Read our full press release here:
— For immediate release —
What: celebration of the federal indictment of Trump and anti-fascist action against his supporters
When: Tuesday 6/13 @ 2pm
Where: Wilkie D Ferguson Federal Courthouse
The end of sovereign immunity, in solidarity with political prisoners
“You have to embrace the contradiction” - Angela Davis, on hoping for a harsh sentence against Dereck Chauvin even as an abolitionist.
As fun as it is to poke fun at the fall of a fascist, Trump will never spend a day inside federal prison. We know not what country club retreat would serve as incarceration for a former president even in his worst dreams, but it would never look anything like the unspeakable violence done to working class folx in this country, targets of political repression, and primarily, BIPOC. This illegitimate system of injustice has been built and upheld by both parties and the ruling class in order to effectuate their genocidal, politicidal, and controlling whims.
Nevertheless, we celebrate that the ruling class have turned against one of their own and in doing so weakened the argument for Sovereign Immunity — this land has no monarch! Sovereign immunity lives in the US Constitution, a relic of British royalism, in the passages protecting the president from civil lawsuits. However in the post-war period of ever-expanding powers of the Executive Branch and Federal Law Enforcement budgets, fascism has taken root: law enforcement at all levels of government refuse to prosecute presidents, former and current.
Once before the ruling class considered prosecution of a former president yet swift partisan action — a pardon — stabilized the nation without need to answer the question of sovereign immunity. In today's world, partisan politics are the best distraction from nonpartisan decisions like mass deportations, mass incarceration, warmongering, and exploitation. Therefore let all people laugh and rejoice as the ruling class declares one of their own subject to the rule of law just so that they might distract us from their true crimes. They’re afraid!
We celebrate this small step towards the abolition of the president! This governmental office has murdered untold millions. It is safe to say that most of the presidents since WWII are personally responsible for the murder of more than 10 million people, including Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. This current president’s fabricated famine in Afghanistan alone has murdered hundreds of thousands — especially children. Furthermore the American presidential system of republic has been tried in many other countries and yet has failed without exception because it’s very easy to become a dictator as president. The US is the only country to survive more than 50 years and continue to exist today.
We are jubilant that the ruling class is so terrified of the people that they sacrifice a small measure of authoritarianism to claim that the rule of law is legitimate even as we know this to be a lie, a distraction, a frail claim of an endangered few. We see the impacts of the prison industrial complex everywhere that we look and will not be satisfied with but one head on a platter! The whims of the oligarchs do not constitute justice — justice is only in the liberation of the people!
We should be satisfied with the prosecution of Trump because he swiped some documents? What about his many other crimes? He starved Iran! He assassinated Michael Reinoehl and Winston Smith Jr.! What about the other presidents? The invasion of Iraq was a war crime! Title 42 was a genocide! So is the Crime Bill! No! You are not forgiven! We may dance in the streets today but expect us tomorrow.
We will not be satisfied with law enforcement either! We are living in a wave of repression. Everywhere we look in this country, our communities are under threat rarely by losers holding nazi flags and often by police and federal agencies as they build a fascist police state. Their arrest of Trump shall not change their role in oppressing people across the country. It shall not lessen their ever-growing budgets. It shall not whoo us from demanding that black people are not murdered, declaring that cop city Atlanta shall never be built, or demanding investigation into federal law enforcement collusion with the January 6th Insurrection. And we will not forget those of us that they have brutalized, kidnapped, and murdered.
Therefore today, on June 11th the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, we call for this protest to stand in solidarity with actual political prisoners and against the interests of the ruling class and their police! Drop the charges against the Florida Four! Drop the charges against the Tampa Five! Drop the charges against the Uhuru Three! Drop the charges against forest defenders in Atlanta! We shall fight until every last prison has burned, until every last cage is empty!
And of course, trump, fuck you!
Florida Four: https://linktr.ee/sfl_arc
Tampa Five: https://www.instagram.com/p/Csbw8VAJJVr/
Uhuru Three: https://handsoffUhuru.org
Stop Cop City Atlanta: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/