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Friend,
The House returns next week and is expected to take the lead in
crafting the next COVID relief package. This could be our last chance
before then to push again for desperately needed pandemic relief that
leaves no one behind.
Make
sure your members hear from you that American Jews demand Congress
rise to this moment. It takes just a minute to send them a
message.
You’ll be forwarding them a letter signed by twenty three Jewish
groups, which Bend the Arc sent to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last week with specific asks
for the next package:
- Protect public health, full stop.
- Provide financial relief to the most vulnerable, not
corporations.
- Protect everyone, regardless of their immigration status, age, or
ability.
- Ensure that elections can take place safely.
As the letter says:
We are being offered a false choice
between our lives and our livelihoods, when we should be in mourning
for over 58,000 lives lost unnecessarily.
We should be fighting to end the
horrific racial disparities in deaths and illness.
We should be ensuring our
healthcare workers are safe and supported, and that every person in
this country has access to testing and the care they need.
We shouldn’t just be calling
essential workers heroes — we should be ensuring their essential needs
are met and honored.
Less than a week after we sent the letter, the confirmed
death toll has already grown to over 74,000 lives lost. And the
president and his allies show no plan or ability to keep us safe, and
have no plan or desire to provide real economic relief to millions of
Americans who are suffering in the economic collapse.
Send
this urgent demand to your Representative so it’s in their inbox
before the House is back in session next week.
One thing we know about moments of massive social destabilization
is that antisemitism and white nationalism will surely increase —
including attacks on Jews, immigrants, and Asian Americans — unless
our government responds swiftly and at scale to the pain being
experienced in our country.
On Tuesday we launched a new website — HowToFightAntisemitism.com
— which includes details on the increase in antisemitic conspiracy
theories as a result of the coronavirus.
From Nazi signs at anti-lockdown rallies to gunmen storming state
capitols to politicians calling to send thousands of workers to their
deaths, the dangerous connections between antisemites, white
nationalists, and leaders in the GOP have never been more clear.
It’s not the only reason we’re fighting for public health,
financial relief to the most vulnerable, and election protection, but
it is a reason why we must do this work in powerful solidarity, as
Jews and allies.
Thank you for answering the call to fight for pandemic relief,
The Bend the Arc team
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