He continues to deny the existence of climate change, in spite of all the evidence, putting the future of the whole human race at stake.The KKK, Vladimir Putin, Golden Dawn, and the Islamic State all cheered his victory. If we let his inauguration go unchallenged, we are opening the door to the future they envision.
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Trump’s success confirms the bankruptcy of representative democracy. Rather than using the democratic process as an alibi for inaction, we must show that no election could legitimize his agenda. Neither the Democrats nor any other political party or politician will save us—they just offer a weaker version of the same thing. If there is going to be a positive change in this society, we have to make it ourselves, together, through direct action.
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From day one, the Trump presidency will be a disaster. #DisruptJ20 will be the start of the resistance. We must take to the streets and protest, blockade, disrupt, intervene, sit in, walk out, rise up, and make more noise and good trouble than the establishment can bear. The parade must be stopped. We must delegitimize Trump and all he represents. It’s time to defend ourselves, our loved ones, and the world that sustains us as if our lives depend on it—because they do.