On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended an escalator into the gilded lobby of Trump Tower
in downtown Manhattan, to officially announce
his candidacy for President of the United States.
That is some group of people. Thousands!
The idea that Trump could actually win the US Presidential election
didn’t occur to many people at the time.
Certainly not to American liberals, who viewed his campaign
as an irrelevant publicity stunt, and a way to score some easy laughs.
Donald Trump just last week, he confirmed to the National Review
that he is again considering a run in 2016
Do it!
(Laughter)
Do it! Look at me. Do it!
As the months dragged on, this laughter became tinged by a growing sense of unease,
as Trump steadily rose to the head of the Republican pack.
Donald Trump is America’s back mole. It may have seemed harmless a year ago.
But now that it’s gotten frighteningly bigger, it is no longer wise to ignore it.
Yet even as he ascended the stage of the Republican National Convention
to accept his party’s nomination in July of 2016,
many people still refused to believe
what was happening right before their eyes.
We’re back with David Hundo P Plouffe, the man who says Hillary Clinton
has a 100 percent chance of winning
I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president
So you think this presidential race is just about over?
Virtually over, the only thing that could save Donald Trump now is frankly,
some type of external intervention
This came to an abrupt end on election night, as stunned pundits soberly announced
that Donald J Trump would be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.
(sighs)
You’re awake by the way… You are not having a terrible, terrible dream,
also you’re not dead and you haven’t gone to hell…
This is your life now, this is our election now
this is us, this is our country, It's real
USA!! USA!!
Thank you!
The Democratic Party, and its various corporate media appendages,
had grossly underestimated the anti-establishment backlash,
that decades of neoliberal pcapitalist policies had fostered
among broad swathes of the American population.
Trump’s campaign had effectively tapped
this deep reservoir of seething anger,
and poured gasoline on the flames by appealing
to the patriarchal and nationalist impulses of white America.
Get the fuck out of here! Our country motherfucker! Our country! A proud fuckin American!
Made in USA bitch! Trump! Donald Trump! Fuck you!
On election night, as 4Chan trolls and alt-right figures celebrated,
and liberals sank into paralysis and fatalistic despair...
anarchists, anti-authoritarians and crowds of angry youth
took to the streets.
In cities across the country, large, spontaneous demonstrations broke out
before the votes were even finished being tallied.
Many of these protests were militant,
with participants burning effigies, clashing with police
and shutting down major highways.
In Oakland, two police cars were smashed up and burned,
and several cops were sent to the hospital with injuries.
Within this charged political atmosphere, a multi-city network
of anarchists stepped up to begin planning a massive demonstration
aimed to coincide with Trump’s inauguration on January 20th.
Within days, a website was calling on people to hashtag Disrupt J20.
Over the next thirty minutes, we will take a look at the historic protests
that rocked the streets of DC that day,
as well as the unprecedented wave of mass repression that followed.
Along the way, we will speak with a number of defendants and their supporters
as they share their experiences of running riot in Washington,
taking on the Department of Justice in court...
and ultimately... staying OUT of Trouble.
We need somebody, that literally will take this country and make it great again.
News: Donald Trump wins the presidency!
The next day, we’re just like, now what?
Days later, we had a website up, put together a video, a facebook event, and all this.
Folks got a spokescouncil together. It was probably one of the best mobilizations
of coalitions that I’ve ever been a part of.
The spokescouncils were according to the principles of consensus and according to also
the Saint-Paul Principles of organizing.
It’s a great way to organize a massive number of people according
to basic anarchist principles.
Our solidarity will be based on respect for a diversity of tactics and the plans of other groups.
The actions and tactics used will be organized to maintain a separation of time or space.
Any debates or criticisms will stay internal to the movement,
avoiding any public or media denunciations of fellow activists and events.
We oppose any state repression of dissent, including surveillance,infiltration, disruption and violence.
We agree not to assist law enforcement actions against activists and others.
Different assemblies organized different aspects and there was about nine different blockades
that were organized in those assemblies as well as, like, a permitted march,
J19 which was kind of like, a protest against Deploraball,
as well as the anti-capitalist and anti-fascist march
So we were able to convene broader mass meetings that drew four to six hundred people
in some cases. Break down into smaller working groups around the specific direct-action blockades,
the unpermitted march, the permitted festival of resistance, art, housing, medics, legal
like, we had a whole array of things.
