Pastor Gregg L. Greer: Appeal to people of faith!
December 24, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
from RefuseFascism.org:
Donald Trump, the President-elect, is assembling a regime of grave danger. Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world are filled with deep anxiety, fear, and disgust. Our anguish is right and just. Our anger must now become massive resistance – before Donald Trump is inaugurated and has the full reins of power in his hands.
Should we fail to rise with determination and daring in our millions now to stop this, the consequences for humanity will be disastrous. We, the undersigned, know in the depths of our beings, the catastrophe that will befall the people of the world should the Trump/Pence regime assume full power.
We therefore CALL FOR A MONTH OF RESISTANCE beginning on December 19th, reaching a crescendo by the January 20th, 2017 Inauguration.
Read more at RefuseFascism.org.
Yesterday, the Presidential Elect shocked many when he sent a tweet addressing the need for more nuclear weapons.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. argued for the centrality of his anti-militarism advocacy most eloquently on April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift”—are a recipe, he said, for certain “spiritual death.”
I believe the major issue on hand is that there is no actual justification for such a public notice, in addition the timing seems suspect. This move has many concerned, and that this is not the process of a rational thinker at all. Even if we needed more nuclear weaponry—is this something to broadcast willy-nilly over a tweet? This is wrong on so many levels.
In the light of the foregoing we urge all people of faith to stand with us now to send a clear and resounding message to following:
We must see the urgency of the moment, then RISE UP and say to Mr. Trump and his entire cabinet and supporters, “WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA—In the name of all that we value, in the name of humanity!”
Pastor Gregg L. Greer, President of Freedom First International (SCLC)
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