From FRSO Fightback:
Dear comrades and friends –
Last week, Donald Trump won the election for president. Having run a campaign filled with hate, his victory was shocking. In response, a million people have taken to the streets since then – from Chicago to New York, Minneapolis to East Los Angeles, Salt Lake City to Miami to Houston – rejecting his racist, homophobic, and sexist agenda.
The people have shown the way: we need to Fight Back!
And so we write to remind you to attend the 25th Annual People’s Thanksgiving Dinner. We gather each year to reflect on the struggles waged, victories won, and challenges ahead. We started this tradition 25 years ago as an act of solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the Americas. We gather this year as the biggest upsurge of struggle of Native Americans in generations is taking place in Standing Rock, North Dakota.
And while Trump’s election is terrible news, there is a wave of struggle that we need to join and build. As Freedom Road Socialist Organization said in our statement responding Trump’s victory, “He is not our president. We need to do everything we can to drown his administration in a high tide of struggle and fightbacks.”
Gather together with us in the spirit of the working class martyr, Joe Hill: “Don’t Mourn, Organize.”
In struggle –
Joe Iosbaker, Freedom Road Socialist Organization
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25th Annual People’s Thanksgiving Dinner
Program to include: Speech by Frank Chapman, Freedom Road Socialist Organization
“The election of Donald Trump and the Struggle Ahead”
Special guest:
Standing Rock Sioux Historian, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
With introductory remarks by Chicago’s own Rasmea Odeh
We’ll also present our annual awards to honor local activists:
- Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter
(Accepting the award on Aislinn’s behalf will be Kofi Ademola Xola)
- Michael Brunson, CTU Recording Secretary and Chair of the CTU Black Caucus
(Accepting the award on Michael’s behalf will be Margo Murray, Vice Chair of the Black Caucus)
- Dave Bernt of Teamsters United
- Juan Rojas and Cassie Robledo, students who helped Shut Down Trump at UIC this spring
Musical performances by KoStar
And an activity for children organized by AnakBayan, the Filipino patriotic youth organization, that teaches about the struggles of indigenous people from Standing Rock to the Philippines.
25th Annual People’s Thanksgiving Dinner
Fundraiser for Fight Back! /¡Lucha y Resiste! Newspaper
Hosted by Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Saturday, November 19th, 2016
4:00 – 8:00 pm
Dinner at 5:00 pm, Program at 5:30
Location: Teamster City, Basement Level, 300 S. Ashland
Tickets: $30
Please RSVP
Includes dinner. $5 for little children & the unemployed. Cash Bar.
To order tickets, and if you need childcare, email joeiosbaker@gmail.com
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