No one wanted to just show up and just show out. Like there was a definite message about
disrupting the inauguration.
News 1: Burning cars and smashed windows!
The protesters dressed in black
their faces covered, armed with hammers and bricks.
News 2: Bricks and rocks being thrown right here at the police!
News 3: Six officers reportedly injured.
This thing’s crazy.
Black Lives! Matter!
Make nazis afraid again!
So that day our goal was to shut down a checkpoint.
We started with a rally in front of the MPD offices
Obviously one of the things we continue to fight is the police brutality and murder
here in DC.
The first thing we did was lock up in chains to what would have been the checkpoint
entrances to the actual parade route. We got there before it opened.
Nobody ever got through that checkpoint for the entire day.
We certainly attended with an obvious attempt
to disrupt the inauguration specifically because of the rising fascism of Trump.
There was a little speech, and then we just started marching.
In the beginning it was just like any normal march.
People chanting, y’know, down the street.
And then slowly I noticed people pulling trash cans and newspaper bins into the street.
And then there was fireworks.
And then finally like, i started seeing windows broken. I remember seeing the Bank of America.
All of their windows were completely gone.
So this is what happens in the rest of the world
when people fight against a fascist government.
Levels of seriousness that are not like our protests here
where we yell and scream and then go home.
That people start realizing like, this is a little more serious
than just “I’m mad today” or “our president is going to be terrible”
Yeah pand looking back as a participant that day cemented what solidarity looks like.
But then all of a sudden, everyone just started running.
The cops would come and corner us one way
making us go another way. And then they’d corner us this way.
So while we’re running away eventually we notice there’s a whole bunch of cops in front of us.
We were eventually kettled on a corner of 12th and L Street in downtown DC.
The bravery and the spirit that people maintained during a very long period of being held outside
on the corner and so we were held from about 10am until well after nightfall.
And people were very good about sharing food and sharing water and medical supplies and cigarettes
or whatever else people needed to kind of keep their state of normal.
And so the actual arrest was a very interesting time where people were sharing tactical advice and strategic advice.
And then eventually we were just arrested one by one
and spent the night in jail and were released the next evening.
For years now, cops in DC have had a reputation for being relatively restrained when it comes
to dealing with public protests. But while it’s therefore understandable that the indiscriminate
use of flash bangs, pepper spray and mass arrest that occurred at the J20 protests caught
many participants by surprise... these actions weren’t without historical precedent.
Hey hey! Ho ho! The IMF has got to go! Hey hey! Ho ho!
Back in the heyday of the anti-globalization movement, Washington was ground zero for two
major protests against the World Bank and IMF, where similarly heavy-handed crowd control
tactics were employed by DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, or MPD, as part an official
policy of preemptive mass arrest, dubbed ‘trap and detain’.
At the so-called A16 anti-capitalist demonstrations of April, 2000,
the MPD arrested over 1300 people
including a sweeping round-up of 648 protesters on the eve of the weekend’s
major demonstration.
Two years later, at a similar protest in September of 2002, the MPD and federal US Parks Police
encircled and mass-arrested around 400 people in Pershing Park,
one block away from the White House.
Detainees were hog tied and left in stress positions for more than 24 hours
before ultimately being released.
Civil rights lawyers, led by the Partnership for Civil Justice, responded to these two
mass arrests by suing the MPD and the federal government. The resulting lawsuits cost DC
taxpayers over $20 million dollars in damages, embarrassed city politicians and the police
top brass, and ultimately led to legislation that placed new controls on police activity,
including guidelines explicitly outlawing the use of arbitrary mass detention.
But it’s a well-known fact that police don’t exactly appreciate checks on their authority...
and the cops in DC are no exception.
On the day of the Disrupt J20 protests, Interim Police Chief, Peter Newsham,
who 16 years earlier had personally ordered the mass arrest of
protesters in Pershing Park, had been on the job for just over four months.
And no doubt emboldened by Trump’s campaign promises
to give cops free reign to brutalize people
however they saw fit, he decided that the era of playing nice was over.
On January 21st over 230 people had spent the night in lock-up,
but we didn't know what the charges were going to be.
