'Silence Not an Option': Calls Grow to Disrupt Trump Inauguration

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'Silence Not an Option': Calls Grow to Disrupt Trump Inauguration
Nadia Prupis
Common Dreams

The call to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is growing with the help of documentary filmmaker and activist Michael Moore, who on Wednesday tweeted a grassroots group's plans for direct actions on January 20, 2017.

Although Trump won the Electoral College, his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton took the popular vote by more than 2 million—which means Trump will enter office with low ratings and no mandate. Grassroots activists organizing a mobilization known as #DisruptJ20 are hoping to call attention to this dynamic through a series of protests, direct actions, and other events on inauguration day.

The organizers, known as the D.C. Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee, "call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over. It must be made clear to the whole world that the vast majority of people in the United States do not support his presidency or consent to his rule."

[uponit7771]

1. Every time someone gets a chance make sure he knows he's not liked amount MOST Americans

[livetohike]

2. We have to do something. We can't just let it happen as if we are okay with this.

Have to make sure the world knows the majority of us do not support this joke.

[sfwriter]

3. Book up the hotel rooms and then cancel just before the deadline?

Switch the decaf and caffeinated labels on the hotel coffee carafes?

Post bogus directions to the inauguration online and on twitter?

Post the wrong time on twitter?

Suffer a "breakdown" in your car on the main area on ramps, off ramps and access roads?

Post directions to the open carry rally at the white house in the afternoon?

Post directions to the "best" restaurants in the city in the roughest parts of town?

Post bogus traffic alerts to waze?

[democrank]

4. Non-violent resistance

No fake news, no fake anything, no violence, just the people telling the truth and standing their principled ground.

[4139]

5. The Women's March Jan 21 is a great idea, disrupting the inauguration on the 20th is a BAD idea

Disrupting on the 20th will only help Trump

[handmade34]

10. disagree

this inauguration is 'not normal' and should be called out for the sham it is

[barbtries]

15. i don't think it's a bad idea

i do think it will be portrayed that way in the media. gwbush's inauguration was accompanied by an absolutely huge protest and most people don't even know it happened.

i also think you will not be able to keep the people away. this is the sacred 1st amendment right in action.

i'll be in DC for the women's march the next day but hope to take my granddaughter sightseeing away from the crowds on the 20th.

last thought: i read that trump's team had been granted all the space around the inauguration to either permit protests or not. if that's true, i'm thinking it would be a "not." because they don't give a rat's ass about the constitution.

[4139]

20. It is normal for the park service to block out areas after a big event ...

It takes a lot of time to remove bleachers, barricades, clean, remove portajohns, repair any damages... and get it done by Monday rush hours

If I'm not scheduled to work I'll be there Saturday

[McKim]

6. Let them spin it!

Let them spin it how they want to, it is important to be out in the streets, Trumpsters are gonna do what they do no matter what. Don't be afraid of how they will spin it. My god, the whole world is watching. Time to stand up1

[Blue Idaho]

7. Donald Trump is the President of the Divided States of America

His inauguration should reflect that.

[turbinetree]

8. I live 90 miles from Washington and I am going with a sign that says

What does Chief Justice John Roberts & Donald Trump have in Common


They are both Racists and Fascists

One gutted the Voting Rights Act
The other one attacks people of color


F*** them both and the horse they road in on

[mainstreetonce]

9. What do we do if we can't be there?

Wear black everywhere? Could there be a color of ribbon everyone would wear orca color of a banner or balloon we could tie to every tree?

Maybe something like purple for protest? Or would bright blue be better?

Maybe hats since it will be cold?

If we could organize an idea early enough we get a site that does custom merchandise to sell huge quantities?

[woodchuck mom]

13. a suggestion

On 1/20/17 we are planning to hang an American flag upside down. It is a distress signal. My country should be very distressed about Trumperius Nero's Triumph, sorry, inauguration.

[barbtries]

16. i like this.

it will indeed be a bad, bad day for America

not again!

[handmade34]

11. we must do this!!

https://vimeo.com/191197865

[Fritz Walter]

12. A couple of suggestions

1. Line Pennsylvania Avenue with women who will greet Drumpf with "pinky waves." Hell, for that matter, men can join in that allusion to his undersized appendage.

In fact, that might become a new tradition whenever he shows his mangled-apricot face in public. Everybody who isn't a brown-shirt gives him a pinky wave. Everywhere. Every time.

2. Borrow a technique from Mahatma Gandhi: declare January 20 a national day of prayer and fasting. For atheists and agnostics, it could mean a day of meditation and reflection. Of course, that mean nobody works that day, especially public servants (first-responders and hospital staff excluded). We wouldn't call it a general strike, but the effect would be the same.

[mainstreetonce]

17. I like the idea if wearing a color or a ribbon

Because even people who have to go to work or school could do it.

I do not like upside down flags.

If we had a color ..blue? We could tie it on cars everywhere,and trees-and bushes and road signs , the message would get back to him and anger him.

[cab67]

19. black

[colsohlibgal]

14. Resist And Keep Resisting

I see the Gropenfuhrer's storm troopers have filed to keep demonstrations out of the usual places for a period of time before and after the installation.

Good luck with that, get ready to go to court. I will be there for the Women's March with a progressive friend and hopefully hundreds of thousands of gals will show up.

And stop Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio, quit legitimizing this far right racist/sexist/looney tunes takeover!

[cab67]

18. I'm going to wear a black arm band.

It's a traditional sign of mourning.

[mainstreetonce]

21. We need celebrities and public figures

to join in the protest.