NO TO RACISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA AND AUSTERITY!
After the Trump election: where do we go from here?
The unbelievable has happened. The man who called for deporting all 12 million undocumented immigrants, banning Muslims from entering the country, and bragged about getting away with sexual assault has just been elected to be President of the United States.
It is time for us all to take stock of how this could happen…. and how we can challenge a Trump presidency every step of the way.
While the open bigots of the so-called alt-right have been a notable element of Trump’s supporters, racism alone can’t explain why states and counties that voted for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012 turned away from the Democrats this time.
Economic decline and insecurity clearly drove a vote against the status quo. Trump exploited this sentiment with his false promises to renegotiate trade deals to bring back jobs and “make America great again”. For millions of people at their end of their rope financially, Clinton had nothing to offer besides not being Trump. In the end, that was not enough.
The reality is that Trump represents the same 1% billionaire class that so many voters were rebelling against. The question is, can we build a movement to effectively challenge the racist scapegoating and fear-mongering and put forth a real economic alternative to the misery in people’s lives?
Please join us for an evening of discussion and strategy.
Speaker: Ragina Johnson, a long-standing activist with the ISO. Her articles on Indigenous rights and ecological justice have appeared in Jacobin, International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, and Truthout and recently was part of an ISO delegation to Standing Rock.
This evening event is being organized by the Bay Area District of the International Socialist Organization and is part of a day-long Marxism Day School (Bay Area)
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