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Michael Moore is being called a cowardly hypocrite for organizing a pre-Inauguration Day protest in New York that will draw attention away from the anti-Trump demonstrations happening in Washington, DC.

The filmmaker is leading a protest Thursday outside Trump International Hotel & Tower with Mark Ruffalo, Alec Baldwin and Mayor de Blasio, while Green Party leader Jill Stein will be in DC’s Franklin Square Park with the anti-war, anti-nuke movement.

Veteran leftist activist John Penley, who is organizing Thursday’s “Homes Not Bombs” concert and no-nukes protest near the White House, called Moore’s event, put together by Greenpeace and MoveOn, a “publicity stunt” and “a joke.”

“Moore has been saying people should ‘disrupt’ the Inauguration in DC. Now he organizes an event at Trump [Hotel] in NYC the day before the Inauguration,” Penley told me.

“Moore could have done this event in DC, but he’s afraid of going to jail,” Penley said, noting that Moore gave speeches at Zuccotti Park during Occupy Wall Street, but was never there “when people were getting beaten up and tear-gassed.”

Penley and co-organizer Rev. Bruce Wright preach nonviolence, but anarchists have vowed to block the inaugural parade, disrupt subway service and barricade streets.