Tallahassee, FL – On January 4, over 100 community members gathered at the Florida Capitol Building for a protest organized by the Tallahassee Coalition Against Trump (TCAT). They rallied to denounce the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and demand the release of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

“We all need to do what we can to stop the Trump administration from committing more crimes against Venezuela or any other countries. All U.S. invasions and interventions have led to destabilization of the other country, endless wars, internal conflicts and such. The U.S. has never liberated other countries. These invasions have only served American private business and that seems to always be the main goal,” said Tallahassee Community Area Response Equipo (TCARE) founder Isabel Ruano.

With more than a dozen organizations, TCAT includes a wide range of views, but all worked to condemn Trump’s racist and reactionary agenda.

“Tallahassee showed up with one united message today: to stand against the illegal arrest of Nicolas Maduro and to say no to U.S. intervention in Venezuela,” said Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) President Delilah Pierre. “The people here don’t all feel and think the same, but our coalition against Trump needs to unite on one thing: the Trump administration needs to go!”

In continuing the fight, TCAT is planning a No Kings march and rally for January 24 at 11 a.m. at the Florida Capitol. Coalition members will join with the community to mark a year of resistance against the Trump agenda.

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Tallahassee, FL – On December 13, members of the Tallahassee Coalition Against Trump rallied at the Florida Capitol to condemn the attacks on Palestine and Venezuela by the Trump administration.

The inaugural rally of this new coalition happened on International Human Rights Day in response to the United States and Israel’s repeated attempts to undermine sovereignty and peace in Venezuela and Palestine. The Israeli occupation of Palestine continues in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel violates a ceasefire they never planned to uphold.

Off the coast of Venezuela, the Trump administration has illegally killed over 80 people and recently seized an oil tanker headed to Cuba, more proof of the economic terror that goes hand in hand with the U.S.’s military operations in Latin America.

Students, community organizers, and even some groups more closely aligned with the Democratic Party have joined the Tallahassee Coalition Against Trump. A member of FRSO stated that “coalition building is about finding a common enemy and using collective action to defeat that enemy, and that enemy is the capitalist system.”

A student organizer with the Students for a Democratic Society said that SDS’s fight against the genocide in Palestine is not over, saying that the link between institutions like Florida State University and Israel grow larger every day and “lobby groups, IDF training with local police, and surveillance technology with AI detection” must be stopped.

Activists around the country continue to speak out against the Trump administration's illegal attacks and violent repression of oppressed peoples inside and outside of the U.S.

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