Saturday, June 30, 2018

What happened today

This is what it looked like today, as 30,000 of demonstrators braved 96-degree temperatures to march on the White House and send a crystal clear message: Families Belong Together.

Dear MoveOn member,

After weeks of heartbreaking images, here are some beautiful rays of hope: 
 
 
In Washington, D.C., today, 35,000 demonstrators braved 96-degree temperatures to march on the White House and send a crystal-clear message: Families Belong Together. There were 30,000 participants in New York, 60,000 in Chicago, more than 70,000 in Los Angeles, and huge turnouts from Orlando, Florida, to Austin, Texas, to Boise, Idaho (which is one of the pictures above!). We were everywhere. 
 
Here's the eye-popping map of all the protests, one dot per demonstration, spanning all 50 states, as hundreds of thousands of us gathered in cities from Antler, North Dakota, to Lake Worth, Florida:
 
 
More than 750 cities. One message. This is what it looks like when a nation speaks with one voice. 
 
The past few weeks have been excruciating. We've learned about unspeakable abuses being perpetrated in our name. And at the same time, the Supreme Court upheld the Muslim Ban, which keeps yet more families separated. A Supreme Court retirement means fundamental rights for women and the LGBTQ+ community—among others are now on the line for a generation.
 
And for the thousands of parents and children in cages, not knowing if they'd ever see their family members again, it was, and remains, infinitely worse. 
 
But today was a ray of hope.
 
It was a reminder that, for all the chaos and cruelty of those in power, a massive and growing movement exists in every corner of the nation that still believes in fundamental decency. It was a reminder that—at the ultimate wellspring of power in the American political system—the core values of we, the people blaze, undiminished, indivisible.
 
The horror that so many of us feel about the devastating policies of our government won't go away due to a march. But we are here, we are ready to fight, and we won't go away. This administration hopes to crush our will to resist. Today, we made clear that they will fail. 
 
In the days ahead, we'll be sharing more actions we, together, can take next to build upon this momentum, end these terrorizing and traumatizing policies, hold abusers accountable, and reunite families. Our movement needs to:
  • Keep up the heat on decision-makers everywhere. We'll organize more in-person actions to create pressure to reunite families, close family prisons, and end indefinite detention—working with Indivisible, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and other organizations.
  • Hold corporations accountable for profiting off this system—companies such as Wells Fargo must be held accountable for their role in funding family separation infrastructure.
  • Rein in the excesses of the brutal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who are terrorizing communities and tearing apart families across the country.
And we need to make sure everyone who is eligible registers to vote—a critical way to get involved with all the issues that matter to all our communities and families. 
 
More on all of that soon. Watch your email for opportunities to take action, or join MoveOn's SMS list to get text messages with alerts about clear, impactful actions by texting FAMILY to 668366. 
 
We decided to throw down on this national day of action less than two weeks ago. Our close partner, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, first publicly announced it on Chris Hayes's television show, the next day. In response, communities everywhere—including longtime immigrant leaders who've been at this for years and decades, along with newcomers to action for immigrant rights—have organized one of the biggest protests of the Trump era.
 
All together, more than 180 partner organizations came together to pull this off, including MoveOn, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, the ACLU, faith groups such as Sojourners and the Presbyterian Church, Avaaz, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and a range of labor unions, the YWCA, scores more tremendous allies and partners, and countless local groups in cities large and small, united across lines of ethnicity, race, national origin, and language. 
 
When you feel alone, when it's all too much, remember that what is possible when we come together. That there is power in our numbers.
 
In the decades to come, people will ask themselves and each other what they did to fight the darkness at this moment in history.
 
Today, millions of us summoned a piece of an answer. We were in the streets. And we won't stop until we turn the darkness back. 
 
Thank you for all you do.
 
—Anna, Ben, Karine, Corinne, and the rest of the team
 

P.S. We'll be sharing more photos and videos on social media throughout the days ahead. If you have any, email them to photos@moveon.org or post them on Facebook or Twitter and tag @MoveOn with the hashtag #FamiliesBelongTogether. Here are a few more images from around the country today—including Representative Pramila Jayapal and Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ai-jen Poo, Vanita Gupta, and me at the head of the march from the D.C. rally to the Department of Justice.

