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January 17, 2017

Protesters Nationwide Launch Campaign to #InaugurateTheResistance
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In Washington, D.C., thousands of activists chanting "No justice, no
peace" kicked off a week of resistance to the inauguration with a march
to the Capitol Building on Saturday. The protest took aim at Trump's
plans for a nationwide stop-and-frisk program, the planned repeal of the
Affordable Care Act, and police brutality. The protest was the first of
a series of actions being organized under the hashtag "#Inaugurate The
Resistance." In Brooklyn, New York, hundreds packed a weekend
"Propaganda Party" to create fliers and protest art ahead of the
inauguration.

Josh Mac Phee: "My name is Josh Mac Phee. I'm a volunteer at
Interference Archive, and this is our Inaugurating Resistance Propaganda
Party. We did one in the summer around mass incarceration, in the fall
around climate justice and the pipeline struggles, and then this one is
obviously around the inauguration. And this is by far the most
successful. I think that we've had at least 500 people in both days. And
the role of art is to support, I mean, in often cases, movements that
have already been happening, that I actually think we need to just keep
the pressure on and the energy on the places that we've already been
organizing. There's already a massive movement around immigration and
trying to change immigration in this country. That shouldn't just
reorient towards Trump. People are already moving in a direction. We
just need to keep fighting."



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