Dear MoveOn member,

President Biden's newly announced American Jobs Plan would make
transformative investments in millions of jobs, trains and bridges,
replacing lead pipes, expanding high speed broadband, ensuring workers
have the right to join a union, and strengthening the care economy.^1

This plan is a critical piece of Biden's agenda, which is so desperately
needed as our communities are still picking up the pieces from the deadly
COVID-19 pandemic and decades of growing wealth inequality. And like with
any massive legislation that would help working and middle class
people, you'd better believe that powerful interests are already trying to
stop it.

The truth is that Biden and progressives in Congress can't make these
plans a reality without support from people across the country fighting
for change. If we want our elected officials to provide real recovery, we
have to show up. During the two weeks that Congress was home on
recess, MoveOn members and allies joined together at Recovery Recess
events nationwide to demand solutions that meet the scale of the problems
we've been handed—including green jobs oriented to address climate change,
care jobs, healthcare, and all other kinds of support that Americans
desperately need. 

And it was beautiful. We garnered major press coverage, from local papers
of record to national cable news. [ [link removed] ]Watch and share this video montage
highlighting some of the 200+ events that made up Recovery Recess.

[ [link removed] ]Video montage of MoveOn members taking action for Recovery Recess

In the streets and on Zoom, MoveOn members across the country appealed
directly to their members of Congress, urging them to go big and bold by
delivering jobs, care, justice, climate solutions, tribal sovereignty, and
real democracy for all of our people in the next recovery package. 

Here is a taste of the breadth of actions MoveOn members helped make
happen: 

* West Virginians organized “Jammin for Jobs” concerts across the state
to demand passage of the Thrive Act and held local rallies urging
Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Capito to “go big” and support the
THRIVE Act.
* Frontline Indigenous youth from communities impacted by the Dakota
Access, Line 3, KXL, Line 5, and Mountain Valley pipelines ran through
Washington, D.C. to demand Biden #BuildBackFossilFree.

* North Carolinians marched to the offices of Senator Richard Burr and
Representatives Virginia Foxx and Alma Adams urging them to back the
THRIVE Act. Rep. Adams has now officially cosponsored the THRIVE
Agenda!

* Arizonans put in werk at the THRIVE Ball, a live drag show supporting
the THRIVE Act, faith leaders called on Senators Mark Kelly and
Kyrsten Sinema to fight racist voter suppression and pass the For the
People Act, and young people gathered to demand Sen. Sinema tackle the
climate crisis by guaranteeing good jobs for all.

* Montanans organized a car caravan outside Senator Jon Tester’s office
in Missoula where a staff member actually came out and spoke with
them, saying he signed on to cosponsor the bill! 

[ [link removed] ]rotating photos of people in action

With everything our communities have been through in the past year,
individually and collectively, we know that big changes are absolutely
required if we're going to thrive. After the pandemic hit, after the
insurrection, after a renewed uprising against police
violence, through one climate shock after another, it's become even more
clear that we can't just go back to the ways things were—we must build
back better and stronger than ever before.

We can't—and won't—go back to a norm of
crumbling infrastructure, tremendous unemployment, sustained racial and
wealth inequalities, and ecological destruction. We need our government to
go big and tackle these issues all together if we have a shot at
addressing any of them. 

The fight for true recovery for our country is ongoing. This is why MoveOn
members are rising up to seize this once-in-a-generation political moment,
and win big for climate, care, jobs, justice, and democracy.

[ [link removed] ]Click here to watch this video montage of Recovery Recess, and then
pass it along to your friends to keep up the national drumbeat on the call
for Congress to #BuildBackBold.

Thanks for all you do.

–Chloe, David, Gabi, Jensine, and the rest of the team

Sources: 

1. “Here's what's in Biden's infrastructure proposal,” CNN, March 31, 2021
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