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DESCRIPTION:Public Community Tribunal: Stop the Political Witchhunt and Selective 
 Prosecution Against Felarca, Williams, and Paz -- Drop the Charges! \n\nEnd 
 the Police and Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert’s \nCover‐Up and 
 Collusion with Neo‐Nazis\n\nThurs. April 19, 6-8pm\nSouthside Park 
 CoHousing COMMON HOUSE\n(Common House located in the middle of the 
 facility)\n434 T-St., Sacramento, CA\n\n\nOn June 26, 2016 white 
 supremacist supporters of Donald Trump came to the state capital in 
 Sacramento armed with knives, homemade spears, and clubs. These fascists 
 were affiliated with the violent neo-Nazi organizations Traditionalist 
 Workers Party and Golden State Skinheads. They stabbed and attempted to 
 murder unarmed black, Latina/o, Asian, Arab, and white anti-racist and 
 anti-fascist counter-protesters. The 133 police (CHP, SPD, and sheriffs) 
 who were present on the ground stood by and did nothing protect the 
 counter-protesters or to stop the Nazi assault. At least 7 anti-racists 
 were hospitalized for stab wounds, head injuries, and fractured bones, with 
 some requiring invasive surgery as a result of the Nazi attack. Thanks to 
 the courage and determination of counter-protesters, violent white 
 supremacists were not able to roam the streets of Sacramento attacking 
 unsuspecting families or pedestrians, and their attack was shut down. But 
 instead of arresting the racists, the police and District Attorney Anne 
 Marie Schubert have scapegoated and 3 anti-racist and anti-fascists 
 fighters with fabricated felony and misdemeanor charges: Yvette Felarca, 
 Mike Williams, and Porfirio Paz. It is vital that the movement mobilize to 
 drop their charges now.\n\nRight after the fascist assault, the police 
 witchhunt against anti-fascists began immediately, with California Highway 
 Patrol (CHP) officers interrogating and harassing injured protesters in 
 their hospital beds without pursuing charges against the Nazi stabbers. The 
 police released unsubstantiated public statements blaming anti-fascist 
 protesters within 24 hours, actively covering for the Nazi’s. Months 
 later, after the election of Donald Trump, the police collusion with the 
 fascists went into high gear. Over a year after the protest, in the summer 
 of 2017 and only weeks before the murder of Heather Heyer in 
 Charlottesville, DA Schubert officially joined the police collusion with 
 the Nazi’s and charged Felarca, Williams, and Paz. Yvette Felarca is a 
 prominent civil rights and immigrant rights leader with BAMN. Mike Williams 
 and Porfirio Paz are active and recognized community organizers. To date, 
 only one white supremacist has been charged. \nThe police and DA’s policy 
 of allowing Nazi’s to get away with attempted murder in Sacramento and 
 pursuing charges against the anti-racists who stood up to them set the 
 stage for the lynch-mobs and murder in Charlottesville a year later. The 
 blood of Heather Heyer is on the hands of the California Highway Patrol, 
 the Sacramento Police, and DA Schubert.\n\nThe defendants have ample 
 evidence of the police collusion with the Nazi’s. Despite the fact that 
 the police have the names and pictures of every white nationalist with 
 their knife out on the capital grounds on the day of the protest, they’ve 
 arrested none of them. In the mountain of paperwork they submit as 
 “evidence” against the anti-racist defendants, there were no police 
 reports or police video footage written or filmed on the day. The police 
 dossiers written after-the-fact were authored by a single CHP officer who 
 wasn’t even on the ground at the protest. They reveal open political 
 targeting of the anti-fascist counter protesters who were present. Stab 
 victims were visited in their hospital beds by police who harassed them 
 about those who opposed the white supremacists. The police showed no 
 interest in pursuing an investigation of the fascists. Taped phone 
 interviews conducted by the police reveal their willingness to cover for 
 the Nazi’s and to pursue a witchhunt, especially targeting outspoken BAMN 
 leader Yvette Felarca. Hear the full presentation of defendants’ evidence 
 against the police, DA, and Nazi collusion, picket and pack the courtroom 
 to hear the oral arguments on the defense’s motion to dismiss the charges 
 Fri. April 20 at 8:30 am.\n\nIt is apparent to millions of people in the US 
 and across the globe that Donald Trump is capable of creating a tyrannical 
 authoritarian regime. Everyday brings a new example of Trump’s assault on 
 democracy: arresting and terrorizing immigrants and Muslims to enact a 
 racial purge, empowering police to target and brutalize black and Latina/o 
 communities, encouraging the rape and sexual assault of women and active 
 discrimination of LGBT people, and obstructing justice, to name a few. In 
 this situation, the groups that call themselves Nazi, KKK, neo-Confederates 
 are the equivalent to the fascists who followed Musollini in Italy and 
 Hitler in Germany. Their Alt-Right counterparts share their same politics 
 without the identifiable costumes. Thanks to Trump, white supremacists and 
 fascists have been on the rise, becoming bolder and more dangerous. They 
 back Trump because of, not in spite of, his racist and misogynistic 
 attacks.\n\nWe are living in a period of the biggest threat to democracy 
 that many people can remember. Stopping the growth of fascism is essential 
 to protect our communities and defeating Trump. In Sacramento and the Bay 
 Area, fascist and alt-right thugs have been shut down and defeated time and 
 again through mobilizing mass militant direct action. The resistance 
 movement to Trump is capable of forcing Trump to resign or be removed, as 
 long as we maintain political independence from both the Democrats and 
 Republicans and mobilizing in the streets. Defending our boldest fighters 
 and leaders is essential to our victory. \n\nDefend Immigrant, Latina/o, 
 Black, and Muslim Communities From Trump and His KKK/Nazi Supporters\nTrump 
 Must Resign or Be Removed\n\n\nSponsored by: \n\nCoalition to Defend 
 Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality 
 By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) \n\nBrown Berets de 
 SacrAztlan\n\nwww.bamn.com/defendyvettefelarca	\nContact: 510-817-2617 
 california@bamn.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/14/18808460.php
SUMMARY:Tribunal Exposing the Witchhunt Against Anti-Fascists in Sacramento
LOCATION:Southside Park CoHousing Common House\n434 T Street\nSacramento, CA 95811
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/14/18808460.php
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