When we were first arrested I assumed that it would just be a $50 fine.
The day of our court date I realized that we were all actually being charged with
a felony, and I was like 'woah, this is big.'
There was a solid amount of people that were just, frankly, scared.
And for, like, good reason.
Fuck your dreams.
Fuck your aspirations.
Y'know... you're gonna be in jail.
That's another world you have to process and readjust yourself to.
And we were not about to go there.
So we were initially each charged with one count of felony riot.
Three months later, while I was at an anarchist gathering in Mexico, I received an email from
a comrade, which informed me that the superceding indictment had been issued.
And in that superceding indictment we were given numerous additional charges.
This includes felony riot,
conspiracy to riot,
several counts of destruction of property,
inciting a riot,
several counts of assault and several counts of assault on an officer with a deadly weapon.
It was insane... y'know, facing 80 years in prison was very nerve-wracking.
The idea is to charge people with far more crimes than you could possibly convict on.
And though you realize that this is probably just a scare tactic to get people to accept
pleas... you're still facing 80 years in prison.
In Washington DC, prosecutors have filed a slew of additional felony and misdemeanor
charges against more than 200 people who were arrested at protests during President Trump's
inauguration January 20th.
The new charges mean protesters are now facing up to 75 years in prison.
After the mobilization, Washington DC was fairly spent.
So as we were kind of developing the legal collective and legal framework, particularly
MACC, the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council and Richmond folks kind of, like,
stepped up.
I became more involved in providing legal support on January 21st, sort of directly
in the aftermath.
There were multiple different sort of hubs of people providing different kinds of support,
and the place that I was most active was in the DC Legal Posse - the collective that sort
of sprung up specifically to provide support.
MACC helped bottom-line the initial assemblies of the defendants that allowed for folks to
draw together four different points of unity to sign onto.
People would break off, come up with ideas and then we would discuss them.
Like 'I don't like this point, but I do like this point... let's expand a bit on this point.'
Everything was hinging on having to make this shit work.
This was very much a multi-city, decentralized effort.
Multi-city for us meant Movement for Black Lives more locally,
but in contacting the Movement for Black Lives nationally
which is made up of about 75 different national organizations.
And really coordinating with them to talk about what this meant.
And to make sure that when we talked about it, that we always incorporated places like
Ferguson, where there are political prisoners from the Ferguson uprising.
So the coordination were essentially weekly meetings and different calls where people
did legal research and kind of, like, formed working groups.
And those working-groups did various tasks.
I was able to help with a lot of the media work.
Y'know, the defendants wanted to do their own media.
And, like... that's the best kind of media there is anyway.
I gave a bunch of interviews.
We did a lot of off-the-record background for reporters to explain how this case fits
into a larger context.
There was a very robust campaign.
We had yard signs, it was very grassroots.
It was very professional.
So I was really proud of the work that everyone did.
We used a lot of decentralized tactics to approach it.
One of the things which is really quite amazing, with the large and diverse group of people
who faced federal prosecution, was the ability of people to act collectively and to resist
this kind of knee-jerk reaction to take some sort of plea bargain.
Before J20, there had been folks charged with rioting at Standing Rock.
I think that there was a charge in Minneapolis.
There was a charge brought the same day in New Orleans.
I think that there were similar charges brought against activists in Sacramento.
And so people were worried that this was going to be part of a wave.
I would say that the charges are designed to criminalize certain forms of dissent.
They're designed certainly to criminalize tactics and strategies.
Specifically the use of public mass assemblies and specifically the use of black bloc tactics.
The US Justice Department actually tried to say that participating in a black bloc was
a conspiracy to riot.
Very early on it became clear that the state had taken the 230 people and broken them up
into categories.
And it seemed to be that the categories were meant to show a continuum of culpability.
There was 'movers', which were like... allowed for reabsorbtion.
There was alleged 'breakers', which were people who did an alleged act, such as break a window
or throw a newspaper box into the street.
The third category, which I was accused of, was an alleged 'organizer'.
People who allegedly made the black bloc on J20 happen.
The fact that there had been these changes to police procedure... these limitations to
police tactics that had been won after some pretty brutal clashes in the early 2000s,
had sort of established the tone in DC.
And I think that a lot of people in DC had gotten used to the police handling people
with kid gloves.
