One Struggle, Many Fronts - International Solidarity Against State Violence

While we are devastated by recent international events of state violence from Colombia to Palestine, we are resolute in our work to act in solidarity with oppressed peoples. This past Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people across the world showed up in solidarity with the people of Palestine and their resistance against the violence of settler-colonialism, including land theft and home demolition by the state of Israel. We have a responsibility in the U.S. to defeat settler-colonialism and fascism from within our state and without. We can demand the U.S. stop giving military aid to fascist and violent regimes, contribute what we can to organizations on the ground responding to crises, and continue to educate ourselves and others on the historical and political importance of resisting settler-colonialism and state violence wherever it threatens Indigenous and oppressed peoples. We know from the victory today in Chile that when we fight we win, even if it takes decades of work organizing from the grassroots.

The following resources have been gathered from our sister alliances, member organizations and allies as ways to take action and show support:

Palestine

• Join the call from Palestinians for a general strike.
• Read and share the articles from Grassroots International, Palestinian Feminist Collective, and Arab Resource & Organizing Center for important political context.
• Support H.R. 2590: Representative Betty McCollum's historic bill, H.R. 2590, the Palestinian Children and Families Act ‘insists on the rights to safety, dignity, and freedom for the Palestinian people. Tweet your Congress Members to become co-sponsors.
• Join global actions for solidarity with Palestinians; stay up-to-date about actions in your city.
• Make a donation to Grassroots International’s ‘Palestine Solidarity Emergency Fund.’ 100% of the funds raised will go to organizations on the ground.
• Amplify your voice on social media in the face of censorship and media blackout for Palestine and use these hashtags: #FreePalestine #SheikhJarrah #GazaUnderAttack.

Colombia

• Read the World March of Women statement for important political context.
• Donate to Justicia Racial (Colombia)
• Contact your Rep. to Address Violence in Colombia
• Watch Rising Majority’s call, ‘From Palestine to Colombia: No One is Free Until We are All Free.’

It’s also critical to support people in India, Brazil and elsewhere by advocating for a People’s Vaccine. Global north countries must support #TRIPSwaiver at the World Trade Organization. While Biden has shown support for a waiver, limbo remains at WTO. 

India + Brazil: Stop vaccine apartheid

• Read the latest on efforts to stop vaccine apartheid. People not profits!
• Take action for a PEOPLE’S VACCINE! Tweet big pharma and politicians in the global north.

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by It Takes Roots

Listen to the grassroots / Escuchar a las bases

(español abajo)

 

It Takes Roots to Win People’s Solutions. The work has just begun to hold a Biden presidency accountable to advancing the climate, racial, gender, and housing justice solutions that the frontlines have been pushing for years. We are ready to lead.

Check out this video of It Takes Roots members on solutions from the frontlines

 

We have the solutions to the climate crisis, for a just recovery from the pandemic, and to build a future of regenerative economies that will light a way out of this extractive nightmare destroying the land and causing the death of over 350k people in the U.S. from COVID19.

The people won this election and the people defeated Trump. A record number of Black, Indigenous, people of color, and frontline communities took to the polls in defense of our people and Mother Earth.

No one should be evicted in the middle of a pandemic. No more broken policies. No new pipelines. No more false solutions like carbon markets and geoengineering. It’s time for our solutions to the front.

We need real relief for struggling people. We need a Green New Deal that centers racial and economic justice and is guided by Indigenous principles of just transition. We need feminist foreign policy that moves money from the war machine into a renewed and inclusive social safety net. We need Land Back into Indigenous hands. Now.

We are engaged in strategic direct action, we are formulating proposals for immediate policy change, and we are building local and regional alternatives to the settler-colonialist capitalist economy.

Please share this message so we can build momentum to #WinPeoplesSolutions

 

“We got we. We have the vision and solutions to cultivate the system.” Aghilah Nadaraj, Kheprw Institute, Climate Justice Alliance.

“We cannot afford to let the incoming administration fool us into thinking that ‘meeting in the middle’ is the only way to get anything done.” Frank Southall, Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, Right to the City Alliance.

“We are mobilizing to move the US economy from one that’s extractive and dehumanizing to a worker-centered, feminist regenerative economy,” Trenise Bryant, Miami Workers Center, Grassroots Global Justice.

“The vision for the future is for us all to see each other as being greater together than the sum of our parts,” Ashly Hall, Descendants’ Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network.

Escuchar a las bases

Se Necesitan Raíces para ganar las soluciones de la gente. El trabajo acaba de comenzar para que una presidencia de Biden se haga responsable de promover las soluciones de justicia climática, racial, de género y de vivienda que las bases hemos estado impulsando durante años. Estamos preparados para liderar.

Mira este vídeo de los miembros de It Takes Roots (Se Necesitan Raíces) sobre las soluciones desde la primera línea

 

Tenemos las soluciones para la crisis climática, para una recuperación justa de la pandemia, y para construir un futuro de economías regenerativas que iluminen una salida a esta pesadilla extractiva que destruye la tierra y causa la muerte de más de 350k personas en los EE.UU. por el COVID19.

El pueblo ganó estas elecciones y el pueblo derrotó a Trump. Un número récord de gente negra indígena, de color y comunidades de primera línea acudieron a las urnas en defensa de nuestra gente y de la Madre Tierra.

Nadie debe ser desalojado en medio de una pandemia. No más políticas rotas. No más oleoductos. No más soluciones falsas como los mercados de carbono y la geoingeniería. Es hora de que nuestras soluciones pasen al frente.

Necesitamos un alivio real para las personas que luchan por sobrevivir. Necesitamos un Nuevo Trato Verde que se centre en la justicia racial y económica y se guíe por los principios indígenas de la transición justa. Necesitamos una política exterior feminista que traslade el dinero de la maquinaria de guerra a una red de seguridad social renovada e inclusiva. Necesitamos que la Tierra vuelva a estar en manos de los indígenas. Ahora.

Estamos participando en acciones directas estratégicas, estamos formulando propuestas para un cambio político inmediato y estamos construyendo alternativas locales y regionales a la economía capitalista de los colonos.

Por favor, comparte este mensaje para que podamos dar impulso a #WinPeoplesSolutions (#GanasLasSolucionesDelPueblo)

 

"Tenemos a nosotrxs. Tenemos la visión y las soluciones para cultivar el sistema". Aghilah Nadaraj, Instituto Kheprw, Alianza por la Justicia Climática.

