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We have won back the White House, but we’ve got our work cut out for us. While more American voted for the Biden/Kamala ticket than any other president in history (the 3rd largest vote share ever), 74.5 million people (white people mostly) voted for Trump. We can’t just vote out white supremacy. We have to dismantle it.
And calls to come together and unite are not going to get us there. We cannot nice-nice white supremacy and we cannot negotiate with hate. Rather, we must align so fiercely with love and freedom that our stance is undeniable.
Yvette Simpson put it best when she said:
“Unity is great, but freedom is better. And there is the part of this population that has sacrificed their freedom time and time again….I want the kind of unity that leads to change for the people who have waited for it. And if this pandemic hasn’t showed us that we need to serve people first; and that that needs to be a unifying message. The Republicans need to be on board with actually taking care of people. If we can unify around that, I’m all on board.”
It is up to us to steer the future that we deserve. Let us not compromise on love. Let us live it fully.
Kerri (she/her)
No, it’s not time to bring the country together. It’s time to do what’s right. How “unity is for white people. [[link removed]] [click to tweet] [[link removed]]
As democracy hangs in the balance, activists are drawing lessons from the study of civil resistance. How to stop a power grab. [[link removed]] [click to tweet] [[link removed]]
Unless Americans act aggressively against COVID, it will get much larger, very quickly. It’s time to hunker down. [[link removed]] [click to tweet] [[link removed]]
Republicans are working to convince voters that any election that does not produce a Republican win, is inherently fraudulent and need not be acknowledged or respected. It’s nothing short of an attack on democracy itself. [[link removed]] [click to tweet] [[link removed]]
In the context of social isolation and forced dependency on hostile systems, Mutual Aid is essential to our survival [[link removed]]regardless of who’s in the White House. [click to tweet] [[link removed]]
Black women organizers won Georgia for Biden. [[link removed]] If properly supported, they’ll win the Senate as well. Here’s what you need to know:
Key dates:
Voter registration deadline: 12/7
Early voting: 12/14-12/18, 12/21-12/23, 12/26, 12/28-12/31
Request early ballot by 12/15th
Election Day: 1/5
Why a runoff?
Neither of Georgia’s Republican Senators drew a majority on Election day, sending both of their races to special rematches in January that will likely determine control of the Senate.
What can I do?
Help young people get registered. [[link removed]]There are 23k people who will turn 18 on our before 1/5 who can be registered today.
Support Local Organizers [[link removed]]: #WinBothSeats is supporting Black and Brown led community organizers – with a proven track record in Georgia. Donate to help them win!
We just lost a hero in our community. Catharine Ashton was a fierce and loving activist who devoted her life to healing from trauma and fighting for justice. To know her was to be inspired by her. But grieving her loss is bound up with the heartbreak of so much and so many over the last 9 months. And with the holidays fast approaching and COVID breaking out all around the country, the next couple weeks are likely to be challenging. How do we prepare ourselves for the uncertainty and discomfort ahead? How do we grieve? Here’s one of our favorite articles on grief and discomfort [[link removed]] and how to take care of ourselves along the way.
Sonya Renee Taylor [[link removed]] and adrienne maree brown [[link removed]] are both fascinated with how we heal, love and reclaim our right to be liberated from the inside out. How do we speak the truth to ourselves until we cannot speak anything else, to ourselves, to others, to power? Join these two powerhouse visionary thinkers to dream together on the next steps in collective healing. Who knows, something new might even be birthed! Sign up for “Permission to Imagine: Radical Love & Pleasure” [[link removed]] on December 5th!
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