And I think the police had gotten used to a lot of permitted marches.
I've grown up here. I've lived here my whole life.
We thought that there wouldn't be mass arrests on J20 because there hadn't been mass arrests
in something like the decade prior.
One of the reasons that it caught everyone off guard in DC is that the law that was used
to prosecute people hadn't actually been used to prosecute anyone since the early 70s.
And it was passed by congress in the wake of the uprisings in Newark and Detroit, basically
because they were afraid about the prospect of Black people rising up in DC.
There was a definite need to say why we support J20.
Y'know, lotta times folks were like 'that's just them skinny white folks with masks on...
and we don't have anything to do with that.'
When the truth is... they are us, and we are them.
And so it could have been us on J20, but it's always us as Black liberation fighters.
The potential threat for becoming political prisoners or political casualties
is high in this game, and we know that.
Federal prosecutors in the United States have become quite fond
of grossly overcharging defendants in hopes of scaring them into taking plea deals.
It’s a big reason why more than 90% of criminal offences in the US never make it to trial.
This was the same tried and tested strategy, that US Assistant Prosecutor and Deputy Chief
of DC’s Felony Major Crimes Division, Jennifer Kerkhoff, tried to use on the J20 co-defendants,
by slapping a staggering list of felonies on nearly 200 individuals connected only by
the dubious assertion that everyone arrested on the streets of DC that day was part of
a conspiracy to riot.
Kerkhoff no doubt expected those on the receiving end of these charges to freak out and start
flipping on one another... thereby setting the stage for a series of easy convictions
for lesser charges.
Unfortunately for her, the J20 defendants refused to roll over.
Early on in their legal process, many of them signed onto a shared statement of principles,
in which they made it clear that they would refuse to cooperate with the state’s efforts
to prosecute them, and pledged to coordinate legal defence and support efforts.
Faced with this firm resolve and collective solidarity, the US Department of Justice had
no choice but to try and make their outlandish case stick.
In a desperate attempt to do just this, they subpoenaed California-based hosting provider,
Dreamhost, to try and force them to turn over the IP addresses
of everyone who visited the website DisruptJ20.org
They also sought access to suspected organizers’ personal facebook accounts, in an attempt
to dig up dirt that might help prove the existence of a conspiracy.
These efforts largely failed, and they were forced to rely heavily on evidence provided
by discredited far-right news outlets.
The ensuing trials were a massive humiliation for Kerkhoff
and the entire American justice system.
Conspiracies are essentially a thought crime, A conspiracy to riot is essentially
three people getting together and saying
"there should be a riot."
What conspiracy law basically says is, that anyone who's convicted of or can be
found liable for any particular crime, in this case the criminal conspiracy is
thus responsible for all the crimes that stem from that.
Essentially saying if you were out on the streets on, you know, inauguration day and
you were dressed a certain way
Chanting the same chants
AK47, put the cops in piggie heaven!
Espousing certain messages
Like bringing a medic
You are presumptively part of a plot hundreds of people deep to riot in the streets
The state asserted in a rather untraditional way that the conspiracy itself can be spontaneous.
In other words if two people are walking by a store and they say “hey that store looks
unlocked let's go rob it” that a conspiracy is actually derived in that moment.
So the state argued that during the the J20 actions that people conspired in the streets.
It means that they have a much lower bar to clear in terms of what they need to prove,
that gives prosecutors an incredible amount of leeway in terms of who they can charge.
The state would consistently assert that defendant “A” did not assault
anyone nor did they break any windows, but by being present at an assembly they
have thus conspired to facilitate others to break windows and to carry out assault.
Hey there everyone this is James O'Keefe with project Veritas after we released these
few videos exposing Disrupt J20 we have a couple updates for you.
Project Veritas is an organization that has made their mark sending these individuals
into organizations and planning meetings who are
pretending to just be another left-wing participant just another lefty but actually they're wired
up with secret cameras and try to find things that they think they can use as dirt against
the organization to try these organizations in the court of public opinion and either
bring down their funding or bring down their support and give them a bad name
our attorney met with the Terrorism Task Force detective this morning the representative
from the US Attorney's Office was also going to be attending and our attorney reports to
us that they are looking at the full footage they are investigating they're analyzing the
tapes and the batches of emails we sent them so they contacted us last night looks like
there's been some legal developments
the prosecution was convinced that this one video that they had of an open public meeting
where the the anti-capitalist anti-fascist march was discussed
was like a really important part of their case
I made an offhanded comment that became kind of like a center for why I got indicted
Just remember when we go to the festival of resistance, that’s like a space that’s
supposed to be family friendly, so, don’t break a window at, the festival of resistance
You know in hindsight I made a dumb comment.
