Tonight's Ready to Resist call: Confronting white supremacy

Tonight's hour-long call on white supremacy and how to confront it will begin at 8 p.m. ET. You will receive a call a few minutes before, or you can tune it to listen via your computer

Dear MoveOn member,

Tonight's Ready to Resist call on confronting white supremacy comes at a critical moment. On Friday, white supremacist Steve Bannon was fired from his position in the White House, the latest victory for the grassroots resistance, but we all know it isn't nearly enough. We all must keep working to confront Trump's embrace of this toxic anti-Black, anti-immigrant, anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, anti-woman, homophobic bigotry—and all its symbols, advocates, and enablers in the Trump administration, as well as in all our communities.

That will be the focus of the call tonight, Sunday, August 20 at 8 p.m. ET (7 CT/6 MT/5 PT). Because you have registered for this call or subscribed to this call series, a few minutes before the training begins, you'll receive a call at the phone number you listed. No further actions is required, though you can click here to register a different phone number or come back to this link at the time of the call to listen via computer at the link.

Invite friends to join as well. Click here to share info about the call on Facebook. And click here to share info about the call on Twitter. 

You can even consider gathering friends together to listen to the call. You can find a discussion guide with a few suggested questions by clicking here.

Here are tonight's night's speakers and program:

• Wes Bellamy, Vice Mayor of Charlottesville, will describe how the city acted to remove the Confederate statue and to create an "equity fund," and how the people of Charlottesville are responding to the white supremacist violence.
• Eric Ward, Senior Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center and an expert in white nationalism, will join Greeley O'Connor of Political Research Associates to lead a training on white supremacy, its history in the United States, and what it looks like today.
• Rep. Bonnie Watson-Coleman, Arisha Hatch of Color of Change, Keron Blair of the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, and Greisa Martinez of United We Dream will share ways to take action this week to resist white supremacy and racism in policy-making, to remove its public symbols, and to demand action, not words, from elected officials, including censuring Donald Trump.
• We'll offer guidance and resources for how to talk to your friends, neighbors, and family about this hateful right-wing movement, and how to challenge it in your own communities.
• Mehrdad Azemun of People's Action will moderate the conversation.

You'll be joining more than 15,000 participants from MoveOn, Color of Change, Indivisible, the Center for Popular Democracy, the Working Families Party, People's Action, #Resist, and other movement allies. And you can still invite more friends and family to join with you in person or to listen in on their own.

Click here to share info about the call on Facebook. And click here to share info about the call on Twitter.

Thanks for all you do.

—Victoria, David, Karine, Chris, and the rest of the team

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