Tough Messages Projected on Downtown Buildings Bash Trump, MAGA
Democratic guerrilla group projects images opposing Donald Trump, supporting Joe Biden.
Projection against building near intersection of N. Water St. and E. St. Paul Ave. Photo by Graham Kilmer.
A small group of activists staged a multi-media action Monday night, projecting videos and images on buildings in the area around downtown Milwaukee that they hope will stoke opposition to former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party on the first night of the Republican National Convention (RNC).
The action was led by Heather Perkins, executive director of Ignite Change, an advertising and communications firm with a focus on cause-driven campaigns. Perkins has been involved in a number of similar guerilla marketing campaigns, aimed at raising awareness for social issues.
“So we’re trying to really be educational, but really motivational to mobilize voters and mobilize the independents, people who don’t think that they’re going to vote at all, that they understand the stakes,” Liddle told Urban Milwaukee.
The organizers of these actions believe that democracy in the United States is one of the primary issues in the 2024 election, along with women’s rights, and abortion rights. The goal is to convince others that this is a high-stakes election revolving around these issues.
Perkins also said, on a personal level, that she didn’t want to wake up in November wondering if there was something she could have done.
“America needs a wake up call. I think everybody thinks ‘oh, fascism can’t happen here.’ It can happen,” Perkins said. “There’s a playbook, and Trump is going play-by-play through the playbook.” The DMP has created a video making that point.
They showed a video cutting together a series of statements from Trump, which they say illustrate his authoritarian bent and the danger he poses to Democracy. It includes infamous Trump quotes, like the time he said it was “common sense” for his supporters to chant “Hang Mike Pence” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building.
“I love that ad, because it’s all his words,” Perkins said.
They showed other images, like an illustration of Trump in an orange jump suit behind prison bars and stating “Lock Him Up”; another imposing Trump’s face over Adolf Hitler and calling him a “wannabe dictator”; another that said the RNC was “nominating two dictators” with images of Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The video included many of Trump’s comments disparaging women and the messaging and other pieces urged women to support the Democratic ticket to fight for abortion rights.
Just two days before the start of the convention, Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Since the attack, critics of Trump, especially those seeking to make comparisons between him and historical dictators like Adolf Hitler, have had to clarify that their opposition to Trump does not cross over into calls for violence.
“We recognize that that was a heinous act that happened, and there’s no room for any kind of political violence,” Liddle said. “But the fact that is, we believe it’s a symptom of politics that was created by Donald Trump himself. So it doesn’t make it right, but we’re still here. We decided not to sit this one out.”
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“America needs a wake-up call,” could not be more correct. Have we forgotten the thousands of lives lost because Trump denied Covid, tried to downplay its seriousness, then told us to inject bleach? He tried to get his Defense Secretary to shoot peaceful protestors in the legs, attempted to persuade Mike Pence and state leaders to cheat for him, instigated a deadly insurrection then sat and watched it unfold on TV. Trump is the most dangerous threat to American democracy. Besides his performance in office he’s a racist, misogynist, serial liar, convicted felon, sexual assaulter, proud p*ssy grabber, and an-around disgusting human being.
Sorry, I forgot a few. Trump pays off porn stars to block negative news to public, and cheats on his wives, repeatedly. Possibly most damming is Trump’s illegal transport of sensitive classified documents to his gawdy palace, and subsequent cover-up from FBI.
Probably not the best timing to making such hyperbolic claims that have already potentially lead to an attempted assasination. I mean can we at least turn the political rhetoric down for a few weeks and try to come together as a nation. Its this type of intentional talk of calling people “hitler” and a “dictator” that is contributing to this political violence.
Thank you to all of you who continue to put up these signs! We should not be distracted by the continued spin of Trump and his cult.
Great job! Please continue to throw Frump’s words back at him and his brain-addled minions.
It is time for America to wake up to what this election is about. Those that don’t like either candidate need to WAKE UP and educate themselves about more than their ages. It is also about much more that the price of eggs, gas, milk and interest rates. While those things are important, a broader view is required when making a decision on who to vote for in November.
Personally, I don’t love the choices we have. I believe this country can do much better than what we are forced to choose from in this race. But I have resigned myself to the reality that is facing all of us, and I know in my heart that another Frump term would create chaos in this country for well beyond a 4-year presidential term.
I have written here many times suggesting to people this piece of advice: When someone shows you who they are, believe them. This has never been more valid than when applying it to Frump & Co. Read up on Project 2025. Pay attention to all who are already claiming the November election is rigged if Frump loses. Pay attention to him saying that if he loses “there will be a bloodbath” in this country. Pay attention to what is happening in his trials.
There is far too much smoke surrounding this guy for there not to be a fire. And he and his GOP accomplices are ready and willing to spread that fire throughout this country. Wake up. Be informed. Vote accordingly.