Project Veritas was not actually the only sort of ultra right-wing organization, that
the US Attorney's Office and the Metropolitan Police Department collaborated with and used
footage from in this prosecution
I think Alex Jones and various other far right-wing outlets actually infiltrated the mass meetings
They also got independent footage and reports from the Oathkeepers which is a right-wing
militia from rebel media, and which is an alt right
white nationalist media outlet from Canada
Hammers holy crap!
This is not peaceful protest this is anarchy!
At the end of the last of those video files, the Project Veritas operative is chatting
with a few people and they you see at the end of the video, the initial one that we
got the operative and this guy he was talking to walk out of the doors
in the building they're in and the video just stops.
Go back out there…
A year plus later after some litigation about, you know very generally speaking, the completeness
of the Project Veritas cache that the defense had been given, the government made a second
disclosure of the four video files we got, plus some additional video files we had never
been given access to.
The fourth video file of that initial four
that was disclosed, when we get to the end scene
when the Veritas operative and the other
gentlemen are walking out it doesn't abruptly end.
The US Attorney's Office protested that the reason they cut that off is because there
was nothing on-screen, and so people think that maybe like the person who was wearing
the button cam put on a jacket, so they were still audio but there was no video.
And in that audio the person who was recording the video called Veritas and said:
Yeah I was talking with one of the organizers from the IWW, I don't think they know anything
about like the upper echelon stuff
That led obviously do a whole bunch of uproar and more litigation
They withheld like 69 videos, but they also withheld
the identity of the person who filmed the videos
a week before trial my lawyer was actually able to interview them
and all of a sudden they also became a star witness in my case.
They actually undermined the narrative that Kerkhoff was putting out there by saying like
I didn't believe anyone was planning violence that day
And that ultimately led to the chief judge finding a Brady violation
Brady V Maryland was a Supreme Court case from the 1960s that basically said that prosecutors
have the obligation and the duty to turn over any evidence that could that even has the
possibility of being exculpatory basically helping to demonstrate the innocence of the
defendant to the defense and as a part of discovery
And as a result of all of that he dismissed certain charges with prejudice against certain
defendants barred the introduction of any Project Veritas videos and any evidence of
a conspiracy effectively wiped out the government's conspiracy case
And from that moment forward the dominoes
just started falling and there were no more prosecutions after that
In a blow to the Trump administration's efforts to silence dissent the first trial
of people arrested at inauguration day Disrupt J20 protests ended Thursday
In December, six of those people were acquitted, and the government dropped charges against
149 others.
However fifty-nine protesters are still facing multiple felony charges
The government in a statement said that it would now focus its efforts on a smaller core
group that we believe is most responsible for the destucion
Prosecutors have dropped felony charges against several people, who faced possible decades
long prison terms,
Dozens of protesters arrested at president Trump's inauguration are now off the hook
and some of them could get paid.
What?
On July 6th, 2018, the state quietly dropped its charges against the final 39 J20 defendants,
bringing the drawn out legal saga to a stunning conclusion.
In the final tally, out of the 226 individuals eventually prosecuted for their participation
in J20 protests, 205 cases were dismissed, with 21 individuals taking plea deals – most
under youth statues that saw the bulk of their charges dropped.
The state wasn’t able to secure a single jury conviction.
Throughout the course of these proceedings, J20 defendants received an outpouring of solidarity,
with comrades around the world taking part in coordinated days of actions, dropping banners,
throwing up graffiti and dedicating militant direct actions to their cause.
These comrades knew that the stakes of this case were high... which only made the victory
so much sweeter.
And to top things off, class action lawsuits have been filed against the Metro PD, which
will almost certainly translate into a nice little payday for co-defendants, thanks to
the cops’ inability to follow their own rules.
