A compendium of protest actions with emphasis on the Kremlin Annex protest in front of the White House
(2) We believe this administration, this President in particular, is:
• Acting outside the Constitution
• Violating international agreements
• Betraying our country’s allies
• Overall acting immorally, illegally, & counter to America’s founding principles
• Abusing power.
(3) Specifically, we believe this White House can be described as an authoritarian regime that
• Is actively promoting factionalism and violence in our nation, including white nationalism, and is actively eroding natural rights and the general welfare of the nation.
(4) • Has been facilitating coordinated efforts to corrupt our election processes & outcomes, including the 2016 presidential election.
• Is compromised by at least one foreign state power.
• Has been coordinating with organized crime associates.
(5) • Uses nepotism to keep questionable presidential decisions and misbehavior in the family.
• Uses the authority of office for personal gains.
(6) • Is committing what the United Nations describes as crimes against humanity by criminalizing asylum seekers and irresponsibly separating children from families and institutionalizing them.
(7) •Lies to a shocking degree on a continual basis.
• Threatens members of free press, incites mistreatment of journalists, and calls them “the enemy of the people”.
(8) • Repeatedly obstructs justice, including attempts to prevent official investigations into its conduct.
• Mimics the pattern of authoritarian regimes, often sides with anti-democratic heads of state.
(9) We remind everyone who supports us and who disagrees with us that we are here to protest, not to debate.
We will assume provocative questions are attempts to disrupt and perhaps to instigate altercations.
(10) We will not engage in such questions because (1) we will not be deterred and (2) we will not allow an opportunity for the Secret Service or Park Police officers to misinterpret our words or behavior as being personally aggressive.
(11) If you want to know more, then listen, read our signs, or inquire at
(12) We encourage people not to join our protest if they are under the influence of alcohol, illegal drugs or any other substances that might put us and them in undesirable public situation.
(13) Also, obscenities are discouraged. If anyone of our group accidentally slips out a swear word, we apologize in advance.
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In October 2017, some members of Gays Against Guns began writing Christmas carols about gun violence for an action called GAG Nog. We’d written about a dozen songs when the unthinkable happened—Trump was elected. We quickly turned our brains to music that captured our mood, and survived that very bleak December belting “Donny the Con Man” at Christmas markets around New York.
Mark Thompson heard us at one summer march, and before we knew it we were on Sirius XM’s Make It Plain. By the fall of 2017, we decided it to spin off from GAG. The Reflex became Sing Out, Louise! That may seem odd as a resistance credo, a line from a Broadway show, but to us it resonates: Get out there—make your voice heard! And that’s what we’re all about. We aren’t necessarily pretty, and we’re never polite. We don’t care if you can't sing a note—we want you to take the hymnal and sing along. We are reclaiming our time and having a blast doing it.
www.singoutlouisenyc.org
September featured Kathy Griffin
The performance was part of a series of daily demonstrations that have taken place in front of the White House since President Trump’s meeting in Helsinki, Finland, with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Monday was the 22nd night of the protests, which have been named the Kremlin Annex.
The cast members — who hailed from current and past runs of “Wicked,” “The Lion King,” “Hamilton,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and other shows — belted out songs meant to evoke a political edge or offer a tinge of hope for the hundreds of protesters who are disillusioned by Mr. Trump (who was in New Jersey during the performance). With demonstrators often singing along, the five-song set included climactic Broadway tunes such as “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from “Les Misérables” and “Everybody Rejoice/A Brand New Day” from “The Wiz.”
Ms. O’Donnell, who has been an adversary of Mr. Trump’s for more than a decade, organized the trip with James Wesley, the producer of Sirius XM’s “On Broadway,” and the show’s host, Seth Rudetsky, a fixture of the Broadway scene.
The first two Baby Trump balloons have officially arrived in the New Jersey town where the president spent the first half of the month on vacation, and more are on the way.
Girvan said organizations, rather than individuals, will be considered to receive the babies, as he wants them to get as much play as possible. Interested parties can apply at babytrumptour(at)gmail.com.
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This week we speak with General Michael Hayden as well as the guys behind the #KremlinAnnex protests, Adam Parkhomenko, John Aravosis, joined by Jeff Crile. If you like the show, leave us a review! Enjoy and see you next week.
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