Trump’s reaction to the recent London terrorist attack was not only arrogant and tasteless. It was frightening.

Before issuing any message of condolence to or solidarity with the British people, he exploited the London attack to defend his Muslim ban and bully the U.S. courts. He accused the courts of taking away “our rights.” Think about that.

The Constitution protects the basic rights of all Americans. The courts, in citing the establishment of religion clause as a reason to strike down a religious test for entry to our country, are protecting our right to live in a country that does not “favor or disfavor one religion over another.”

Yet Trump seeks to use the fear of terrorism to divide Americans into “us” and “them,” suggesting that the courts, in striking down the ban as unconstitutional, have been defending their rights at the expense of our rights.  

Trump has to know – or at least his attorneys must have told him – that his repeated tweets about Muslims undermine his beloved travel bans. And yet he persists to the point that it becomes apparent his real goal is to stoke fear and division. Just last weekend he tweeted, “we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S.” So, then, why do we need the travel ban? What other purpose does this posturing serve but stoking anti-Muslim sentiment?

What is the endgame to all this?

A chilling possibility came from Trump’s favorite “news” source. On Fox News, British politician and commentator Neil Farage called for internment camps for terrorist suspects. Sounding a lot like Trump, he blamed “political correctness” for preventing “genuine action.”

You might think it is farfetched that an American politician would even mention internment camps as a solution. But, remember, during the presidential election campaign, then-candidate Trump refused to say whether he would have supported or opposed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

“I certainly hate the concept of it,” he said. “But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer.”

Incredibly, Kris Kobach, a Trump transition team member, later cited the internment of Japanese Americans as “precedent” supporting a Muslim registry. Then-Fox host Megyn Kelly struck back, “You can’t be citing Japanese internment camps as precedent for anything.”

Sadly, the legal basis for sending Japanese Americans to camps has never been completely erased. The ACLU lost its constitutional challenge to the wartime orders that authorized the internment – Korematsu v. United States. The disgraceful 1944 Supreme Court decision has never been overturned. At the time, Justice Robert Jackson wrote in dissent that the decision “lies about like a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.”

What would happen if this country suffered an attack like those that have recently hit Europe? Would Trump reach for the “loaded weapon?”

In 1988, Congress passed and President Reagan signed legislation apologizing to the approximately 120,000 placed in U.S. detention camps during World War II and authorizing reparations. The legislation declared of this shameful chapter in our nation’s history: “The internment of the individuals of Japanese ancestry was caused by racial prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership.”

That last sentence, in quotes, is exactly 140-characters – the maximum length of a tweet. If only our current president could tweet anything that true, vital and just.

Imagine you just moved to Los Angeles. You can’t find a job and are temporarily homeless. And just when you think things can’t get worse, you’re arrested for blocking a sidewalk when you set up a tent to sleep. You appear at your court date and because you can’t afford a lawyer, the judge tells you to speak with a public defender.

But that’s not free. The public defender immediately hands you a form that says that you must send a check for $50 to a private collections agency to “register” for an attorney. The fee is due in five days, and the form doesn’t say anything about what to do if you can’t pay it.

For many years, low-income defendants in Los Angeles who needed a public defender have faced this dilemma. But today, all of that changed when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to end the collection of upfront “registration fees.”

The ACLU of Southern California, which recommended the elimination of the fee in Los Angeles County, has released a report on the little known fee requirement that exists in many courts. The report calls for the elimination of registration fees statewide.

Forty-three states charge fees for using a public defender, and 27 of these charge upfront “registration fees” like the one that was just repealed in Los Angeles. These upfront fees can range from $10 all the way up to $480 in some states, and defendants can be charged thousands of dollars after a case is over.

The Supreme Court has made it clear that the Sixth Amendment requires the government to provide a lawyer for everyone who is too poor to hire one. Charging a “registration fee” to indigent defendants violates this right.

It also undermines effective representation. In investigating this issue, the ACLU spoke to many public defenders who are deeply troubled by this practice. When a client walks in the door, public defenders almost immediately have to hand the person a form saying that they owe a fee and could be sent to collections if they don’t pay it. This isn’t exactly a recipe for building trust between an attorney and a client.