Additional proceedings have also begun against Kerkhoff herself, stemming from her botched
attempts to secure decades-long prison sentences through a desperate campaign of lies and misinformation.
I think one of the most important things we can do is to create a culture, a normative
culture in which we do not cooperate with police, we do not answer questions, we do
not appear in federal grand juries, we do not accept to plea bargains that incriminate
others, we do not consent to searches.
And creating these as practices which are just the norm, allows us to act collectively
in a way that protects the most vulnerable.
It would have been good for the unpermitted march to have broadened the core of people
who were part of the organic planning of it.
So there could have been a more disciplined approach to how to respond as the police aggression
intensified.
There was a core of people who had been involved and tons more people who hadn't been involved
who just heard show up with a mask and there wasn't a process of like engaging folks around
like how to approach that all as strategically as possible.
we may have missed a little bit of an opportunity to understand the bigger context of like,
what we were going into and what these things look like.
Like when else in history did a dictator start doing certain things with the news media?
What other times in history and how did the criminalization of dissent look like?
Like what is it, first of all, do we all understand what repression is, what it's used for and
how it's used and who uses it and who benefits from it?
It's incredibly important for us to do political education, I think we've gotta understand
the things that we're saying and understand the things that we're seeing in a way that
we can talk about, we can talk about like in everyday language
I think that it's important for folks to understand more and for folks to read more about how
the state uses conspiracy laws.
And hopefully in the coming months people who are involved in this case and other conspiracy
cases over the past couple years will keep writing about this and will keep helping us
collectively to understand as a movement
against capitalism against white supremacy against nationalism
So a couple months after we were all arrested, I was at home
and I get a frantic call from my co-worker.
So I go on Facebook and I see that my personal facebook has been attacked,
my address has been given out, they obviously know where I work…
And it was clear that I was doxxed by the far right.
A list of everyone arrested during the J20 was released and I believe and what most people
believe is that the cops actually provided this list to the far right.
We fought the Feds subpoenaing our facebook, then they wound up actually getting access
to all of our data with names redacted except for our own names.
That, so far has not gone anywhere…
And that's why you practice good security culture!
During the J20 prosecution, there was a lot of discussion about you know points of unity
and people agreeing to certain points of unity and in a sense I'd like us as a movement to
move beyond that where when people are arrested, when people are in custody, they presume that
already there's going to be mass defense, there's going to be collective defense there's
going to be non cooperation with with plea agreements there's going to be non-cooperation
with federal grand juries
If you have deep rooted trust you can navigate political and tactical and strategic disagreements
without like never speaking to people again who you used to work with really closely.
The major victory apart from you know, two hundred plus people having their lives back,
is hopefully that there was a little bit of a road block put in place to what I saw as
a really massive erosion to the ability to go out and be an opposing voice
In terms of social precedent in terms of you know the ways that people treat this case
in and might react to similar things in the future, having this as one of the examples
to sort of draw on I think that was really important and a big win for the left and for
for the grassroots.
I think this is a true test case and I think it's it's very clear that we rose above that
and that people were able to act collectively in a time when the state was doing all it
could to split us apart and pit you know, so called "good protester" against "bad protester"
against those of us who are quote "just there" to those of us who are quote "breaking things".
And so I think that that really is an example of solidarity and action and a real true strength
of our collective abilities
J20 may have been the first mass prosecution of political dissidents in the Trump era,
but it hasn’t been the last... and you can bet that there’s more to come.
Since taking office, Trump has presided over a sharp escalation in state repression, a
trend that has coincided with a surge in paramilitary white nationalist and fascist violence.
So far, migrants, refugees and muslims have borne the worst of this reactionary wave..
but they are not the only groups in the crosshairs.
As women and trans folks brace themselves for expected roll-backs of gender identity
and reproductive rights emanating from the Supreme Court, new federal and state legislation
has already been introduced to criminalize numerous different forms of political protest,
with laws specifically targeting land defenders and anti-fascist protesters for enhanced sentencing.
Meanwhile, the FBI has adapted its COINTELPRO playbook for crushing Black Liberation struggles,
this time under the guise of fighting so-called “Black Identity Extremists.”
These continue to be dangerous times, and while we can and should celebrate the J20
victory, it’s also important to not allow it to lull us into a false sense of security.
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