Dear People For Supporter,
I hope you were among the more than 100,000 people to tune into our livestream earlier this afternoon … we’re escalating our direct actions and twenty-five of us were arrested today, including People For board members Alyssa Milano and Rabbi David Saperstein.
This was our third civil disobedience action at the White House in recent weeks, and each one continues to grow – both in crowd size as well as the number of leaders risking arrest; we’re demanding that President Biden urge the Senate to “fix or nix” the filibuster in order to pass legislation that would strengthen and protect our sacred right to vote.
We’re going to keep agitating, keep protesting, and, if necessary, keep getting arrested over this issue – because if the President won’t pull out all the stops to protect our freedom to vote, our democracy is in grave peril.
We need your help here. The work that we do here at People For -- including these protests -- is only possible thanks to generous donations from supporters like you.
Just yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D – NY) filed for cloture on a motion to advance the Freedom to Vote Act for debate in the Senate. The Freedom to Vote Act is the single biggest step Congress can take to slap down the Far Right’s new voter suppression laws and enshrine into law protections for Americans’ fundamental right to vote. And it has the support of every Democrat in the Senate, which -- along with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris -- gives us a majority.
Now, in a democracy, majorities should matter. But we expect that Senate Republicans will once again stand united behind Mitch McConnell to block this bill from even being debated, from even being considered with their unprecedented abuse of the filibuster rule.
We can’t, as a movement, allow our democracy to be held hostage. That’s why we’re going to continue protesting in front of the White House and demanding that President Biden step up, take the lead, and do everything he can to push the Senate to remove the filibuster as an obstacle to passing necessary voting rights legislation.
But the reality of our world these days is that this work takes money. Signs cost money. Organizing crowds costs money. Batteries for the megaphones cost money. Citations for breaking the law -- which we’re pretty sure the late Congressman John Lewis would call “good trouble” -- cost money.
We’re grateful for any support you can provide, and we’ll keep fighting for you -- and for a better America.
Let’s go fight — and win.
-- Ben Jealous, President
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