A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II. The photo is in the National Archives, and is available for sharing online at Wikimedia Commons.

It CAN happen here. It HAS happened. And we refuse to learn from our barbarism in the past.

#fascism #cruelty #USA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland,_California._Kimiko_Kitagaki,_young_evacuee_guarding_the_family_baggage_prior_to_departure_._._._-_NARA_-_537890.jpg

I've had this #cartoon in my files for decades. It's no longer a cartoon but the reality many Americans voted for.
#election #politics #fascism #pollution #press #news #trump #corporatism

Another great success for #Biden's government, after helping the #genocide of #Palestinians by #Israel in #Gaza:

Defend democracy!
(some other day, maybe, or never)

4 years were not enough for his hand picked AG, Garland, to bring the fascist insurrectionist to justice. But "defend democracy" was on the ballot.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/special-counsel-jack-smith-seeks-pause-trumps-election-interference-cr-rcna179335

#USpol #fascism

"Aside from the horrific reality of Trump 2.0, the atrocities continue in the Middle East, Spain is drowning and the Crisafulli LNP Queensland Government is preparing to get “tough on crime” by locking up children as young as ten (which is already happening in the NT). Oh, and in case you missed it, overturning abortion is also back on the agenda up there."
#auspol #USA #election2024 #Harris #KamalaHarris #Trump #DonnieDiaper #ElonMusk #BatshitCrazy #LockHimUp #TrumpCrimeFamily #MAGAlies #Democracy #Fascism #AbolishElectoralCollege
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/trump-won--but-wait-albo-just-got-another-flight-upgrade,19150

📢

Stating the obvious for those who need to hear it:

Sharpen your critical thinking skills and

Never
believe
the
media

Never
Again

#Media #Fascism #USA #Canada

Welp, the #press #normalization of actual #fascism is off to a flying start 🤮

Mass deportation isn't "a huge challenge" that "requires collaboration" - it's literally impossible & trying to do it anyway will be a humanitarian disaster & also utterly destroy the entire US economy.

But sure, just let him say "no price tag" without pointing out that there is one & it's over a trillion excluding the concentration camps. And don't ask about the concentration camps.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-no-price-tag-mass-deportation-plan-rcna179178

Ok. #Trump won.
Quit bitching
& join the Resistance.
What #Resistance, you ask?
Well, do you think the #Italians & the #French went around asking "what Resistance?" in the 1920's as #fascism was spreading across #Europe??

If you can't find it, it means 1 of 2 things:

1) it's so well hidden, you can't find it.
But it's there. Look harder

2) it doesn't exist. Yet.
So build it. Reach out to other resisters. Meet. Discuss. Plan. Prepare.

I've said enough
___

#ResistanceIsNotFutile #StopFascism

#Toolkit: #Protest #safety tips from #Greenpeace

"Protest is a powerful strategy to demand #justice. Greenpeace has been holding and supporting protests around the world for nearly 50 years. Because of this, we’ve received requests and messages asking for advice on protest tactics, digital, and physical security against #militarized #police forces. While we have compiled this from a US point of view where this Greenpeace team is based, we hope some of what is here is helpful beyond the US.

"We are continuously learning, learning from mistakes, learning from each other. The #activists that make up our Greenpeace community, also come from many protest practices and methods, including #Indigenous-led resistance to #FossilFuel #extraction, the #ImmigrantRights movement, the Movement for Black Lives, [#BLM] and others. We wanted to share some of our learnings so that you can join us in protests that demand systemic changes from fighting for #ClimateJustice to dismantling #WhiteSupremacy. We support you and are fighting with you.

"We want to acknowledge that there are many different types of protest tactics, and that this is not an exhaustive list. We also want to acknowledge that communities of color, especially Black communities and other non-Black Indigenous and communities of color, are policed differently than white communities.

"When we protest we have an opportunity to demand the world we need and to understand how the issues we face are interconnected. As we fight for environmental justice, we show up for racial justice, Indigenous rights, immigrant rights, disability rights and more. While this guide focuses on protests, even if you are not able to join us in the street you can support those who are protesting by providing supplies, donating to bail funds, providing rides, having important conversations with your coworkers, friends, families, and neighbors.

"Also, we want to remind you that we are not your lawyers. This is not legal advice, any tips contained here are only to assist you in thinking through how to engage in protest activity. We urge you to connect with your local organizing and legal community for additional support."

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/toolkits/protest-safety-tips-from-greenpeace/

#DigitalFreeSpeech #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch #BigOilAndGas #SLAPPs

And how much economic damage is from climate change and pollution from #FossilFuels? #BigOil is the real criminal here!

#ClimateProtesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

By Kara Fox, CNN
September 14, 2024

London CNN — "As #RightWing rioters attacked communities with #racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old #ClimateActivist #CressieGethin sat in a prison cell.

"Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating #FossilFuel — in the #NorthSea.

"In late July, a London court found #Gethin and four other members of the #JustStopOil activist group guilty of 'conspiring intentionally to cause a #PublicNuisance,' after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.

"Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a #ZoomCall, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.

"Now Gethin and three others — Louise Lancaster, #DanielShaw and #LuciaWhittakerDeAbreu, who planned the disruption on the call — are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder #RogerHallam was given five years. All are appealing.

"The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for #nonviolent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged #policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.

"They place the act of planning a 'public nuisance' event, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, on a similar footing as #ViolentCrimes like robbery, for which punishments range from community service to 12 years’ jail, or rape, which is four to 19 years.

"The judge — who in court referred to the activists as '#extremists' — justified the long jail terms because all five activists had previously been convicted of one or more offenses in relation to direct action protest. Each were on bail for another set of proceedings when the Zoom call took place. He also noted people missed important doctor’s visits and funerals because of the protest.

"But activists like Gethin say their demonstrations are proportionate to the problem at hand — a rapidly warming world that threatens to transform life as we know it, through deadly #ExtremeWeather events and by pushing #ecosystems to their brinks. They are now battling the bolstered powers of the #police and courts to get their point across.

“'A very harsh sentence like this doesn’t make sense morally or legally — but it does make sense politically,' Gethin told CNN in a handwritten letter from HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison just south of London’s Heathrow Airport.

"The laws have drawn criticism from the UN’s special rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders, #MichaelForst, who said not only do they criminalize peaceful protest, but they are being enforced in 'punitive and repressive' ways."

Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/climate/uk-climate-protests-policing-laws-prison-intl/index.html

#BigOilAndGas #ClimateActivists #ClimateProtest #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism #WaterDefenders
#ClimateDefenders
#EnvironmentalActivists
#SilencingDissent #SLAPPs #ClimateActivists #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
#EarthDefenders
#SLAPPs #Fascism #CivilDisobedience
#Activism #ClimateStrike
#HumanRights #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #ClimateNecessityDefense #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe

And if the absolute weapon who delivered my shopping yesterday is any indication, it'll probably work.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/07/nigel-farage-populist-right-trump-win-build-momentum

#UKPolitics #Fascism

There's an interesting phenomenon. I saw it with France when the National Front arrived first in some of the recent elections, and now I see it with the US.

Everyone is blaming everyone else for the fascists winning, except... you know... the people who actually vote for the fascists and who want a fascist regime.

Maybe we could start with them, just saying.

#France#UnitedStates#fascism#election

“The Madison Square Garden rally, the increasingly unhinged speeches, the shocking vulgarity on full display—it was all there for everyone to see.

And, more than 50% of Americans saw it and said that’s exactly what they wanted.

I don’t have numbers yet, but I anticipate the white evangelical vote will be over 80%, white Catholic and mainline over 60%.”

~ Kristin Du Mez

#fascism #future #cruelty #Christians
/3

https://open.substack.com/pub/kristindumez/p/this-time-is-worse

For some of us now, for many of us, the question is,

How will we survive?

Or,

Will we survive?

#fascism #future
/1

"The pretence of an ideological rift between western leaders on the right and a supposed “left” evaporated overnight [after October 7]. They all belonged to the same war party; they all became devotees of the genocide party."

#UKPolitics #Fascism #USPolitics #GazaHolocaust

https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/gaza-israel-war-western-fascism-exposed-how

“There are really serious implications for LGBTQ communities in states where we’re seeing more severe restrictions from the legislative side. It also emboldens folks to go out and harass LGBTQ people, trans and gender non-conforming people within their own communities.”

In my latest for Austin Free Press, I took #GLAAD data on hate incidents and looked at how bigotry has manifested in Central #Texas. Incidents have included assault, protests, and even a murder. https://austinfreepress.org/legislating-intolerance-anti-lgbtq-legislation-tied-to-massive-rise-in-hate-incidents/

#extremism #Fascism #news #Austin #politics #USpol #TXlege #LGBTQIA+ #bigotry #homophobia #transphobia #trans #transgender #Republicans

Eight members of a German Nazi group calling itself “Saxon Separatists”have been arrested for plotting to violently seize territory and establish a new, “ethnically cleansed” Nazi state. Seven others are also under investigation; the group is said to have 15-20 members total.

