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John --
We’re writing to fortify the community and provide resources for principled action in preparation for the election and its aftermath. Calls to action and more info below.
Uncertainty and crisis can exacerbate our race and/or class patterns around individualism and expecting comfort, especially as young people with access to wealth. A month ago my election anxiety was manifesting in Youtube wormholes about how to put together a high-tech go bag. My wealthy loved ones are half-joking about leaving the country if 45 stays in power (despite his first term massively enriching the 1% at the expense of…. everyone else). Our underlying motivations? Protect ourselves, go it alone. This is not a winning strategy.
As the Movement for Black Lives has asserted, we’re not choosing a candidate, we’re choosing conditions under which to organize for redistribution, safety and justice for all people.
This is likely to be a long election season filled with threat and possibility. Nationally, we are in conversations with Movement for Black Lives and Center for Popular Democracy, preparing for many scenarios that include a contested election, disinformation, ongoing pandemic, mass mobilization, and a period of heightened white supremacist and state violence.
Movement history teaches us that the best way to combat encroaching authoritarianism is with mass coordinated action by a multi-racial, cross-class majority. Luckily, we have an opportunity and a mandate to be part of that majority. Community power and movement strength are the best election protectors, indeed the best protectors of people and planet.
In the coming weeks our role is to hold steady and dig into our commitments to our partners and each other. No matter the outcome, we will:
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Welcome and agitate newly activated class traitors to build the strength of movements.
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Be prepared to move resources and welcome young people with wealth and class privilege into community and principled action.
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Flank BIPOC and working class movements to the ballot box (we still need contributions to our partners’ electoral work!), in mutual aid, in the call to count every vote, in the push for a potential Biden administration to adopt redistribution policies, and especially as and if Trump tries to steal the election.
The rest of this email contains information about how to find a role and a crew in the coming weeks:
Resource Generation will host space to get clear information and take action in the days and weeks post-election.
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Thursday Nov. 5th- Communication from RG National with calls to action from partners
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Friday Nov 6th,- All Member Call: more info to follow
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Making Money Make Change: Nov. 13th and Saturday, Nov. 14th from 1-6 pm ET/10-3pm PT.
Resources and actions to prepare for a (contested) election and beyond:
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We have a $300k gap to close to meet our commitment to the M4BL Electoral Justice project and are still fundraising for Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) Action-- can you or your chapter help us get there? Info on how to give HERE. Sign the Electoral Giving Pledge to let us know you contributed to the goal! If you have made a pledge already, today is a great day to follow through. Let’s keep our commitments and build accountability.
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Volunteer your time with electoral projects that build the movement:
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Prepare to mobilize if we’re called
With Care and Determination,
Nora and the RG Action Team
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