Want to support MoveOn's work? We didn't budget for today's million-dollar national protest against children being torn away from their parents on our border, in our name. And, as Elizabeth Warren said in an email to MoveOn members this past week, it feels like "the world is on fire." We still must continue fighting to keep families together AND throw down with partners on an emergency campaign to help save the Supreme Court from a full-on right-wing takeover in light of Justice Kennedy's departure—AND make sure that we don't have to make cuts to our other critical work. To do it, we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

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Want a free #EndFamilyDetention sticker?

We teamed up with Pablo Stanley, an amazing immigrant artist, to create this powerful image—and we just printed it on a big batch of stickers that we are giving away for FREE until we run out of stock.

Dear MoveOn member,

Today, tens of thousands of us will take to the streets from coast to coast—in big cities including Washington, D.C., New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA, as well as in communities like Lawrence, KS and Anchorage, AK and in towns near the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. Over 750 events are scheduled across the country in response to the moral crisis created by the Trump administration's cruel immigration policies.

These events are a clear way that we can make sure that people in power know exactly how we feel about these policies and that this crisis remains in the public eye. Here's another way to keep national focus on this issue: We teamed up with Pablo Stanley, an amazing immigrant artist, to create a powerful image—and we just printed it on a big batch of stickers that we are giving away for FREE until we run out of stock.

Click here or on the image below to get your free sticker—then forward this email to five friends to help get this image everywhere.

Imagine Americans in cities and towns across the country with #EndFamilyDetention stickers plastered on cars, bikes, windows, and more—in every supermarket parking lot, at every traffic light, on every street, as an ongoing reminder of our shared values. Imagine members of Congress, when home in their districts, unable to get across town without seeing this tangible reminder of how many of us are fighting alongside immigrant families.

This image will be visible on posters at marches around the country today, and we projected it onto the side of a building near the National Mall in Washington, D.C., yesterday. Now, you can bring it to your community. Order your sticker now and get it for FREE, no strings attached—before we run out. And share this offer with friends, neighbors, and family.

Thanks for all you do.

–Maria, Kelly, Ben, Milan, and the rest of the team

P.S. Last night, we joined with other groups in Washington, D.C. to project this powerful image on the Newseum to kick off the weekend of action. Check out the photo below, and don't forget to order your free #EndFamilyDetention sticker right now.

Projection on newseum

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Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

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Friday, June 29, 2018

Your Families Belong Together event is tomorrow!

A few final reminders for your Families Belong Together event tomorrow

Dear Eddie,

Thanks so much for signing up to attend a Families Belong Together event tomorrow! Your participation will help amplify our national demand that the Trump administration end its cruel practices that are punishing children and families. There are more than 750 events around the country, and we expect tens of thousands of folks in the streets!

Here are the details for the event you signed up for:

What: Families Belong Together: Freedom for Immigrants
When: TOMORROW, Saturday, June 30, 11:00 AM
Where: City Hall - 200 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Your Event Dashboard, where you can contact your host, invite friends, and more:
http://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together_attend1/tools/?t=14&akid=210393%2E10220574%2E1GdfMM

Here are a few tips to keep in mind as you get ready to ensure you have a great experience and make the biggest impact:

  • Wear white! Participants across the country will be wearing white to create a compelling, memorable visual that can be captured easily by press cameras. And wearing white has a long tradition through movements for racial and social justice—and has been embraced by many activists on both sides of the border.
  • Prepare for the heat. It's summer! There is a serious heatwave in many parts of the country. Bring water. Bring extra water! Wear sunscreen. Bring a hat. Keep yourself comfortable while speaking out.
  • Amplify your impact via social media! Follow these easy instructions on broadcasting from the event using Facebook Live, and post photos on social media using the hashtag #FamiliesBelongTogether and tagging @MoveOn. (Using the same hashtag helps folks all across the country track the work you are doing.) After the event, send us the link to your Facebook Live videos using this form. When shooting video or taking photos, turn your camera horizontally, as this will allow the image to appear bigger on mobile phones. 
  • Invite your friends. The more people who show up tomorrow, the more we can build on our momentum and force a change in these cruel policies. Call friends and family and ask them to come along.
  • Check out the event materials. Go to the event dashboard to print signs, learn some chants, and read messaging guidance on the family separation fight.