"No podemos permitir que la administración entrante nos engañe pensando que ‘encontrarnos en el medio’ es la única manera de conseguir algo". Frank Southall, Iniciativa de Sostenibilidad Vecinal de Jane Place, Alianza de Derecho a la Ciudad.

"Nos estamos movilizando para que la economía estadounidense deje de ser extractiva y deshumanizada y pase a ser una economía regenerativa y feminista centrada en los trabajadores", Trenise Bryant, Centro de Trabajadores de Miami, La Alianza Popular por la Justicia Global.

"La visión del futuro es que todos nos veamos como algo más grande que la suma de nuestras partes", Ashly Hall, Alianza de Descendientes, la Red Ambiental Indígena.

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by It Takes Roots

We Will Win People's Solutions

Already from the first day the Biden administration is delivering on key demands from our movements, but we know continued bold action is needed to get anywhere near the transformative solutions our communities need to survive and thrive. The work has just begun to hold a Biden presidency accountable to advancing the climate, racial, gender, and housing justice solutions that the frontlines have been pushing for years.

Read more from our sister alliances below on key struggles to support in this period, and how you can take action in the next 100 days.

Biden Revokes Keystone XL, Indigenous Leaders Celebrate and Push for Stronger Action

from Indigenous Environmental Network

Yesterday, Indigenous organizers and our broader climate justice movement won a decade-long campaign against the Keystone XL Pipeline and a temporary moratorium on oil and gas activity in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is a huge victory — AND – we need to keep up momentum to make sure Biden follows through with immediate action on Line 3, Dakota Access (DAPL), rejecting all fossil project approvals, and investing in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and an economy that works for all.

WHAT: #BuildBackFossilFree Digital Rally
WHEN: Tuesday, January 26 from 8:00pm to 9:30pm ET / 5:00pm to 6:30pm PT
WHO: Frontline leaders protecting their communities from fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure
WHERE: RSVP link

Please join Build Back Fossil Free on Tuesday, January 26 for a digital rally calling on President Biden to take bold executive action to end the era of fossil fuel production, protect communities reeling from the climate and COVID-19 crises, and #BuildBackFossilFree. The rally will feature frontline leaders fighting toxic fossil fuel projects and lay the groundwork for a coordinated organizing push to build on this week’s momentum.

Click here to register for the rally

Please also follow Indigenous Environmental Network to amplify a live-stream of the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ienearth

“It is imperative that we keep the pressure on President-elect Biden to put an end to ALL fossil fuel infrastructure and projects, making the ones that are near or on indigenous territories of top priority. We love that KXL will be extinguished but what about Line 3, TransMountain, and numerous others? Every project brought back to the desk of elected officials needs to first be in the hands of the indigenous people with indigenous voices having the first and last say over what happens to the land and water.” Said Tasina Sapa Win Smith, Co-founder of Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective.

Click here to read more

 

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No More Broken Policies: Housing is the Cure

from Right to the City Alliance

Yesterday — on Day 1 — the new Biden administration signed an executive order to extend Trump’s broken federal eviction moratorium. As renters and housing advocates across the country, we are deeply concerned. Millions of renters were already dealing with the weight of the housing crisis before the pandemic hit — surviving the Trump administration and decades of white supremacist and capitalist violence. Our neighborhoods have gone from places where we love, heal, grow, learn, play, rest, and dream to a place where corporations and banks turn a profit, and sheriffs evict our families.

SIGN THE #STOPEVICTIONS PETITION

https://homesforall.me/CDCpetition

We know housing is the cure to this crisis. We call upon the incoming Biden administration to take immediate action to protect our homes, our families, and our communities.

SIGN THIS PETITION to tell President-Elect Joseph R. Biden & Dr. Rochelle Walensky, incoming CDC Director to:

• End evictions + stop utility shut offs: direct the CDC in coordination with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to immediately strengthen, and enforce national moratorium on all evictions and utility shut offs for the duration of the pandemic.
• Cancel rent, mortgages & debt: work with Congress, and State and Local governments to suspend rent & mortgage obligations and all rent, utility, and mortgage debt as result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• We can build a future where those most in need are protected to stay in their homes. A future where every person and family is guaranteed a safe, healthy and dignified home. Sign now to say loud and clear: #HousingIsTheCure!

Click here to read more

 

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Climate Justice Communities Demand Bold Action in First 100 Days

from Climate Justice Alliance

In order to genuinely address the four overlapping crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic crisis, climate change, and racial equity, which the incoming administration has committed to making its most pressing priorities, during the first 100 days of the Biden/Harris Administration, we call on the President to immediately take these 25 key executive actions to build back fossil free by:

• Protecting and investing in the Black, Indigenous, Brown, and working-class communities that have borne the brunt of fossil fuel pollution, extraction and climate disasters;
• Rejecting new fossil fuel projects, eliminating giveaways to oil, gas, and coal corporations, and ending the era of fossil fuel production in a way that fosters a just and equitable transition for workers and communities;
• Launching a national climate mobilization to Build Back Fossil Free, deliver jobs, justice, create real solutions to reducing emissions, and opportunity for all;

While we applaud reversing many of Trump’s policies, including rejoining the international community in the Paris Agreement, this is the bare minimum. Techno-fixes, market schemes, and false solutions to the climate crisis through neo-liberal paradigms like this are neither progressive nor beneficial to our communities. Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which includes carbon offsets and other false mechanisms, should be eliminated from the agreement because it does not align with the values and tenets of climate justice or Indigenous and Tribal sovereignty. Maintaining or increasing sacrifice zones in our communities that are the direct consequence of neo-liberal market based approaches, such as the above and others like carbon market mechanisms and risky geoengineering projects, are not solutions. They are subsidies to Big Business that serve to continue the historical harm the newly-elected President Biden has committed himself to stopping. We need aspirational leadership, not more of the same. We have provided  answers and solutions through various avenues, including but not limited to the THRIVE Agenda, Build Back Fossil Free, National Justice Housing Platform and A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy, and we will hold you accountable to making them happen.

Click here to read more

 

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A Time to Transform: Radical Imaginations of Our Movements / Tiempo de transformar: Imaginaciones radicales de nuestros movimientos

from Grassroots Global Justice

On Inauguration Day, the wave of executive orders—revoking the Keystone XL pipeline and the dehumanizing Muslim travel ban, fortifying DACA protections, and rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement—were all a necessary immediate response from the Biden-Harris adminstration to the rising strength of racial justice movements. Over the past four years, Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities have relentlessly fought against the grave harm and cruelty of the Trump-Pence administration. While we celebrate the relief these initial executive orders will bring to our communities, we are also deeply aware that these are only the return to the baseline of human decency. Our visions and solutions are so much bolder!