Even worse, some people may opt to represent themselves when they hear about the fee.

It’s time for other counties in California to follow Los Angeles’s lead. Public defender fees are still authorized in many large counties in California, including San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside, and these counties should take swift action to end public defender fees.

Across California, there are several fees that shift the costs of our criminal justice system onto members of our communities who can least afford to pay them. When a person is convicted of a crime, a multitude of fees are added, often dwarfing the original fine that is the intended as a punishment. These include things such as a “state penalty assessment” to fund state projects, a “court facilities fee” to fund new courthouse building projects, and a fee for the “DNA identification fund,” even if no DNA was collected in the case. These fees add up to a mountain of court debt that can prevent people from getting a job or housing after a criminal conviction.

Eliminating unjust court fees can protect access to justice for low-income residents throughout California.

Political action doesn’t always have to take the form of marching, holding a house party or calling your local representative. You can make a bold and necessary political statement just by buying a movie ticket.

Go see Wonder Woman.

Opening this weekend, Wonder Woman is a Hollywood unicorn: a big-budget action flick centered around a strong female character and directed by a woman. If Hollywood is (it is) a "white boys' club," the action genre is like the exclusionary club’s invitation-only VIP wing.

Women get less than one-third of all speaking roles in top films, let alone top billing as the center of the story. The percentage of high-grossing films directed by women each year is in the low single-digits. The number of women who have been allowed to direct big-budget action films is basically zero percent. It was big news this week, for example, when Gina Prince Blythewood was tapped to be the very first woman of color to direct a superhero movie.

It’s 2017, people. That’s why, at the ACLU’s insistence, the federal government has reportedly charged major studios with systemic gender discrimination against directors.

Why does this matter to you?

The vast majority of film and television we consume are made by white men, telling stories about white men, from a white man’s perspective. Who gets to use their voice to create and produce our nation’s most influential cultural products in turn shape how we see ourselves, our peers and our world. Bias in Hollywood storytelling – the very stories chosen to be told, who gets to tell them and who gets to make the art itself – is a subtle yet pernicious perpetuator of cultural stereotypes, and a foundational component of how white supremacy and patriarchy remain alive and well. We don’t always feel it when we watch, but it’s there, shaping our minds, attitudes and beliefs. It helps determine whether we feel “normal” or “other,” visible or invisible or even whether we see ourselves or people like us reflected in our own culture. Researchers at USC’s Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative, UCLA’s Bunche Center, San Diego State’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film have repeatedly proven that what happens on the screen and behind the camera impacts us. And that’s especially true for our children.

So how can buying a ticket to Wonder Woman make any difference in the world?

Well, the old adage is still true: women have to work twice as hard to succeed. Despite reams of monetary and statistical data showing that consumers really do want to see stories about and made by women and people of color, studios still see these projects as a gamble, even with a proven, talented, respected and successful director like Patty Jenkins.

There is enormous additional, unwarranted and unfair pressure on projects like Wonder Woman to succeed and succeed big. If films like Wonder Woman underperform, it may be eons before we get to see something like this again. And it fuels the false perception that women can’t be “trusted” to direct big-budget films and that consumers don’t care about sexism and racism in Hollywood. So we actually have to show up and see these films.

Plus, politics aside, I’m pretty sure you’ll like Wonder Woman: it has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, for what it’s worth.

These days it’s really easy to feel powerless. But here is something you can do to help make change, effectively, and it doesn’t even require a magic lasso. In addition to seeing the film, join Women in Film’s tweet campaign. While you’re at it subscribe to Women and Hollywood and regularly follow people like Melissa Silverstein (@melsil) and April Reign (@ReignofApril), who started #OscarsSoWhite, to learn about film and television projects about and made by women. Or folks like Shadow and Act (@ShadowandAct), Danny Woodburn (@DannyWoodburn), GLAAD (@Glaad) and National Hispanic Media Coalition (@NHMC) for more on Hollywood inclusion and people of color, people with disabilities and LGBTQ people.

You have enormous power to demand inclusive storytelling in Hollywood, and you can start this weekend.