After the dizzying and terrifying news week—Supreme Court decisions that undermined the rights of voters, Muslims, and workers; a Supreme Court vacancy that could amount to a generational attack on reproductive justice and LGBTQ equality; and the senseless gun violence in Annapolis yesterday—we know that we are ready to take to the streets! Tomorrow's actions—focused on the moral crisis manufactured by the Trump administration's inhumane policies—are a chance to show the White House, the nation, and the world that we are rising up for justice and compassion and against senseless, terrifying cruelty.

We appreciate your commitment to engage in nonviolent, peaceful action, to act lawfully, and to strive to de-escalate any potential confrontations with those who may disagree with our values. Be sure to review these de-escalation tips ahead of time.

Thanks for all you do.

–Emma, David, Jenn, Erica, and the rest of the team

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Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

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The single largest event in our 20 year history

"Anna, we need to be in the streets." That's what Rep. Pramila Jayapal—a powerhouse member of Congress who inspires me daily—said when she called me late on Saturday night 13 days ago, just as news was catching that thousands of kids were separated from their families in a terrifying, brutal choice by the Trump administration.

Dear MoveOn member,

"Anna, we need to be in the streets."

That's what Rep. Pramila Jayapal—a powerhouse member of Congress who inspires me daily—said when she called me early on a Saturday morning 13 days ago, just as news was surging about thousands of kids being separated from their families due to a cruel and inhumane choice by the Trump administration.

We were both clear that this was a historic moment—that we'd look back and ask ourselves if we'd done everything we could. And that one thing that we urgently needed was a big, visible presence in D.C. and around the country.

I was glued to my phone all weekend with Pramila, Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and other close partners. Then I made a big decision: MoveOn needed to commit, with our partners, to helping make this happen—and fast. I called and texted the MoveOn team, pulled them from their Sunday plans, and peeled my own kids off my pant legs. We worked around the clock, and on Monday, we announced the Families Belong Together actions on June 30.

And the response so far? It's been breathtaking.

Literally overnight, hundreds of events sprung up across the country. And the sign-up numbers have continued to climb: More than 750 events. Hundreds of thousands of people committed to participating. Not only in the biggest cities, where tens of thousands may turn out—but there are hundreds expected too in communities like Lubbock, TX, and Wichita, KS. And a flagship event in D.C. that will be moving and inspiring.

This may well turn out to be the single largest day of action that MoveOn has ever produced. And—when we count up the organizers, Jumbotrons, security, staging, signage, online ads, livestreaming, airplane tickets, porta potties, and staff costs—we expect this Saturday's events to cost $1.1 million.

Needless to say, we didn't budget for a million-dollar national protest against children being torn away from their parents on our border, in our name. And, as Elizabeth Warren said in an email to MoveOn members this week, it feels like "the world is on fire." We still have to do all of this AND throw down with partners on an emergency campaign to help save the Supreme Court from a full-on right-wing takeover in light of Justice Kennedy's departure—AND make sure that we don't have to make cuts to our other critical work.

There is so much we have to do right now. And the stakes are so high. Which is why I'm asking:

Can you pitch in $3 to help produce this massive D.C. event and support 750+ events nationwide—without pulling back on any of our other critical work?

I'm so glad for that Saturday morning call from a fellow organizer who's now leading from a seat in Congress. We took a huge leap of faith going big in this historic moment. Seeing the incredible results of our organizing so far, I'm so glad we did.

And the situation remains urgent. Forty-eight hours after Trump's executive order, a chilling CNN headline read: "children still screaming in border centers." Trump has not fixed the humanitarian crisis he created. Despite a heartening preliminary ruling from one court, there are still thousands of children separated from their families, some in cages, and with no credible plans for reunification.

