Community Leaders: Sedition By A Sitting President. Treason By False Patriots.

Campbell CA

08 January, 2021

4:57 PM

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Special to San José Spotlight, San Jose Spotlight January 7, 2021 San José Spotlight is the city's first nonprofit news organization dedicated to independent political and business reporting. Please support our public service journalism by clicking here. Over the last four years, we have witnessed grotesque scenes of children torn from the arms of their mothers and fathers at the border or the last breaths of the children who died while in the custody of those who caged them. Over the last four years, we have witnessed the pleas and tears of our fellow humans begging for asylum because they or their loved ones are callously denied due process and sent back to their deaths. Over the last four years, we witnessed Latino, Black and Indigenous Americans mourning their children or a parent whose life was taken by brutality of the state or by the brutality of racism and hate. Over the last four years, we witnessed the discovery of bodies in streets, murdered because of gender or sexual identity. On January 6, 2021, we witnessed the same hand of cruelty behind all of that pain incite a treasonous assault upon the People's building in Washington D.C. History was forged by Donald Trump and his mob with an attempted coup. We heard this seditious president respond to violent, treasonous acts by calling the mobs "special people," affirming their anger and continuing his flaccid "stolen election" narrative. It was horrific to witness sedition, treason and domestic terrorism, broadcast live around the globe. For sedition and treason to occur with limited moderation by law enforcement and with sustained occupation of our nation's Capitol, places democracy in danger around the world. And we observe that had the bodies that sieged upon Congress been Black or Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), or carrying flags with all the colors of life, they would never have been afforded the capacity to commit treason without threat or broad use of lethal force. We, the undersigned, join as duly elected officials, community leaders and Americans in repudiating the criminal act of sedition by President Trump and the violent, treasonous acts of Trump loyalists against the United States of America, the United States Congress, the Constitution of the United States. We demand that the treasonous assaults on liberty be met with swift justice and vigorous prosecution in defense of our democracy. In Unity, Claudia Rossi, Board President, Santa Clara County Board of Education Serena Alvarez, Esq., Executive Director, The Salvadore E. Alvarez Institute for Non-Violence Rebeca Armendariz, Councilmember, City of Gilroy Teresa Castellanos, Immediate Past Board President, San Jose Unified School District Brian Wheatley, Board President, San Jose Unified School District Karina Dominguez, Councilmember, City of Milpitas Peter Ortiz, Trustee, Santa Clara County Board of Education The Si Se Puede Collective, including: Maritza Maldonado, Executive Director of Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment Veronica Goei, Executive Director of Grail Family Services Camille Fontanilla, Executive Director of Somos Mayfair Jessica Paz-Cedillos, Executive Director of The School of Arts and Culture Cayce Hill, Executive Director of Veggielution Alex Caraballo, Labor Activist Carla Torres De Luna, Trustee, Hollister School District Jeffrey I. Levin, The South Bay Progressive Alliance Corina Herrera-Loera, Board President, Alum Rock Union School District Carlos Flores, President, CARAS South County Jan Grist, Board President, Hollister School District Patrick Ahrens, Trustee, Foothill-De Anza Community College District Ketzal Gomez, Red Earth Women's Society Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, President of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley Tamara Alvarado, Community Advocate Gina Gates, Community Advocate Omar Torres, Regional Director, California Democratic Party Ruth Silver Taube, Coordinator, Santa Clara County Wage Theft Coalition Gerardo Loera, Community Activist Derecka Mehrens, Executive Director, Working Partnerships U.S.A. South Bay Labor Council Pastor Jethroe Moore II, President, San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP Otto Lee, District 3 Supervisor, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Maria Noel Fernandez, Silicon Valley Rising Patricia Mondragon, Trustee, Gavilan Community College Board Red Earth Women's Society Women's March San Jose Sergio Jimenez, Councilmember, City of San Jose Alysa Cisneros, Councilmember, City of Sunnyvale Patti Andrade, Trustee, Evergreen Elementary School District Marisa Hanson, Trustee, Evergreen Elementary School District Lam Nguyen, Orchard City Indivisible Co-Chair Huy Tran, Community Activist Ray Mueller, Co-Chair, Stonewall Democratic Club of Silicon Valley Diego Martinez, Santa Clara County Democratic Party Central Committee Scott and Diane Myers-Lipton, Community Activists Marisa Hanson, Evergreen Elem. School District Trustee Allie Hughes, Santa Clara County Democratic Party Central Committee Member Justin Lardinois, San José Community Advocate Maricela Lechuga, East San José Community Activist DAWN, Democratic Activists for Women Now Michelle Osorio, M.P.A., Community Advocate Sylvia Alvarez, J.D., Former Trustee, Evergreen Elementary School District Danny Garza, Mexican American Political Association Micael "Mica" Estremera, President, California La Raza Lawyers Association Jake Tonkel, Co-Chair, SBPA Public Banking Beija Gonzalez, Trustee, Oak Grove School District Carla Hernandez, Trustee, Oak Grove School District Angel Kelly, Community Advocate & Former Chair, El Comite PDLF (Latino Social Workers) Nassim Nouri, Green Party Santa Clara County & Unhoused Response Group Michele Mashburn, Director, San Jose Peace and Justice Center & Green Party SCC