Dear Our Revolution supporter,

Thank you for all you are doing, working with Our Revolution, to defeat Donald Trump – and win the Senate – and elect progressives down-ballot. We will celebrate when we win – but we know that winning won’t instantly solve America’s biggest economic challenges.

I invite you to sign a pledge to fight for the new Solidarity Agenda. Working with 100 activists, leaders, and thinkers – many of whom are active in Our Revolution – I have helped to write and circulate it, because, like the others involved, I know we are going to need a broad movement to change the rules of our democracy and fight for large economic change.

We built the Solidarity Agenda around big demands for what Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren call “big structural change” to “unrig” the economic system for the 99 percent. Here are the 5 principles of the Solidarity Agenda, elaborated online.

I. Invest in Economic Recovery, Sustainable Growth and Green Jobs
II. Fight Inequality – Tax Justice, Union Rights, Racial Justice, Empower Women
III. A New Social Contract – Medicare for All, Free Education, Income for Families
IV. Transform Corporate Power
V. A Global Economic Strategy for Working Americans

I urge you to read the full Solidarity Agenda – online – where each of these large goals is elaborated. I think you’ll see it is broadly consistent with the program advanced by OR and Bernie Sanders.

If the Solidarity Agenda represents your vision, please click here and sign the pledge. Although it is not an official project of Our Revolution, the Solidarity Agenda has been endorsed by many current or former OR leaders – including Joseph Geevarghese, Nina Turner, Jane Kleeb, and Jim Hightower. And it gives us an opportunity to work after the election with many people who all agree with our strategy to build a movement against the neoliberalism – and for a progressive economic vision based on the great labor principle of Solidarity.

20,000 activists have already signed the pledge, and we hope you will join them and the 100 initial signers. We want to demonstrate that a new majority is coming to see that prosperity will require economic solidarity: bold investment to create jobs for all, a much stronger social contract, and a Green New Deal – with investment targeted especially to Black, poor, and working class communities hurt the most by the pandemic and the recession. And, of course, to pass these big economic changes, we need to change the undemocratic Senate rules, as we say in the Democracy section under III. New Social Contract.

Shortly after the election, we will launch the SOLIDARITY AGENDA to the media – because if we ever needed to fight for justice, jobs, and sustainable prosperity, the time is NOW.

When you sign the pledge, the organizers will share ideas and actions from the many progressive groups working on aspects of the Solidarity Agenda. And together, we will build a movement to build an economy that works for all Americans and for the world.

In SOLIDARITY,

Larry Cohen
Our Revolution Board Chair