“Now is the time to be visionary! The implications of climate change are global. The THRIVE Agenda offers the Biden-Harris administration a profound opportunity to take a bold step towards a just economy for people and the planet, one that creates millions of green jobs and restores dignity to the life-giving labor of our care workers and centers Black, Brown and Indigenous
peoples.” —Margaret Kwateng, GGJ’s National Green New Deal Organizer. On Inauguration Day, the wave of executive orders—revoking the Keystone XL pipeline and the dehumanizing Muslim travel ban, fortifying DACA protections, and rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement—were all a necessary immediate response from the Biden-Harris adminstration to the rising strength of racial justice movements. Over the past four
years, Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities have relentlessly fought against the grave harm and needless cruelty of the Trump-Pence administration. While we celebrate the relief these initial executive orders will bring to our communities, we are also deeply aware that these are only the return to the baseline of human decency. Our visions and solutions are so much bolder!
"Our movements will fight for healthcare for all, climate justice, dignified wages and reparations. We also will push for foreign policy that rejects U.S. imperialism and
undoes the harm done to countless communities from Venezuela to Palestine. As the liberation fighters in Mozambique used to say, ‘la luta continua!’” said Ajamu Dillahunt of Black Workers for Justice. This week, we celebrate the many strategic ways our grassroots movements have mobilized in this period, and we are energized by this collective brilliance to organize and win. Our grassroots member organizations
continue to take transformative actions across the country, setting into motion bold political visions of building a better, more sustainable world.
We’re inspired by these powerful actions and key demands from members and allies:
- On the heels of the executive orders, our sister alliance and GGJ member, the Indigenous Environmental Network, reiterated demands to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline and Enbridge Line 3 to end a destructive era of fossil fuel extraction and #BuildBackFossilFree.
- We joined visionary grassroots movements to launch the Green
New Deal Network, a progressive agenda that will create millions of dignified jobs, while centering racial and climate justice.
- Earlier this month, our sister alliance Right to the City and their members led a powerful national day of action to stop evictions,
issuing a thundering rallying call answered by Biden’s extension of the eviction moratorium. And more needs to be done! We echo their demands to now #cancelrent and end evictions.
- Our migrant justice members, like CATA and Mujeres Unidas y Activas among others, continue to underscore the urgency to abolish ICE, respect the bodily integrity of all womxn, and demand accountability for forced hysterectomies.
- As we once again witness militarization targeting migrant communities fleeing structural violence, we support the call for Biden to overhaul U.S. foreign policy in Central America and join in solidarity with AROC, the Yemeni Alliance Coalition and the Stop the
War Coalition for their global day of action on January 25 saying NO to War in Yemen.
- We continue to be inspired by members and allies at M4BL who are amplifying demands to defund the police and pass the Breathe Act. As the Georgia senate
election shows, these issues are not only highly resonant, they are the path to victory.
“And so, we take care of each other and love on our people. We organize. We experiment with radical democracy at the grassroots. We will demand accountability for those who stoke the flames of white supremacy, who incited this violence and for the police who stood by,” stated member Causa Justa::Just Cause. We echo this call for accountability for the Capitol insurrection and join The Frontline in demands to impeach, expel, and investigate Trump and all elected officials who enabled white supremactists to attack our democracy. Despite all the grief and pain that was unleashed by the last administration and
its weaponization of white supremacy, we take comfort in knowing that our movements moved mountains. Grassroots movements continue to deliver, and we deserve to be resourced! You have already helped us raise $89,500 toward our $100K for 100 days campaign. Please donate to GGJ today and support us to reach the finish line by January 31!
We are fired up, ready, and committed to ensure that the Biden-Harris administration follows through on their promises to grassroots communities who got them elected. It is our time.
¡La lucha sigue! The struggle continues!
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