The groups are organized to assemble together if the target by Trump
WASHINGTON – Persons involved in the initiative said that non -profit groups linking different missions combine together in an alliance aimed at protecting each other if they become targets to tempt President Donald Trump, the initiative said that non -profit groups linking different missions together in an alliance aimed at protecting each other if they become targets to tempt President Donald Trump.
Referring to the general effort of the colloquial as a kind of “NATO for non -profit organizations”, the groups plan to gather behind a non -profit institution besieged by providing strategic and legal support, and issuing supportive data and employees to lend them who will help keep them standing on his feet until the crisis passes.
Just as the NATO Military Alliance views an attack on one member state as an attack on everyone, the network of non -profit organizations will act as sadness against the Trump administration measures that disrupt the work of groups that provide legal services and practice freedom of expression.
Initiative Vanita Gupta, He held the position of senior official in the Ministry of Justice in Obama and Biden departments. She has also worked in a number of civil rights organizations, including the president and CEO of the Command Conference on Civil Rights and Human Rights.
“The only way during this moment is teamwork,” Gupta told NBC News in an interview. “When you have a management trying to silence people through Cudgel for the federal government, the only way to work together.”
She added that the government’s practice in some countries is to create “a lot of fear and the effect of chilling for it on organizations that do critical work, to the extent that they are forced to spend 100 % of their time in self -protection. Organizations know that their work to support the rule of law and protect weak societies cannot stop.”
GUPTA and others provided some details about how voltage works or the number of non -profit organizations. But non -profit organizations are already showing solidarity in the face of potential threats from the Trump administration.
One index came this week. More than 3700 signed sets on message Administration condemning what they described as a campaign “to intimidate and silence charitable groups through executive work.”
“You did not have an unprecedented group of large and small groups, of every different type, which gathered with courage and strength to say this is what we offer,” said Nurim Eisen, the co -founder of the Democratic Defenders Fund, an unprecedented organization of democracy.
One of Trump’s repeated messages is that the United States is under the siege of the “inside”. He photographed “”Radical left “ Like the perpetrators of political violence, though a Ticket Last year, which was previously on the Ministry of Justice website, it was found that “the number of extremist right -wing attacks still exceeds all other types of terrorism and extremism of domestic violence.”
Trump was assassinated after the assassination of his friend and political ally, Charlie Kirk, during an event speaking at the University of Utah on September 10. He soon blamed the “radical left”, although officials told NBC news that they are “no evidence” of any links between the left and alleged absolute groups.
Two weeks after the shooting, Trump Fell Executive Memorandum Entitled “Confronting local terrorism and organized political violence.”
The memo acquired the murder of Kirk in calling for a “national strategy for investigation, trial and disrupting entities and individuals involved in political violence and intimidation designed to suppress legal political activity or obstruct the rule of law.” The Public Prosecutor, Commissioner of the Tax Authority, Minister of Treasury and all others were informed of help.
The guidance was open enough so that some non -profit officials feared that the Trump administration might close their work by misuse it as a crime by nature.
“There is a tremendous fear between non -profit organizations.”
She added: “The administration is trying to use this to silence non -profit organizations, and relax its freedom to express and intimidate them.” “This places a truly dangerous precedent for this future departments and departments to target non -profit organizations because they do not agree with their mission and those who serve.”
In response, it produced the non -profit world Open message, It precedes the type of collective action that the “NATO non -profit organizations” may take.
The two sites vary widely, confirming the depth of support. Some groups focus on environmental causes; Others defend the rights of consumers and women, educational improvements or arts.
“We of course reject political violence unambiguously. But we will not give words,” The message reads. “No president – democratic or Republican – should enjoy the authority to punish non -profit organizations just because he does not agree with them.”
Joint action is a unique thing in the Trump era. Others faced him in Trump on his own, either by choice or necessity.
Gobta said that the strategy that reaches one in terms of confession that disposing of isolation is useless. One only needs to consider the fate of the law firms that have been subjected to Trump.
Some companies deal with the White House, which obliges them to perform millions of dollars in free legal work for reasons that support Trump. Others killed him in court and prevailed.
When watching the episode reveals, non -profit groups realized that there is no side to stay separate and allow the Trump administration to target them one by one.
“One of the most important things we can do at this moment is to clarify that our sector stands together unlike the law firms, as some of them were surrendered and chosen,” said Lisa Gilbert, head of the public citizen, a progressive consumer group.
If work in cooperative work, defenders say it may become a model for other parts of society.
“We hope that the other sectors will be, if it becomes a target for an unfair bullying, it will also be strong. They can learn from this example,” Eisen said.