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"We Must Defeat Fascism": Chicago Alderman on Trump's Threat to Deploy Troops to City

   August 26  Leave a Comment on "We Must Defeat Fascism": Chicago Alderman on Trump's Threat to Deploy Troops to City

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that would establish “specialized” National Guard units to be quickly deployed in Washington, D.C., and all 50 states, and again threatened to send troops to Democrat-run cities like Chicago. Officials and grassroots organizers have vowed to fight back. “We are a strong labor city,” says Byron Sigcho-Lopez, a Democratic Socialist alderperson of the 25th Ward in Chicago. “We’re not going to normalize fascism, and we’re prepared to face the dictator head-on.” Sigcho-Lopez says the city is planning a mass mobilization effort to take place on Labor Day.

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