A Who's Who of liberal Hollywood entertainers including Jane Fonda, Rosie O'Donnell, Lily Tomlin, Cynthia Nixon and Danny Glover are supporting an online petition demanding Donald Trump's ouster from the 2016 presidential race.
Nearly 24,900 petitioners have signed the online petition at
StopHateDumpTrump.com, which reads: "We believe Trump is a grave threat to democracy, freedom, human rights, equality, and the welfare of our country and all our people."
The petition was started by a self-proclaimed, "diverse coalition cutting across race, gender, religion, sexual orientation and party affiliation has organized to give voice to Americans calling out Donald Trump for his hate speech, misogyny, Islamaphobia, and racism."
"We have witnessed Trump inciting hatred against Muslims, immigrants, women, the disabled. We have seen him evidencing dangerous tendencies that threaten the bedrock of democracy: unleashing a lynch mob mentality against protestors, calling for the expulsion of Muslims from the country, bullying, and fear-mongering," the petition reads.
"History has shown us what happens when people refuse to stand against hate-filled leaders. We pledge ourselves to speak out in every way possible against the politics of hate and exclusion he represents … Join the movement to end hatred, fear mongering, bullying and racism in America."
Other celebrity movers and shakers who've signed the petition include:
Roseanne Barr, Dylan McDermott, Rosanna Arquette, Harry Belafonte, Jonathan Demme, Ani Difranco, Macy Gray, Kathy Najimy, Lili Taylor and Kerry Washington.
One organizer, award-winning playwright Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues," said:
"Trump is a front-runner candidate who promises to 'build a wall' on our borders, humiliates and denigrates Muslims, women, immigrants, racial minorities as part of his 'stump speech,' allows protesters to be beaten at his rallies and in fact encourages hostility toward anyone who disagrees with him.
"We are offering Americans a chance to be heard and engage in action, as Trump's campaign gain momentum even as he increases his hateful and divisive rhetoric.
"We also intend to put the media and political institutions on notice that they are accountable for normalizing Trump's extremism by treating it as entertainment, by giving it inordinate and unequal air time and by refusing to investigate, interrogate or condemn it appropriately."
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