PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Kevin Lee, Member of Rev Com Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity and Revolution Books, on Immigrant Rights and Anti-Fascism
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Kevin Lee from Rev Com Corps and Revolution Books delivers an impassioned speech about the plight of immigrants in New York City and across the country. He condemns the actions of city officials and fascist leaders, calling for a revolution against the current system and urging people to take action against Trump-MAGA fascism.
- Criticizes Eric Adams for working with border officials and Trump, accusing them of dehumanizing immigrants
- Argues that the current treatment of immigrants is unnecessary and unjust, given the city's resources and history
- Calls for collective action to defeat fascism and create a new society with a different economic and political system
- Urges people to engage with Bob Avakian's guidance for revolution and join protests on January 20th in Washington D.C.
Kevin Lee
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Lee.
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Okay.
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I'm Kevin Lee with the Rev Com Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity and, from Revolution Books in Harlem.
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And I'm here to speak to you today from the heart about this condition and problems of 1,000 of our immigrant sisters and brothers here in New York, and literally millions more who are across the country.
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These are people who are forced to flee their countries because of wars, economic devastation, climate disaster caused by the very system of capitalism, imperialism of which the United States is the marine purveyor in the world.
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When the Eric when Eric Pig Adams says he is excited to work with border Nazi Thomas Homan and the fascist Donald Trump, he is joining up with these deranged fascist lunatics that are dehumanizing and demonizing the human beings as rapists and criminals and what he calls from shithole countries.
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I'm just being blunt here and frank.
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Telling they're telling bold faced lies, accusing people of stealing and eating American pets.
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They blame immigrants for every problem the system creates here in the United States from, you heard some of it here today, from inflation to the rotten schools and hospitals.
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And straight out of Hitler's playbook, he spits out the racist lie that immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country.
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People are being rounded up now.
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They're being rounded up, down, shipped out, over and around, demonized, terrorized.
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None of this is necessary.
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In a city that was literally built on the graves of enslaved people, this is a disgrace.
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In a city with more empty offices, apartments, and buildings than our homeless people and immigrants combined, this is a shame.
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In a country that was built on the enslavement of captured African people, the genocide of the native people, and the theft of Mexico through war, this is an insult to oppressed people and decent people here and everywhere in the world.
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And I'm here to tell you that it is your right, your responsibility, and your duty to defend the rights and the very lives of the immigrants that the Trump MAGA fascists are targeting right now.
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And we in the Rev Com Corps will do this ourselves.
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We plan to do that.
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We're calling on all the decent human beings to join us in doing this.
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And to anyone telling us to go along with this cruel, unacceptable madness like Eric Adams, I will quote revolutionary leader Bob Avakian who says, this is not a time for accepting this Trump MAGA fascism as legitimate.
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This is a time for collective action and self sacrificing struggle for the greater good the greater good of defeating this fascism.
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There is no good reason why the world has to be the way it is.
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A whole different way of living is possible.
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A whole different way to organize society with a radically different economic foundation and political system, emancipating relations among the people, and an uplifting culture.
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All of this is oriented to meeting the basic needs and fulfilling the highest interest of the masses of people.
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In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America.
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The whole system is rotten and illegitimate.
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We need and we demand a whole new way to live in a fundamentally different system.
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And there are 2 things I'll leave you with.
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Everyone who hates everything the Trump MAGA fascism stands for must do.
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1 is to dig into the real time guidance for revolution by Bob Avakian.
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He's giving in his social media, messages at Bob Avakian official.
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And 2, join us in taking to the streets on January 20th in DC and beyond in defiant protests with the aim of stopping this fascism now.
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Thank you.