Sign the petition re: Trump's visit to Kenosha, WI

Sign the petition to tell Donald Trump: You are not welcome in Kenosha, WI.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

Donald Trump is planning to visit Kenosha, WI, on September 1 "to meet with law enforcement and to survey some of the damage from the recent protests."¹ 

Trump is not concerned about Kenosha or Wisconsin, which are reeling from the recent tragedy of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a young Black man. Trump hasn't even reached out to Blake's family!²

Trump's visit to Kenosha is merely a political ploy and a photo opportunity that will only further jeopardize the healing of Kenosha and of Wisconsin. Kenosha residents don't want Trump to visit, worried that it will cause violence and destruction.³ Kenosha's mayor and the governor of Wisconsin have asked Trump not to come.^4,5

Sign the petition to make it clear to Trump: You are not welcome in Kenosha, WI.

Donald Trump's upcoming visit to Kenosha, WI, will not help the city and the state heal.

His hateful rhetoric will only sow division.

He must listen to the people of Kenosha and Wisconsin who are telling him they don't want him to visit.

Trump has shown no regard for the Black lives of Kenosha or Wisconsin, nor for Jacob Blake and the Blake family, who are in immense pain yet are calling for healing and peace.⁶

Trump is using the open wound of Kenosha to benefit his political campaign. This is abhorrent, unethical, and divisive.

We, residents of Wisconsin and supporters of peaceful advocacy for racial justice, do not wish to give Trump consent to use us this way. Will you sign the petition to stand with Kenosha and Wisconsin?

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Esther Roberts

Sources:

1. "Trump Plans Visit To Kenosha To Meet Police And 'Survey Damage From Riots,'" BET, August 30, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143441?t=17&akid=272698%2E10220574%2E9zOXyC

2. Ibid.

3. "Ailing Kenosha on edge as Trump visit looms amid tensions," The Washington Post, August 31, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143442?t=19&akid=272698%2E10220574%2E9zOXyC

4. "Kenosha Mayor Does Not Want President Trump To Visit 'At This Point In Time,'" NPR, August 30, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143443?t=21&akid=272698%2E10220574%2E9zOXyC

5. "Evers to Trump: 'I write today to respectfully ask you to reconsider,'" Kenosha News, August 30, 200
https://act.moveon.org/go/143444?t=23&akid=272698%2E10220574%2E9zOXyC

6. "Jacob Blake's Mom Begs for 'Healing' as He Fights for His Life," MSN, August 26, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143445?t=25&akid=272698%2E10220574%2E9zOXyC

You're receiving this petition because we thought it might interest you. It was created on MoveOn.org, where anyone can start their own online petitions. You can start your own petition here.

Want to support MoveOn's work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

---

PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

This email was sent to Mar Alfaro on August 31, 2020. To change your email address or update your contact info, click here. MoveOn's privacy policy was recently updated. To read our new privacy policy, click here. To remove yourself from this list, click here.