Now, this weekend, it's time to take our energy and activism to the streets with more than 750 events across the country. Will you help make that possible?

Yes, I'll chip in $3 to help us take our energy and activism to the streets!

Over the years, MoveOn members have stepped up in big moments like this one.

We've stepped up in huge ways here: Together, we've funded more than $350,000 in direct relief to help with legal aid for children separated from their families. More than 500,000 of us have signed petitions, including one from Natalie Portman, calling on the Trump administration to end family separation. And we won't stop.

We won't stop until families are reunited. The Trump administration must permanently end family separation and immediately reunify those that have been separated.

We won't stop until family detention is ended. Children and families deserve due process, not indefinite imprisonment. Children do not belong in baby cages and internment-like camps. Family incarceration is not the solution to family separation.

And we won't stop until "Zero Tolerance"—which we should really be calling "Zero Humanity"—is in the dustbin of history. That's the policy that created this crisis and chaos to begin with. Parents should not be criminally prosecuted for doing what all parents do, which is bring their children to safety. This horrible nightmare for families will only end only when Trump permanently stops his 100% prosecution policy.

Eddie: Our events across the country and in Washington, D.C. will cost more than $1 million, and I need your help to make sure they're a huge success without pulling resources from our other critical work. Can you help out?

Click here to chip in $3—or whatever you can.

Thanks for all you do.

–Anna

P.S. I hope you'll come out this weekend. You can find an event near you and RSVP here.

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Thanks for the RSVP! (Families Belong Together event on June 30)

Hi Eddie, 

Thank you for registering to attend an event to end Donald Trump's policy of separating immigrant families at the border. 

Here are the details for the event you signed up for on June 30—

City Hall
200 N Spring St
Los Angeles 90012-4801

To access details about the event you signed up for, and to invite friends to join you, find your event here: https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together_attend1/19831/attend/?akid=a267184972.10220574.-_zxsA&aktmid=tm6952351.I_3XI_&t=1&source=conf

We appreciate your commitment to engage in non-violent, peaceful action, to act lawfully, and to strive to de-escalate any potential confrontations with those who may disagree with our values.

Thanks for all you do.

–Emma and the MoveOn event team 


This Saturday

We have two sons. Sebastian is 3, Francisco just 5 months old. I cannot imagine the emotional trauma my boys would experience if they were to be separated from Vanessa and me. But that's what's happening at our border
Dear Eddie,
 
We have two sons. Sebastian is 3, Francisco just 5 months old. I cannot imagine the emotional trauma my boys would experience if they were to be separated from Vanessa and me. But that's what's happening at our border—forced family separations, denial of due process, imprisonment of kids and parents. To be silent while this takes place in our country is to be an accomplice.
 
I'm headed to Washington, D.C., this Saturday, June 30, to join tens of thousands of people for the Families Belong Together march. It's one of more than 700 events around the country taking place where, together, we will raise our voices loud and clear and call for an end to family separations and the suspension of due process at the border.
 
Click here to find the event closest to you—and please, please, please invite five friends to join in as well, by forwarding this email to them and posting about this day of action on Facebook or Twitter. Grab your neighbors, your extended family, and everyone you see and bring them along on Saturday.
 
I am devastated by the news that keeps coming out. I'm heartbroken that this is being done by our government intentionally and in our name. This is a horrific strategy to terrorize families and criminalize immigrants, instigated by the same people who have ended protected status for people from countries wrecked by natural and political disasters. They have moved to ban Muslims from entering our country. They have said that domestic abuse isn't a reason to grant asylum. 
 
But even as we experience this heartache, I am also blown away by how we have come together at this moment. We are showing up to support these families by the thousands.  
 
Please RSVP to join me on Saturday in Washington, D.C., or to join the event closest to you—and then tell everyone you know to take part. We all need to be there so spread the word, post about this day of action on Facebook and tweet about it—and share this link: familiesbelongtogether.org, where 700+ events are listed. There's one virtually everywhere: in all 50 states, D.C., my beloved Puerto Rico, and more than 350 congressional districts! 
 