The group, which reportedly organized paramilitary trainings, believes that Germany’s collapse is imminent. They expect that to happen on an undetermined “Day X” (German fascist paramilitaries seem to really love that term), which was going to be their moment to take over.

One of the arrestees was an AfD pol who has been working as the treasurer of the AfD youth org since last month.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/terrorismusverdacht-afd-politiker-soll-unter-festgenommenen-sein-110090450.html

#SaxonSeparatists #AfD #noAfD #Germany #fascism #NeoNazis #fcknzs #DayX #paramilitaries #separatism

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
VOTE!!!

Do it for yourself. Do it for all the women you love.

#Politics #USPolitics #USPol #News #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #Project2025 #Fascism

Last night, Israeli terror militias sneaked into the eastern area of Al-Bireh city in the occupied West Bank, setting parked vehicles and two residential apartments on fire. Luckily, no injuries have been reported in the aftermath.
https://t.me/QudsNen/131969
#Fascism #zioNaZis #nazis #israel

November 03, 2024
584 days ago, on March 30, 2023, Donald Trump was indicted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
2 days until 2024 election.
#Trump, #Insurrection #Fascism #2024Election

"#Fascism should rightly be called #Corporatism as it is a merge of state and #corporate power." - Benito Mussolini

#CorporateFascism #CorporatismIsFascism #Fascism #Mussolini #MussoliniQuote

Fascism starts slowly until it doesn't. Not only Bezos and the billionaires who are hedging and hoping to remain untouched/unharmed if trump wins. How about the National Archives rewriting — whitewashing — history —
https://thepit.social/@acdha/113414969541895673
h/t @acdha
[The Atlantic: What it feels like when Fascism starts https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/12/the-oppermanns-book-holocaust-nazi-fascism/672505/]
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #elections #Harris #Walz #HarrisWalz #vote #VoteBlue #VoteSmart #misinformation #disinformation #fascism

“Wannabe fascism is an incomplete version of fascism,” Finchelstein argues, “characteristic of those who seek to destroy democracy for short-term personal gain but are not fully committed to the fascist cause.”
#Fascism #election2024 #PoliSci #collapse #authoritarianism #Trumpism #populism #India #Russia #Brazil #Argentina #Indonesia #Israel
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/08/15/american-descent-wannabe-fascists-america-last/

#Israel, such a 'democratic' place - 'Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin is calling for a 20-year prison sentence for citizens who call for sanctions against the state – be it sanctions against its leaders, military personnel, or citizens.' https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israeli-justice-minister-calls-for-20-year-prison-sentence-for-citizens-promoting-sanctions-against-the-state/ #fascism #BDS

If voting for #KamalaHarris makes you feel nice because it lets you pretend youre stopping #fascism... protecting women... minorities or helping... #Gaza or whatever...

If voting... Donald #Trump makes you feel nice because it lets you pretend youre sticking it to the establishment or punishing the #Democrats... or...

This whole spectacle is exclusively about feelings.

Vote However You Feel; This Whole Show Is About Feelings Anyway –#CaitlinJohnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/11/02/vote-however-you-feel-this-whole-show-is-about-feelings-anyway/ #IdentityPolitics

While *on air* ⬆️, #HughHewitt rage-quit his written and #livestream commentary gig at the #WashingtonPost because he didn’t like being #FactChecked by a #Black man and a #Jewish woman. 🤔 That checks out. ✅

#VoteBlueNoMatterWho to #SaveAmerica from #fascism and the #MAGA cult of #garbage. #USpol

Interview: Nina Turner: “The Racism of MAGA Is as American as Apple Pie”

Turner says comparisons of MAGA to "the rise of Nazi Germany threaten to whitewash the US's own anti-democratic history:

"The unfulfilled promises of this country, the undealt-with anti-Blackness & other types of racism & bigotry have not been dealt with sufficiently.

"It is us, & we need to deal with it & not push it off on some other nation.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/31/2024_election_nina_turner

#USPol #Racism #Trump #MAGA #Fascism .

I saw people on Mastodon today saying essentially this or that won't happen if Trump gets into the White House again because this or that is too outlandish or extreme, that could never happen. Let's not forget that our worst intelligence failures have been failures of imagination. And let's not forget that in a matter of a few months Germany fell completely to a dictator. Whatever you can imagine Trump might be able to do with the levers of power, and how quickly, perhaps you haven't imagined enough.
#fascism

Interview: Nina Turner: “The Racism of MAGA Is as American as Apple Pie”

Turner says comparisons of MAGA to "the rise of Nazi Germany threaten to whitewash the US's own anti-democratic history:

"The unfulfilled promises of this country, the undealt-with anti-Blackness & other types of racism & bigotry have not been dealt with sufficiently.

