Team,
Too often, those on the frontlines of the fight for economic, racial, and social justice have been relegated to the footnotes of history.
Not in this movement. We are bringing forward the stories of those who went before, and speaking our truth.
Last night, I joined Senator Elizabeth Warren for a rally in Atlanta, Georgia centered on uplifting the role of Black women in the fight for worker’s rights, and honoring the legacy and the tradition of Black women as table shakers, truth tellers, and justice seekers.
We are working in community every day to build a movement for justice and equality centered on those who are too often overlooked or left behind.
We are standing on the shoulders of giants, but we are also writing history in real time. This moment calls all of us to action.
The good news is that — even though this is one of the darkest chapters in the history of our nation — we can draw strength from our truth telling, roll up our sleeves and fix our eyes forward, focused on what is possible.
This is a fight for the soul of our democracy and we can’t afford to be modest in our aspirations. Together we can shift power and center people who have been closest to the pain of draconian policies while putting in place new policies that will serve the people.
We will guarantee access to high-quality, affordable healthcare and ensure that no one has to ration live saving medication or care in order to make ends meet.
We will make housing a human right and address the despicable legacy of redlining and institutionalized racism.
We will decarcerate and transform our criminal INjustice system and introduce solutions centered on restorative justice.
But it’s going to take all of us working together to create this kind of structural and transformative change.
These unprecedented times call for unprecedented leadership, unprecedented organizing, unprecedented mobilizing. We need change and we need it now: Change can’t wait.
In solidarity,
Ayanna Pressley