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America at 250: Trump Fascism, Historical Erasure and the Battle Over Truth
Friday, June 26
6pm
Independence Mall
The Fight Over Black History, National Memory, and America’s Future
A population taught comforting lies about the past is more easily mobilized to accept repression in the present—and atrocities in the future.
On the eve of July 4th, against the backdrop of Independence Hall and the Trump-censored President’s House memorial—where enslaved Africans were held in bo***ge as the foundations of the American republic were laid—Refuse Fascism convenes an urgent outdoor public panel:
Featuring:
Michael Coard, Attorney and founder of Avenging the Ancestors Coalition. He helped win the creation of the President’s House slavery memorial and is now leading the fight to stop its dismantling by the Trump Regime and defend the public telling of slavery’s history at Independence Mall.
Masaru Edmund Nakawatase, Japanese American civil rights organizer, educator, and peace advocate born in the Poston incarceration camp in Arizona during World War II. Learn more
Dread Scott, visual artist whose work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial, the Whitney Museum and has been outlawed by the US Congress.
Facilitator: Sam Goldman, Host of the Refuse Fascism Podcast
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