"It is us, & we need to deal with it & not push it off on some other nation.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/31/2024_election_nina_turner

#USPol #Racism #Trump #MAGA #Fascism .

Interview: Ruth Ben-Ghiat: "Trump’s Dehumanizing Rhetoric Is Adopting Franco’s Language of Fascism & Violence"

"Trump’s use of the hallmarks of fascism & violence, including dehumanizing rhetoric, profane & crude discriminatory language & threats to the enemy within, echoes the rise of midcentury fascist rulers like Francisco Franco & Adolf Hitler."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/29/2024_election_fascism_authoritarianism

#Trump #Fascism #USPol #Racism #Franco #WhiteSupremacy .

SMILE slaves! Either Way YOU GET #FASCISTS #Racists, and #Genocide this #sElection cycle. #uselection #election2024 #KamalaHarris #Trump #DonaldTrump #Harris #Fascism #Democrats #Republicans #DNC #GOP #Palestine #Gaza

#Fascism must fail.

It's become increasingly common, in these closing days of the campaign, to hear fmr Trump officials & high-ranking MIL leaders describe his rhetoric & behavior as fascist. #Harris has said -she agrees with the characterization, while describing TFG as a dictator in waiting.

Will truth-telling come back? Rs & #TFG, who've undermined #democracy, must suffer the consequences of their misdeeds: ousted from public office, for felonies: imprisoned.

#USPol https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/trump-vance-johnson-gop-fascism/

and each of them reminds us #how #capitalism has deranged humanity toward #fascism

I love Love LOVE that they're so terrified of us!! 👬 💞 👭

#Queer #LGBT #Pride #Rainbow #Florida #Fascism

I confirm, everything the professor says is absolutely true, here in Ukraine, after the #Maidan 2014 government coup, the order and dictatorship of the oligarchs became like in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Only he does not mention President bloody confectioner #Poroshenko, who is responsible for shelling the inhabitants of eastern Ukraine (Donbass) from 2014 to 2019. It was because of Poroshenko bloodthirsty Russophobia that Zelensky won over 70% of the vote in the presidential election.
The presenter is a bit mistaken, there was no territory of Ukraine until the 20th century, for hundreds of years it was Malorossia ( #littleRussia ), with urban population predominantly Russian.

#USA #Pentagon #CIA #NSA #Gladio #NATO #EU #failstate #ukraine #oligarchy #corruption #anti-Russia #Donbass #ukrainian #nazi #neo-nazi #Zelensky minion of #Kolomoysky sponsor of #Right-Sector #Azov #Svoboda #fascism #zionism #anticommunism #USSR #history #Western #terrorism #mindmanipulation #propaganda #war #infowar #economicwar #capitalism #imperialism against #Russia again

"Reminder: If we don’t have Ukrainians killing Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine with American weapons, Russia will first invade Europe, then America, then the world." https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/1208486243530444800

Ukraine can’t defeat Russia no matter how many American military advisers train Ukrainian troops or how many millions the good and totally not corrupt people at Raytheon Inc make selling their Javelins. The point isn’t for Ukraine to win the war. The point is to make Russia bleed — economically and militarily. And it doesn’t matter how many people die or suffer or how much of Ukraine and its economy is laid to waste in the process.

As I’ve written in bits and pieces before on here before, America’s foreign policy establishment — its diplomats, spies, and politicians — have seen Ukraine as a key field of battle against the Soviet Union going back to late 1940s. For decades, Ukraine and its diaspora were considered prime weapons for destabilizing the Soviet Union. It’s why America, Canada, the UK, and other western countries opened their doors to Ukrainian fascists and Nazi collaborators after World War II. Their hardcore ideology and their willingness to die for their lost nationalist cause were seen as important qualities in the fight against communism. Some of the earliest covert armed CIA operations against the Soviet Union involved parachuting Ukrainian Nazi collabo guerrillas behind Soviet lines to sabotage and whip up rebellion among Ukrainian peasants.

#CIA #western #us #canada #uk #ukrainian #puppets #fascism #nazism on #civilwar against #russian #Donbass #Russia after #Maidan #soviet #USSR #history

February 20, 1933: At a meeting between Hitler and industrialists, campaign aid of three million Reichsmarks is demanded for the NSDAP and the Black-White-Red Campaign Front for the upcoming Reichstag elections.
#history #germany #money #capitalism #imperialism #fascism