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DESCRIPTION: DROP THE CHARGES\nAgainst Anti-Racist and Anti-Fascist Protesters: 
 Felarca, Williams, and Paz\n \n\nLatest Developments: All progressive civil 
 rights and immigrant rights activists and supporters are needed to mobilize 
 to the Sacramento Superior Court on January 22nd and demand that Judge 
 Boulware Eurie and the Sacramento County District Attorney drop the charges 
 against the three anti-racist protesters, Felarca, Willams, and Paz. The 
 Jan 22nd court date for the Sacramento 3 is a continuation of the Dec 6th 
 pre-trial evidentiary hearing where the District Attorney’s office is 
 attempting to present anonymous Youtube video clips featured prominently in 
 white supremacist online propaganda as “factual” video evidence. The DA 
 is relying on a single police officer witness—who testified that he did 
 not see any confrontation the defendants were allegedly involved in because 
 he was on the roof of the Capitol building—in order to pursue these 
 trumped-up, bogus charges. The judge will make a determination after this 
 hearing whether or not the case proceeds to trial. The truth is on our side 
 but that is not enough. To win, we have to assert our power through 
 building a community-wide defense campaign for our civil rights activist 
 leaders.\n\nBackground: On June 26, 2016 white supremacist supporters of 
 Donald Trump came to the state capital in Sacramento armed with knives, 
 homemade spears, and clubs. These fascist scum were affiliated with the 
 violent 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 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 three anti-racist and anti-fascists 
 fighters with fabricated felony and misdemeanor charges: Yvette Felarca, 
 Mike Williams, and Porfirio Paz. We must mobilize to get their charges 
 dropped now!\n\nRight after the fascist assault, the police witchhunt 
 against anti-fascists began immediately, with California Highway Patrol 
 officers interrogating and harassing injured protesters in their hospital 
 beds without pursuing charges against the Nazi’s who stabbed people. 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. One 
 fascist has been charged. \n\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.\nThe defendants have ample evidence of the police 
 collusion with the Nazi’s. 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, yet arrested none of them. Despite a mountain of 
 paperwork they submit as evidence against the anti-racist defendants, they 
 included not a single police report or any police video footage written or 
 filmed on the day. The police dossiers written after the fact were authored 
 by a single police officer who wasn’t even present 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 little 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 Tuesday, January 22nd at 
 8:30AM.\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: 
 kidnapping and ripping immigrant children from the arms of their parents, 
 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 keep 
 mobilizing in the streets. Defending our boldest fighters and leaders is 
 essential to our victory. \n\nDefend Immigrant, Latina/o, Black, and Muslim 
 Communities\nfrom Trump and His KKK/Nazi Supporters\nTrump Must Resign or 
 Be Removed\n\nCoalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & 
 Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) 
 \nwww.bamn.com/DefendYvetteFelarca             \nContact:  510-817-2617     
      \ncalifornia@bamn.com\n\nBrown Berets de SacreAztlan  
 \nSacBrownBerets@gmail.com\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/16/18820407.php
SUMMARY:Pack to Court to Support Anti-Racist and Anti-Fascist Protesters in Sacramento
LOCATION:Sacramento Superior Court\nDept. 18\n720-9th St. \nSacramento, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/16/18820407.php
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