 Dear John, Wide Awake protests are building momentum from coast to coast, sending a message to politicians that we are done asking nicely for them to do their jobs. People are suffering while their representatives do nothing and we have had enough.
When people ask why we’re interrupting the sleep of local politicians, the answer is simple: Because it works. These tactics are over a century old, inspired by the Wide Awakes, a pro-abolition mass youth movement in the 1860s (right before the Civil War) who turned anti-abolition representatives’ lives into waking nightmares by banging pots and pans outside their windows. Amid a raging pandemic, with over 5 million confirmed cases and over 165,000 dead, the Senate can't agree on more than scraps for “relief” and have walked away from Washington until September, leaving millions of struggling people wondering how they’re going to survive the coming months. This is unacceptable. Representatives are asleep on the job while millions lose their homes, their unemployment insurance, and their lives. If we can’t sleep for fear of what tomorrow brings, then neither should they. No justice, no sleep. Stay strong, Victoria |