“Our movements will fight for healthcare for all, climate justice, dignified wages and reparations. We also will push for foreign policy that rejects U.S. imperialism and undoes the harm done to countless communities from Venezuela to Palestine. As the liberation fighters in Mozambique used to say, ‘la luta continua!’ [the struggle continues]” said Ajamu Dillahunt of Black Workers for Justice.

This week, we celebrate the many strategic ways our grassroots movements have mobilized in this period, and we are energized by this collective brilliance to organize and win. Our grassroots member organizations continue to take transformative actions across the country, setting into motion bold political visions of building a better, more sustainable world.

Click here to read more

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El día de la inauguración presidencial, la ola de órdenes ejecutivas —la revocación del oleoducto Keystone XL y de la deshumanizadora prohibición de viajar a los musulmanes, el fortalecimiento de las protecciones de DACA y la reintegración al Acuerdo Climático de París— fueron una respuesta inmediata necesaria del gobierno Biden-Harris a la creciente fuerza de los movimientos de justicia racial. Durante los últimos cuatro años, las comunidades negras, de color, indígenas y pobres han luchado sin descanso contra el grave daño y la crueldad innecesaria realizados por el gobierno Trump-Pence. Si bien celebramos el alivio que estas órdenes ejecutivas iniciales traerán a nuestras comunidades, también somos profundamente conscientes de que estas son sólo el retorno a la línea de base de la decencia humana. ¡Nuestras visiones y soluciones son mucho más audaces!

“Nuestros movimientos lucharán por la atención médica para todos, la justicia climática, los salarios dignos y las reparaciones. También presionaremos por una política exterior que rechace el imperialismo estadounidense y deshaga el daño causado a innumerables comunidades, desde Venezuela hasta Palestina. Como decían los luchadores por la liberación en Mozambique: ‘la lucha continúa!’” dijo Ajamu Dillahunt de Black Workers for Justice (Trabajadores Negros por la Justicia).

Esta semana, celebramos las muchas formas estratégicas en que nuestros movimientos de base se han movilizado en este período, y nos sentimos energizades por esta brillantez colectiva para organizar y ganar. Nuestras organizaciones de base miembro siguen emprendiendo acciones transformadoras en todo el país, poniendo en marcha audaces visiones políticas para construir un mundo mejor y más sostenible.

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by It Takes Roots

The people have decided and won

Haga clic para el español

Today, we celebrate the defeat of Trump at the hands of our communities. A record number of Black, Indigenous, people of color, and frontline communities took to the polls in the face of a global pandemic and explicit threats from white supremacists to win this election. For the people whose right to vote is suppressed because of immigration status or due to former or current incarceration, we see you. The organizing amongst all these communities is critical to the power of It Takes Roots, and is crucial to Just Transition. We defended the election in swift and effective mobilizations across the country to Count Every Vote and we de-escalated white supremacist violence by bringing joy to the polls.

Our communities have survived and resisted white supremacy and settler colonialism for over 500 years, and we didn't let the past 4 years stop us either. The Trump administration expanded a platform for virulent and deadly white nationalism, and this year we witnessed the failure of neoliberal governance under capitalism laid bare by the continued inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst this pandemic we have mobilized to defend Black lives, asserted Indigenous sovereignty and defeated oil pipelines, built mutual aid infrastructure to meet our communities’ needs, and won eviction moratoriums across the country. Our communities have created platforms like A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy for the kinds of policies that will lay the groundwork for a Just Transition. We are inspired by the broad movements who plan to keep their eyes on the prize to imagine a better future for us all.

 

County Every Vote rally in Philadelphia on 11/4/2020

 

Local Wins

As well as defeating Trump, our movement achieved major victories at the local level. The first Native trans woman, Stephanie Byers, was elected to the Kansas state legislature; progressive community leader and Black Lives Matter activist, Cori Bush, will become Missouri’s first Black woman in Congress; Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones, representing New York in the House of Representatives, will become the first gay Black members of Congress.

In California, Bay Rising members successfully worked to pass Prop 17, which will give the vote back to people on parole, and we continue to hope for the success of Prop 15, which will make corporations pay their fair share of property taxes. In Los Angeles, Measure J passed which will invest in social services and alternatives to incarceration, not prisons and policing. The San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition passed a tax on big real estate transactions to fund affordable housing and provide funds to eliminate rent debt.

Colorado Homes for All won a hard-fought ballot measure for 12 paid weeks family leave that applies to undocumented folks, gig workers, and independent workers. Movement Alliance Project, part of Alliance for Just Philly and Philly Action Council helped flip Pennsylvania against Trump. The Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) helped elect progressive Daniella Levine Cava for Mayor, passed a $15/hour minimum wage, and canvassed hard for a 150k voter turnout. Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in New York helped elect Jamal Bowman to replace longtime Bronx Democrat Eliot Engel, a pro zionist hawk.

What’s Next

Our work to defend this election is not over. While the votes may be counted, it is the electoral college that elects the President of the United States. We’re joining with united front allies for a weekend of action from November 13th - 14th to defend the election results. 

Click here to sign up to take action Nov 13-14

This is our moment to press for bold transformative policies and to be prepared to fight any neoliberal proposals from the Biden Administration. We cannot do this alone. Continuing to work in broader United Front formations, for examples through formations to win a Green New Deal, will be a key component of our collective strategy moving into the next period.

Our movements have been engaging with allies to push for the inclusion of principles like environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and COVID relief in the Green New Deal and legislative vehicles like the THRIVE agenda. Biden has made key commitments to move on environmental policy and we will hold him accountable. The Green New Deal is a mid-term vehicle toward our long-term goals like regenerative economies. It is up to us to push this new administration to move many other critical interventions such as the BREATHE Act, A People’s Orientation for a Regenerative Economy, Housing Justice National Platform, and Feminist Foreign Policy.

We must also be prepared to intensify our organizing against white nationalism and settler-colonialism. The country is divided between people who want a multi-racial, deep democracy and people who cling to and align themselves with white supremacy. Our organizing from the ground up is essential to tip the scales toward justice and build a regenerative economy for people and the Earth. Biden did not win in a landslide even with record turnout, and we are likely facing a Republican-controlled Senate. That means we have a lot of work to do. We are ready to take action to protect our communities against vigilante and white supremacist violence.

