FOR IMMEDIATE RLEASE
April 16, 2025
CONTACT |
George Albro, Co-Chair |
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Maria Ordonez, Political Director |
NYPAN's Statement on the Escalating Authoritarian Threat and the Crisis of Democracy
This a moment of unprecedented crisis. The emergency we all have feared is now upon us.
We all know that Trump has been committing atrocities 24/7 since he was elected, but his latest threat impacts EACH person receiving this email. Trump is ignoring due process, court rulings, and now the Supreme Court. He is disappearing people he personally does not like and sending them to prisons in other countries.
Trump doesn’t care if these people are undocumented residents, green card holders or citizens – there is nothing stopping him from disappearing any of us.
The GOP is now a party of loyalists who live in fear of Trump’s wrath. They have allowed him to rule by decree, effectively abandoning their constitutional role and leaving Trump in total control of the government.
With the brutal dictator of El Salvador laughing at his side, Trump said outright he was going to ignore the 9-0 Supreme Court decision that ordered his administration to return to the US Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the innocent man who was sent to a notorious El Salvadoran concentration camp.
As if all of this isn’t bad enough, in his meeting with the president of El Salvador, Trump made it clear that he wants to send citizens to the concentration camp in El Salvador. In other words, our entire democracy and every one of us is in danger.
We must now rely on ourselves, and ourselves alone, to save our democracy!
We ALL – every last one of us who shares a love of democracy – must organize, take to the streets, and show them what democracy really looks like.
LET’S START WITH THESE EMERGENCY ACTIONS
- March this Saturday, April 19, in one of the following mass gatherings:
- Bryant Park, NYC @ noon
- Long Island @ 1:00pm
- Ithaca @ 11:00am
- West Capital Park, Albany @ noon
- Take a few minutes to send letters to your Senators and your Congressional Representative. Follow the letters with calls using 5 Calls!
- Join NYPAN’S Rapid Response Team to confront Trump illegal actions.
- Become a NYPAN member and sustainer, and help us with the resistance!
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