Urgent Message From Socialist Alternative About The Anti-Fascist Struggle In Ohio-Video: Right Wing Death Threats and Intimidation
Video: Right Wing Death Threats and Intimidation
Video: Right Wing Death Threats
& Government Intimidation
In Ohio, Movement for the 99% and Socialist Alternative are in a struggle against the Right and the local ruling elite over removing a Robert E. Lee plaque. One of our organizers has received death threats and his name, address and phone number were put online by white nationalists and the Vice Mayor of the City of Franklin. We Are launching a
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NATIONAL SOLIDARITY CALL-IN CAMPAIGN
**UPDATE: If you can't reach the Mayor of Franklin - please send a text or email (sample text/email below) to the Mayor.**
**We also strongly encourage everyone to call or text one of the City Council members of Franklin (phone numbers below) to help apply pressure to keep the Confederate plaque off public or private land and to force out of office Vice Mayor Bray.**
Friends,
In Ohio, Movement for the 99%, Socialist Alternative, and other community members are in a struggle against the Right and the local ruling elite over removing a plaque commemorating Robert E. Lee.
In this struggle, one of our community organizers has been targeted by the Right with death threats - the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, potentially members of a local militia, and the Three Percenters.
Our community organizer has also been intimidated by the Vice Mayor of the City of Franklin. The Vice Mayor posted our organizer’s name and phone number on Facebook and appealed for people to call him in retaliation for leading the effort to remove the plaque. (Read more for full background).
The Right is mobilized to protect the plaque and is emboldened by Trump’s incendiary bigotry and his pardoning of arch-racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio to threaten the Left. The far right has shown up to City Council and other government meetings in force, with confederate flags, wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, and some of them carrying guns. They have also physically and verbally confronted our organizers and community members opposed to the plaque.
We are launching a National Solidarity Call-In Campaign, starting on Monday, August 28 and ending on Friday, September 1 during business hours (9am - 5pm, Eastern Standard Time), that primarily targets the Mayor of the City of Franklin. (See script and contact information below). To track our progress, we are asking that everyone indicate on the Facebook Event Page that they called into or emailed the Mayor.
This solidarity campaign is vital for protecting this community organizer - but also for pushing back the intimidation tactics of the far right - as well as settling the removal of the Confederate plaque.
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Who to call:
Primary Focus of Call-In Campaign:
Denny Centers - Mayor
513-460-4100 (cell)
dcenters@franklinohio.org
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Send text message to Mayor (or City Council member):
NO Confederate Plaque! NO Death Threats & Intimidation! VM Bray posting organizer name & phone is unacceptable! Remove Bray as VM & say NO threats & NO plaque!
**We also strongly encourage everyone to call or text one of the City Council members of Franklin (phone numbers below). This will help apply pressure to keep the Confederate plaque off public or private land and to force out of office Vice Mayor Bray.**
Brent Centers - City Council
937-620-1872 (cell)
bcenters@franklinohio.org
Michael Aldridge
937-704-0452 (home)
maldridge@franklinohio.org
Deborah Flouts
937-241-6562 (cell)
dfouts@franklinohio.org
Paul Ruppert
937-746-2237 (home)
rruppert@franklinohio.org
Todd Hall
937-746-7949 (home)
thall@franklinohio.org
Carl Bray - Vice Mayor
513-465-7772 (cell)
cbray@franklinohio.org
TEXT to VM Bray: NO Confederate Plaque! NO Death Threats & Intimidation! Posting organizer name & phone is unacceptable! Bray Resign as Vice Mayor! & say NO threats & Plaque!
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Script (or cut and paste and send as an email):
“Hi, my name is [First name] and I oppose the City of Franklin returning the Robert E. Lee plaque for public display.
I’m also calling to express my outrage at the conduct of Vice Mayor Carl Bray. His intimidation tactics of publicly sharing the name and phone number of the community organizer leading the effort to remove the plaque and asking people to call him in retaliation is absolutely unacceptable behavior for an elected official, especially after the violence and murder committed by white nationalists in Charlottesville.
I call on you, the Mayor of the City of Franklin (or I call on you, a City Council member), to:
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Make a public commitment to never put the Robert E. Lee plaque back on public or private land and to
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I call on you and the City Council to remove Carl Bray as Vice Mayor and to select a new Vice Mayor. (the council can do this). I call on you and the City Council to condemn Bray for using his office and authority to intimidate.
Finally, I call on you:
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to issue a statement in solidarity with those who stood against the racist and violent white nationalist demonstrations in Charlottesville and condemn local threats of right wing extremism and violence directed at any resident of Franklin or the surrounding areas.
Will you do this?”
For full background: https://goo.gl/vg85Rd
In Solidarity,
Bryan
Organizer
P.S. We are also asking for you to contribute $25, $50, or $100 for legal expenses, an emergency fund to protect our organizers against physical threat, and to help support a rally in the City of Franklin.
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