 

UPROSE Climate Justice Youth Summit in NYC

Statements from each alliance

Indigenous Environmental Network

“The United States has a new president. Our network will continue to be a driving force in holding the powers in office accountable to the original peoples of these lands and territories. All across Turtle Island Indigenous peoples are rising up to assert our inherent sovereign rights, defend our territories, and protect the future generations. For the health and respect of the sacredness of Mother Earth and Father Sky, we will not falter, Indigenous voices will be heard,” the staff of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Full statement

 

Grassroots Global Justice

“We just saw the mobilizing power of our communities! We know we need to transform this society to have self-determination for people of color, for Indigenous, Black and migrant communities. It’s beyond this election, and we need to not just defeat, but also build the alternatives that exist everywhere in our communities. We are seeing incredible mutual aid networks and solidarity at a local, national and international level,” Grassroots Feminisms National Organizer, Kitzia Esteva-Martinez.

Full statement

 

Climate Justice Alliance

As Acacia “Caci” Maggard, organizer with the Climate Justice Alliance member group Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition stated, “We can’t let politics limit our imagination.” We are driven by the eternal lessons of our ancestors who guide and inform our resiliency, reminding us of our responsibility to shape and sustain our collective future. Climate Justice Alliance is committed to advancing climate justice policy that centers community solutions and grassroots organizing that build the new and fight the bad.

Full statement

 

Right to the City Alliance

“The people have decided and won! We fought, organized and voted to protect ourselves from the tyranny of a fascist regime. Black, Indigenous & People of Color-led organizations came together to show our power.  Our communities aren’t just most impacted, but our people are the ones visioning, creating, and consistently uplifting the clear demands to lead us towards the healthy, safe & thriving communities we all deserve. With millions of renters and their families facing insurmountable debt and evictions at the end of the year, and a new administration rolling in, we know grassroots organizing, base building, mutual aid, and strategies that unite the housing justice movement with other frontline forces will be vital for us to win.” Executive Director, Dawn Phillips

Full Statement

 

OneDC #CancelRent rally in Washington D.C.

 

We have a new president. While the conditions in the terrain of struggle have changed, the time for frontline organizing and leadership are important now more than ever. It is a time for us to gather our forces, assess the moment, and press forward for the demands that seed the ground for Just Transition and the liberation of all our people.

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La gente decidió y ganó

Hoy festejamos la derrota de Trump a mano de nuestras comunidades. Una cantidad récord de comunidades negras, indígenas, de gente de color y de primera línea fue a votar, a pesar de una pandemia global y amenazas explícitas por parte de supremacistas blancos, para ganar esta elección. A la gente cuyo derecho al voto es suprimido por su estatus inmigratorio o por un encarcelamiento previo o actual: les vemos. El trabajo organizativo entre todas estas comunidades es crítico al poder de Se Necesitan Raíces, y es crucial para una Transición Justa. Defendimos la elección a través de movilizaciones rápidas y efectivas en todo el país para Contar Cada Voto, y des-intensificamos la violencia de la supremacía blanca al traer alegría a los lugares de votación.

Nuestras comunidades han sobrevivido y resistido a la supremacía blanca y el colonialismo durante 500 años, y tampoco permitimos que los últimos 4 años nos frenen. La administración de Trump expandió una plataforma para el nacionalismo blanco virulento y letal, y este año fuimos testigos del fracaso de la gobernanza neoliberal bajo el capitalismo expuesto por la  respuesta continuamente inepta a la pandemia de COVID-19. En medio de esta pandemia hemos movilizado para defender las vidas negras, defendimos la soberanía indígena y derrotamos a los oleoductos, construimos infraestructuras de ayuda mutua para satisfacer las necesidades de nuestras comunidades, y ganamos moratorias a los desalojos en todo el país. Nuestras comunidades han creado plataformas como Una Guía del Pueblo para una Economía Regenerativa para los tipos de políticas que establecen los cimientos para una transición justa.  Estamos inspirades por los movimientos amplios que planean mantener la mirada en la meta final para imaginar un futuro para todes.

Victorias locales

Además de derrotar a Trump, nuestro movimiento logró grandes victorias a nivel local. Stephanie Byers se convirtió en la primera mujer indígena trans electa para la legislatura estatal de Kansas; Cori Bush, líder comunitaria progresista y activista de Las Vidas Negras Importan, se convertirá en la primera mujer negra de Missouri en el Congreso; Ritchie Torres Mondaire Jones, representando a Nueva York en la Cámara de Representantes, se convertirán en los primeros miembros negros gay del Congreso.

En California, los miembros de Bay Rising trabajaron exitosamente para aprobar la Prop 17, la cual le devolverá el voto a la gente en libertad condicional, y mantendremos las esperanzas para el éxito de la Prop 15, que hará que las corporaciones paguen su parte justa de los impuestos a la propiedad. En Los Ángeles, la Medida J se aprobó; ésta invertirá dinero en servicios sociales y alternativas al encarcelamiento, no en prisiones y vigilancia policial. La Coalición Anti-Desplazamiento de San Francisco logro que se apruebe un impuesto a las transacciones inmobiliarias grandes para financiar la vivienda asequible y proveer fondos para eliminar la deuda de renta.

Hogares para Todos de Colorado ganó una medida de papeleta muy reñida para obtener 12 semanas pagas de licencia familiar que vale para la gente indocumentada, les trabajadores del sector informal y les trabajadores independientes. El Proyecto de Alianzas del Movimiento, parte de la Alianza por una Philly Justa y el Concejo de Acción de Philly ayudó a tornar a Pensilvania contra Trump. La Coalición de Inmigrantes de Florida (FLIC por sus siglas en inglés) ayudó a elegir a la progresista Daniella Levine Cava como Alcalde, aprobó un sueldo mínimo de $15/hora e hizo mucha campaña para convocar a 150K votantes. Judíos por la Justicia Racial y Económica en Nueva York ayudaron a elegir a Jamal Bowman para remplazar a Eliot Engel, un demócrata de largo plazo en Bronx y halcón pro-sionista.

Lo que sigue

Nuestro trabajo para defender esta elección no ha terminado. Si bien puede que cuenten los votos, es el colegio electoral el que selecciona al Presidente de los Estados Unidos. Estamos juntándonos con aliados del frente unido para un fin de semana de acción del 13 al 15 de noviembre para defender los resultados de las elecciones.

Éste es nuestro momento para poner presión a favor de políticas transformadoras audaces, y estar preparades para luchar contra cualquier propuesta neoliberal de la administración de Biden. No podemos hacer esto soles. Continuar con el trabajo en formaciones del Frente Unido más amplias, por ejemplo a través de formaciones para conseguir un Nuevo Pacto Verde, será un componente clave de nuestra estrategia colectiva entrando en el período siguiente.

