Deadline for Democracy
December 7: Shut Down the Capitol
December 7: Shut Down Business as Usual!
In 2020, Democrats took control of the House, Senate and White House promising to push a sweeping package of reforms including massive spending on healthcare, climate justice, accountability for police, Supreme Court reform, housing, federal voting rights legislation, breaking down barriers to organizing unions, and statehood for the people of DC.
For the first 11 months of the year much of that agenda has been stalled by a Republican filibuster in the Senate and inaction among a handful of ‘centrists’ who are more concerned about their donors and special interests than about improving lives for people in our communities.
As 2021 comes to a close the timeline for passing key pillars of the progressive agenda is rapidly waning.
For too much of the Washington, DC establishment, it’s still business as usual with polite lunch meetings, press conferences, and inaction while ‘negotiations’ play out. If we want to win the breakthroughs we need in this moment, we need to disrupt business as usual and open up space for a new kind of politics.
Join Us!
On December 7, as Congress returns to the Capitol for the last week of the 2021 legislative calendar we’re going to take bold direct action to demand that Congress and the administration take action to pass the programs that they promised us and we voted for. We’re taking to the streets to shut down the back-room meetings and political theater that have failed to deliver the progress that our communities need.
We’ll start early in the morning, with street blockades surrounding the Capitol, each lifting up a program that matters to our community that our elected officials have failed to deliver on: Climate Justice, Healthcare, Voting Rights, Immigration Reform, Workers Rights, DC Statehood, and more.
Then at 12 noon, after we’ve shut down business as usual, and opened up space for a new kind of politics, we’ll join allies from a wide range of social movements for a rally at the Capitol to raise up our demands for the bold action our communities need.
Are you ready to take bold direct action to demand that Congress and the administration take action to pass the programs that they promised us and we voted for. Sign up and get involved!