Nuestros movimientos han estado actuando con aliades para poner presión para la inclusión de principios como la justicia ambiental, la soberanía indígena y el alivio frente a COVID en el Nuevo Pacto Verde y otros vehículos legislativos como la agenda THRIVE. Biden ha hecho compromisos claves para avanzar con políticas ecologistas, y le haremos rendir cuentas. El Nuevo Pacto Verde es un vehículo de medio plazo en el camino hacia nuestras metas de largo plazo, como las economías regenerativas. Depende de nosotres que presionemos a esta nueva administración para movilizar muchas otras intervenciones críticas como el Acta BREATHE, Una Guía del Pueblo para una Economía Regenerativa, la Plataforma Nacional para la Justicia de Vivienda, y una Política Exterior Feminista.

También debemos estar preparades para intensificar nuestro trabajo organizativo contra el nacionalismo blanco y el colonialismo de asentamiento. El país está dividido entre gente que quiere una profunda democracia multiracial y gente que se adhiere a y alinea con la supremacía blanca. Nuestro trabajo organizativo desde abajo es esencial para inclinar la balanza hacia la justicia y construir una economía regenerativa para la gente y la Tierra. Biden no triunfó de forma aplastante, aun con una concurrencia récord, y es muy probable que estemos enfrentando un Senado controlado por republicanos. Eso significa que tenemos mucho trabajo que hacer. Ya estamos listes para tomar acción para proteger a nuestras comunidades de justicieros y la violencia de la supremacía blanca.

Declaraciones de cada alianza

Red Ambiental Indígena (IEN)

“Estados Unidos tiene un presidente nuevo. Nuestra red seguirá siendo una fuerza propulsora para responsabilizar a los poderes oficiales frente a los pueblos originarios de estas tierras y territorios. En toda la Isla Tortuga, los pueblos indígenas se están levantando para defender nuestros derechos soberanos inherentes, defender nuestros territorios y proteger a las generaciones futuras. Por la salud y el respeto de la sagrada Madre Tierra y el sagrado Padre Cielo, no flaquearemos, las voces indígenas serán oídas.” -- El personal de la Red Ambiental Indígena (IEN)

Declaración entera

 

Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ)

“¡Acabamos de ver el poder movilizador de nuestras comunidades! Sabemos que necesitamos transformar esta sociedad para tener auto-determinación para la gente de color, para las comunidades indígenas, negras y migrantes. Va más allá de esta elección, y debemos no sólo derrotar, sino también construir las alternativas que ya existen en todos lados en nuestras comunidades. Estamos viendo las increíbles redes de ayuda mutua y solidaridad a nivel local, nacional e internacional.” -- Kitzia Esteva-Martinez, Organizadore Nacional de Feminismos de la Base

Declaración entera

 

Alianza por la Justicia Climática (CJA)

Como delcaró Acacia “Caci” Maggard, organizadora con la Coalición Medioambiental Estudiantil de Kentucky, grupo miembro de la Alianza por la Justicia Climática: “no podemos dejar que la política limite nuestra imaginación.” Somos motivades por las lecciones eternas de nuestros antepasados que guían y nutren nuestra resiliencia, recordándonos de nuestra responsabilidad para moldear y sustentar nuestro futuro colectivo. La Alianza por la Justicia Climática está comprometida a avanzar políticas de justicia climática que centran soluciones comunitarias y la organización de la base para crear lo nuevo y luchar contra lo malo.

Declaración entera

 

Alianza Derecho a la Ciudad 

“¡El pueblo decidió y ganó! Luchamos, organizamos y votamos para protegernos de la tiranía de un régimen fascista. Las organizaciones lideradas por gente negra, indígena y de color nos unificamos para mostrar nuestro poder. Nuestras comunidades no sólo son las más impactadas, sino que nuestra gente es la que está imaginando, creando y consistentemente elevando las claras demandas que nos llevarán a tener las comunidades sanas, seguras y prósperas que todes merecemos. Con millones de inquilinos y sus familias enfrentando una deuda insuperable y desalojos a fin de año, y una nueva administración entrando, sabemos que la organización y el desarrollo de la base, la ayuda mutua y estrategias que unifican al movimiento de justicia en la vivienda con otras fuerzas de primera línea serán vitales para que ganemos.” -- Dawn Philips, Director Ejecutivo

Declaración entera

 

Tenemos un nuevo presidente. Si bien las condiciones en el campo de la lucha han cambiado, la organización y el liderazgo de las primeras líneas son más importantes que nunca. Es un tiempo para que juntemos nuestras fuerzas, evaluemos el momento y presionemos con las demandas que plantan las semillas para una transición justa y para la liberación de todos nuestros pueblos.

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by It Takes Roots

Together we weather the storm / Juntos le hacemos frente a la tormenta

This week we are casting our ballots and showing up to defend the election. We do it not for candidates but for our communities and a deeply democractic future. A number of local races will have an immediate and direct impact to fight climate change, advance housing justice, and build a care economy rooted in values of grassroots feminism and Indigenous sovereignty. Still we know we can’t rely on politicians and policy, so we also show up in direct action and mutual aid to defend our people and the earth. Our struggles are interconnected and we will need to have each other’s backs in this moment of uncertainty.

Watch the following testimonials from members of each of our sister alliances and share them widely to ground ourselves in what we are fighting for in this moment and the long-term solutions we hold as a movement. It takes roots to weather the storm.

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Esta semana vamos a emitir nuestros votos y nos haremos presente para defender las elecciones. No lo hacemos por los candidatos, sino por nuestras comunidades y un futuro profundamente democrático. Varias elecciones locales tendrán un impacto inmediato y directo para luchar contra el cambio climático, promover la justicia de la vivienda y construir una economía del cuidado arraigada en los valores del feminismo de base y la soberanía indígena. Aún así, sabemos que no podemos confiar en los políticos y sus políticas, por lo que también nos hacemos presente en acción directa y ayuda mutua para defender a nuestra gente y la tierra. Nuestras luchas están interconectadas y tendremos que respaldarnos mutuamente en este momento de incertidumbre.

Ve los siguientes testimonios de los miembros de cada una de nuestras alianzas hermanas y compártelos ampliamente para mantenernos anclados en lo que estamos luchando en este momento y en las soluciones a largo plazo que tenemos como movimiento. Se necesitan raíces para hacerle frente a la tormenta.

Video editing by www.iamjosequintana.com

Click here to watch / Haz clic aquí para ver

“Everyone deserves safe, healthy and stable housing. We need social housing that is guaranteed.”

“Todos merecen una vivienda segura, saludable y estable. Necesitamos vivienda social que esté garantizada.”

 

Click here to watch / Haz clic aquí para ver

“Growing food, fighting against climate ignorance, we understand that all of these things, our health, the health of the air, the health of the soil, the health of the land, are connected.”

“Al cultivar alimentos y luchar contra la ignorancia climática, entendemos que todas estas cosas-- nuestra salud, la salud del aire, la salud del suelo y la salud de la tierra-- están conectadas.”

 

Click here to watch / Haz clic aquí para ver

“We dare to abolish the carceral system, and dream beyond bars to close youth prisons and build youth leaders.”

“Nos atrevemos a abolir el sistema carcelario y soñamos más allá de las rejas para cerrar las cárceles juveniles y formar líderes juveniles.”

 

Click here to watch / Haz clic aquí para ver

“Indigenous knowledge and perspective, those are the solutions to mitigate climate change and achieve climate balance.”

“El conocimiento y perspectiva indígena son las soluciones para mitigar el cambio climático y lograr el equilibrio climático.”

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by It Takes Roots

Support Defense of Black Lives / Apoya la defensa de las vidas negras

• Climate Justice Alliance statement
• Grassroots Global Justice statement
• Indigenous Environmental Network statement
• Right to the City - Black land & housing teach-in

[abajo en español]

Our hearts are heavy, filled with sorrow and rage at the continued loss of Black life at the hands of the police and vigilantes. We grieve and demand justice for Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and all the other Black lives stolen because of the systemic injustice of police violence, racism and the terror of white supremacy. It Takes Roots, as an alliance of organizations led by Black, grassroots Indigenous peoples, people of color frontline workers, women, migrant, and gender nonconforming people, stands in solidarity with the rebellions in Minneapolis/St. Paul and across the country and world demanding justice for Black lives.

In this moment where Black communities are disproportionately hit by the Covid19 pandemic, they continue to be disproportionately the victims of state sanctioned violence. Instead of effective state resources going to protect life in Black, Brown and Indigenous communities, the police and carceral state is well-resourced to oppress and kill our people. Officers wear paramilitary gear but doctors in hospitals struggle to have basic personal protective equipment. We have a president who regularly encourages state and vigilante violence, and most recently echoed a threat from Miami police chief in 1967, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” and has urged the deployment of the “unlimited power of our military” in response to protests across the country. In Frontline communities across the country, there are police departments practicing a culture of racism, oppression and violence that do not protect us. Especially in a pandemic, now is the time to divest from these police departments and invest in our communities needs instead.

Property is not more important than life. We support the uprising of people who have been ignored by the state and those in power after years of nonviolent protests in response to police murders. A number of people-of-color owned businesses in Minneapolis and beyond are showing solidarity with the protestors and demands for justice. The false binary of “good protestor” and “bad protestor” is an attempt to divide our movements and sow the seeds of mistrust. We must do all we can to build relationships in the streets and across the country to support one another and understand that a diversity of tactics is needed to challenge white supremacy. Self-defense is a human right.

Along with other frontline allies, we have been planning the release of an organizing tool “A People's Orientation to a Regenerative Economy,” in which we explicitly call for the Protection, Repair, Investment, and Transformation of Black Communities as a plank to restore relationship and ecological balance. Stay tuned for the release on June 10th. ITR continues on that trajectory explicitly supporting M4BL week of actions to #DefundPolice and #DefendBlackLives.

We know that we are here because the current system of exploitation, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, is designed to oppress our people. While we mobilize to defend Black life, we do so to organize for a future anti-racist regenerative economy by the people and in recognition of the sacredness of Mother Earth. We stand together for a future where Black Lives Matter is a true reality, where we’ve fought for and designed a system where the lives of all beings on this Earth are honored and supported to reach their full potential.

It Takes Roots demands an end to police violence and all institutions that are built on the subjugation, control and dehumanization of Black people. As we seek a Just Transition to a regenerative, anti-racist, feminist economy, we must eliminate the mainstays of an extractive economy embedded in racialized capitalism. It Takes Roots unites with the call for action and demands of The Movement for Black Lives. Join us in lifting these up and broadcasting the actions in defense of Black lives.

 

“As Indigenous peoples we defend the lives of our Black and Afro Indigenous Relatives. With love in our hearts for Black Lives, we will continue to speak up and show up until Black Liberation on Turtle Island is achieved. For far too long we have allowed our shared oppressors that serve white supremacy to try and divide us. Enough is enough. M8atahk8nâhsak Ukeetyâôkanuwôash m8hchee wut8ânutamunash ‘Black skinned peoples lives must be respected/regarded’”

Eva Blake, Indigenous Environmental Network member

 

“...We stand in solidarity with people across the country who are mobilizing and taking to the streets, for we understand that these acts are not just a demonstration of grief, but also examples of living our individual and collective power. We see this as a time to intervene in the cycle of murder->protest -> repression -> oppression -> murder through organized and deliberate actions and demands to #defundpolice and #defendblacklife based on climate justice, land reclamation and food sovereignty and transform our reality. We want to offer mature leadership grounded in long term politics to guide and creatively build our collective future while supporting our youth and frontline communities who are face-to-face with state violence in the present.”
- Climate Justice Alliance Black Caucus Co-Chairs

 

“The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent uprising is a sign of the continuing escalation of violence against Black and Brown communities during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Police violence in Minneapolis has been especially acute over the years so it was predictable that something like this would happen resulting in this militant response.

While the suffering from the horrors of the virus in terms of deaths, illness, unemployment and dangerous work suffocate us the police state apparatus has not lightened up but tightened up. The outrage cannot be contained and is spreading across the country. The fight to end police murders is now joined with the fight for safe jobs and universal health care. The immediate task is justice for George Floyd which means indictments for all of the four assassins.”

- Ajamu Dillahunt, Black Workers for Justice and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

 

"We are murdered, evicted, incarcerated, and sickened by agents of oppression with various names: officer, judge, CEO, or president. They are all parts of two larger pieces--white supremacy and racial capitalism--of the same machine. This machine was built by our looted ancestors, continues to be oiled by prison workers in factories making license plates and bomb parts, and kept humming during a pandemic by Black and Brown essential workers behind the grills and registers. Now more than ever, the display of unity and love for Black lives happening around the world is urgently needed for all of our survival. We proudly stand in solidarity with millions of people rising up demanding justice."

- City Life/Vida Urbana community, Right to the City Alliance member

Join the call from M4BL in Defense of Black lives

The Movement For Black Lives, and organizers mobilizing across the country, invite you to rise up with us and say no more! This is an opportunity to uplift and fight alongside those turning up in the streets and on the airwaves. Mobilize in solidarity with activists and organizers across the country and world saying enough is enough. Change your social media profile pictures to the image below this week to show that you are committed to being in defense of Black lives.

#DefundPolice #DefendBlackLife

Tag @Mvmnt4BlkLives @ItTakesRoots on social media during your actions.

Go to https://www.defendingblacklives.org/ for more resources.

 

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Apoya la defensa de las vidas negras: Semana Nacional de Acción

Nuestros corazones están cargados de dolor y rabia ante la continua pérdida de vidas negras a manos de la policía y los vigilantes.  Estamos de luto y exigimos justicia para Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd y todas las otras vidas negras que han sido robadas por la injusticia sistémica de la violencia policiaca, el racismo y el terror de la supremacía blanca. It Takes Roots, como una alianza de organizaciones dirigidas por negros, indígenas de base, trabajadores de color de primera línea, mujeres, inmigrantes y personas de género no conforme, se une en solidaridad con las insurrecciones en Minneapolis/St. Paul y a través de todo el país exigiendo justicia por las vidas negras.

En este momento en que las comunidades negras están siendo atacadas desproporcionadamente por la pandemia del Covid19, continúan siendo víctimas desproporcionadamente de violencia sancionada por el estado.  En vez de recursos estatales efectivos para proteger las vidas en las comunidades negras, marrones e indígenas, la policía y el estado carcelario tienen buenos recursos para oprimir y matar a nuestra gente. Los oficiales usan equipo paramilitar, pero los doctores en los hospitales luchan por tener equipo protectivo personal básico.  Tenemos un presidente que regularmente incita a la violencia estatal y de vigilantes y recientemente hizo eco de una amenaza de un jefe de la policía de Miami del 1967, “cuando comiencen los saqueos, comienzan los disparos,” y ha exhortado a que se despliegue el “poder ilimitado de nuestra milicia”  como respuesta a las protestas a través del país. En comunidades de primera línea por todo el país, hay departamentos de la policía practicando una cultura de racismo, opresión y violencia que no nos protege. Especialmente en una pandemia, ahora es el momento de desligarnos de estos departamentos de la policía e invertir en vez en las necesidades de las comunidades.

La propiedad no es más importante que la vida.  Apoyamos el levantamiento de las personas que han sido ignoradas por el estado y por aquéllos en poder después de años de protestas no violentas en respuesta a los asesinatos por la policía. Un número de negocios de personas de color en Minneapolis y más allá están mostrando solidaridad con los manifestantes y clamando por la justicia.  La binaria falsa del “ manifestante bueno” y el “manifestante malo” es un intento de dividir nuestros movimientos y sembrar la semilla de la desconfianza.  Tenemos que hacer todo lo que esté a nuestro alcance para crear relaciones en las calles y alrededor del país para apoyarnos unos a otros y entender que la diversidad de tácticas es necesaria para desafiar la supremacía blanca.  La defensa propia es un derecho humano.

Junto a otros aliados de primera línea hemos estado planificando el lanzamiento de la herramienta organizativa “A People's Orientation to a Regenerative Economy” (Una orientación popular para una economía regenerativa), donde explícitamente hacemos un llamado para la Protección, la Reparación, la Inversión y la Transformación de las comunidades negras como una plataforma para restaurar las relaciones y el balance ecológico. Mantente sintonizado para el lanzamiento el 10 de junio. ITR continúa en esa trayectoria explícitamente apoyando la semana de acción de  M4BL para desinvertir en la policía y defender las vidas negras #defundpolice #defendblacklives.

Sabemos que estás aquí porque el sistema actual de explotación, el patriarcado de la supremacía blanca, está diseñado para oprimir a nuestra gente.  Mientras que nos movilizamos para defender las vidas negras, lo hacemos para organizarnos por una economía futura regenerativa y antiracista dirigida por la gente y en reconocimiento de la Madre Tierra. Nos ponemos juntos de pie por un futuro donde Las Vidas Negras de verdad importen, donde habremos luchado por y diseñado un sistema donde las vidas de todos los seres vivientes en la tierra sean honradas y apoyadas para que alcancen su máximo potencial.

It Takes Roots exige un fin a la violencia policiaca y a todas las instituciones construidas en la subyugación, el control y la deshumanización de la gente negra.  Mientras buscamos una transición justa hacia una economía regenerativa, antirracial y feminista, debemos eliminar los pilares de una economía extractiva integrada en un capitalismo racializado. It Takes Roots se une al llamado a la acción y a las reclamaciones del Movimiento por las Vidas Negras.  Únete a nosotros en elevar éstas y transmitir las acciones en defensa de las vidas negras.

 

“Los Pueblos Indígenas defendemos las vidas de nuestrxs parientes negrxs y afroindígenas. Con amor en nuestros corazones por las vidas negras, seguiremos hablando en voz alta y estando presentes hasta que haya sido lograda la liberación negra en toda la Isla Tortuga. Por demasiado tiempo hemos permitido que nuestrxs opresorxs comunes, que le prestan servicio a la supremacía blanca, traten de dividirnos. Basta. M8atahk8nâhsak Ukeetyâôkanuwôash m8hchee wut8ânutamunash (Las personas con tez negra deben ser valoradas/respetadas)”.

- Eva Blake, Indigenous Environmental Network member (miembro de la Red Ambiental Indígena)

 

“...Nos mantenemos firmes en solidaridad con las personas a lo largo del país que se están movilizando y tomando las calles en estos momentos, pues entendemos que estos actos no son solamente una demostración de dolor, sino ejemplos de cómo vivir nuestro poder individual y colectivo. Vemos esto como un tiempo para intervenir en el ciclo de asesinato-> protesta-> represión -> opresión -> asesinato, a través de acciones organizadas y deliberadas y demandas para desinvertir en la policía #defundpolice y defender las vidas negras #defendblacklife, en base a la justicia climática, el reclamo de tierras y la soberanía alimentaria y la transformación de nuestra realidad. Queremos ofrecer un liderazgo maduro enraizado en las políticas a largo plazo para guiar y construir creativamente nuestro futuro colectivo, al mismo tiempo que apoyamos a nuestros jóvenes y a las comunidades en las primeras líneas que están enfrentando la violencia estatal en el presente”.
- Climate Justice Alliance Black Caucus Co-Chairs (Cónclave Negro de la Alianza para la Justicia Climática)

 

“El asesinato policiaco de George Floyd en Minneapolis y el alzamiento subsecuente es una señal del escalamiento continuo de la violencia en contra de las comunidades negras y de color durante la pandemia de la COVID-19. La violencia policiaca en Minneapolis ha sido especialmente aguda a lo largo de los años, por lo que era predecible que algo como esto pasara y que haya resultado en esta respuesta militante.

Si bien el sufrimiento por los horrores del virus en cuanto a muertes, enfermedades, desempleo y trabajo peligroso nos está sofocando, el aparato policiaco estatal no se ha aligerado, sino que se ha endurecido. La indignación no puede ser contenida y se está esparciendo por todo el país. La lucha para ponerle fin a los asesinatos cometidos por policías ahora se une a la lucha por los trabajos seguros y el seguro médico universal. La tarea inmediata es la justicia para George Floyd, es decir, que se presenten acusaciones formales para todos los cuatro asesinos”.

- Ajamu Dillahunt, Black Workers for Justice and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (Trabajadorxs Negrxs por la Justicia y Alianza Popular por la Justicia Global)

 

"Lxs agentes de la opresión nos asesinan, desalojan, encarcelan y hacen enfermar y ellxs tienen varios nombres: agente, juez, director/a ejecutivo/a o presidente. Ellxs son parte de 2 piezas más grandes de la misma máquina: la supremacía blanca y el capitalismo racial. La máquina fue construida gracias a la destitución de nuestros ancestros y sigue siendo alimentada por lxs trabajadorxs en las prisiones que trabajan fabricando placas para vehículos y partes de bombas; una máquina que sigue zumbando durante la pandemia gracias a lxs trabajadorxs esenciales negrxs y de color que se encuentran detrás de parrillas y cajas registradoras. Ahora más que nunca, la muestra de unidad y amor por las vidas negras que está ocurriendo por todo el mundo es urgentemente necesaria para la supervivencia de todxs. Orgullosamente nos paramos en solidaridad con millones de personas que se están alzando para demandar justicia”.

- City Life/Vida Urbana community, Right to the City Alliance member (miembro de la Alianza por el Derecho a la Ciudad)

 

Únete al llamado de M4BL en defensa de las vidas negras

El Movimiento por las vidas negras, junto a organizadores movilizándose por todo el país, te invita a levantarte con nosotros y ¡a decir basta!  Ésta es una oportunidad para animarnos y luchar junto a aquéllos que están protestando en las calles y en las emisoras.  Movilízate en solidaridad con los activistas y organizadores de todo el país y el mundo para decir ¡Basta ya! Cambia tu perfil en las redes sociales por la imagen a continuación esta semana para demostrar que estás comprometido en la defensa de las vidas negras.

#DefundPolice #DefendBlackLife

Taguea @Mvmnt4BlkLives @ItTakesRoots en las redes sociales durante tus acciones

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by It Takes Roots

Join It Takes Roots in Action this May Day

Friday marks May Day, International Workers Day, and It Takes Roots is helping lead a huge coalition of progressive groups calling for a # PeoplesBailout. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear once more that only we can keep us safe, and that the extractive economy is not serving our people. It is healthcare workers, farm workers, grocery store workers, warehouse workers, caregivers, and other workers who are essential, not the bosses and bankers who are profiteering off our exploitation.

On May 1, 2020, we invite you to join us in taking action this#MayDay by attending our  Live Stream Rally at ThePeoplesBailout.org/MayDay at 2:00pm ET or holding an action of your own.

It Takes Roots stands with MayDay strikes and walk-outs that are being organized by workers at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and FedEx. Workers are on the forefront of shaping new economies rooted in fairness, equity and ecological values.

Frontline, community-based organizations have been building localized democracies that champion community rights to energy, land, water, housing, and food sovereignty. Together, we are engaged in the fight for people-centered regenerative economies and healthy, self-sustained communities.

TAKE ACTION FOR A #PEOPLESBAILOUT:

• Host your own action or find one here
• Pledge to participate in an action as an individual or family 

During the rally: share a picture or video of you and your family talking about what you want to see from a #PeoplesBailout. Don't forget to include the hashtag #PeoplesBailout and demand action by tagging your representative and President Trump. Tag It Takes Roots in your posts and we will amplify them on the ITR social media channels.

In this moment, Congress must pass relief and stimulus packages to meet the needs of our communities. People are coming together to demand regular monthly cash payments to all communities (including undocumented immigrants), free testing and treatment for all, safety standards and equipment to protect frontline workers, emergency housing assistance and rent and mortgage cancellation, a moratorium on water and electricity shutoffs, resources for Indian country, funding to address the racial disparities of this crisis, expanded food aid, support for businesses that are actually small, protections for voters and poll workers to safeguard our democracy, and real investment in a bold plan to put millions of people back to work building a healthier, more equitable, more resilient economy.

We must invest in our people, not corporate executives. We must chart a path to an economy that works for all, not a return to the unjust status quo.

 

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The People’s Strike/ #GeneralStrike2020 

People’s Strike: Fighting for Our Lives, Forging Our Future

Take Action Friday May 1st, 2020 – May Day

The CODVID-19 pandemic has starkly revealed the inequalities and injustices that daily plague the world.

The triple crises of viral plague, systemic economic breakdown, and the failure and/or unwillingness of Governments to provide necessary protections, especially for the poor and people subjected to white supremacy, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and misogyny has thrown us into a fight for our lives.

People’s Strike is a growing coalition of workers, community, and political organizations confronting the COVID-19 pandemic by struggling against inept and corrupt government and the forces of capital (banks, corporations, brokers, etc). that put profit before the people and the planet.

We say ENOUGH! It is time to stand up! It’s Time To Strike Back – For Our Lives and Our Futures!

Join us in initiating this mass action on Friday, May 1st, 2020. We are encouraging everyone throughout the U.S. and the world to join us in engaging #NoWork #NoShopping #NoRent #NoMortgage #NoEviction #NoDebt #NoSchool #NoPrison #NoDetention actions. Let’s send Trump and Wall Street a clear message: #WeWontDieForWallSt #PeopleAndPlanetOverProfits

Read the Principles and Demands

Take Action 

Join the May Day 24 hour Pacifica Radio Broadcast

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by It Takes Roots