People of good conscience from across the country and across the political spectrum agree on this: Families belong together. We've got to make this clear to our government: Reunite families. Close family prison camps. And hold the abusers accountable.
 
 
Siempre,
 
—Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
P.S. Here's a graphic that you can share on Facebook or on Twitter to raise awareness of the Families Belong Together events happening this Saturday. Please do share it!
 
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Families Belong Together

 


Wednesday, June 27, 2018

"Heartbroken" doesn't even begin to describe this

This is a frightening and devastating moment. But I'm still inspired. And I have hope. I'm inspired because I see hundreds of thousands of Americans taking action and proclaiming that families belong together.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

History's darkest moments have often been marked by the creation of camps built to house "undesirables," and now, it's happening again—in our country, in our lifetime, and in full view of the world.

I believe that what this administration is doing at the border is a "crime against humanity," and it is on us to stop it. And I'm proud to stand with MoveOn, which is organizing a huge Day of Action—the biggest in its nearly 20-year history.

And now, MoveOn needs to pull that all off AND launch an emergency campaign to help save the Supreme Court from a full-on right-wing takeover in light of Justice Kennedy's departure in the coming days and weeks.

For this weekend's event alone, MoveOn is going to need security, staging, signage, hundreds of volunteer marshals, Jumbotrons, top-level video technology, additional staff—and that's just in Washington, D.C. MoveOn is also pouring time, technology, and resources into promoting 600+ events across the country, recruiting tens of thousands of people to attend, training volunteers, and more. In total, Saturday's events are expected to cost $1.1 million.

Will you contribute $3 to MoveOn today to help it meet this monumental moment and support the more than 600+ urgently needed Families Belong Together events this Saturday?

I'm shattered by every image, audio clip, and horrific story coming from the camps—let's be honest, prisons—where immigrant children are being kept, and by the devastatingly callous response from the White House.  

And the horrible fact is that, as you read this message, more than 2,000 families are still separated, Eddie. Yesterday we learned that contrary to Donald Trump's executive order, the administration will NOT be reuniting these children with their families until their parents drop their asylum cases and agree to be deported.1 

That's right, this administration—from the party of family values—is now using children as hostages in an effort to punish their parents. 

And they are laughing at us as we fight back. Earlier this week, during a speech at the White House, Jeff Sessions mocked activists like you and me and joked—to raucous applause—about separating parents from their children.2

I think we should show Mr. Sessions exactly who it is he's dealing with, don't you?  

That's why this weekend, MoveOn members are gathering in cities across America to take part in more than 600 Families Belong Together events and march to demand that these families be reunited—immediately—and that children not be used as pawns in this administration's disgusting games.

And just so there's no confusion: Children and parents must not to be reunited, only to be then held in prison camps. Media attention has started to shift away from this critical issue, so continuing to shine a spotlight on this crisis is incredibly important, which is why I will continue to speak out, and why I hope that you will, too.

Will you contribute $3, or whatever you can afford, to help pull off the single largest day of action MoveOn has organized in its 20-year history? MoveOn expects to spend $1.1 million to support more than 600 urgently needed Families Belong Together events this Saturday, including a massive gathering in Washington, D.C., within earshot of the White House.

This is a frightening and devastating moment. But I'm still inspired. And I have hope. I'm inspired because I see hundreds of thousands of Americans taking action and proclaiming that families belong together.

I see footage of faith leaders, doctors, nurses, and folks who want to help heading to the border. I see business owners, cultural leaders, and civic organizations using their voices and platforms to resist and encourage others to do the same.

And I see communities across our country preparing to take to the streets in more than 600 cities this Saturday, June 30, to take part in Families Belong Together rallies, in what will be one of the largest days of action since the Women's March in January, 2017.

I'm grateful to MoveOn members, because you—along with the National Domestic Workers Alliance and hundreds of other partners—are helping to create and support the 600+ events across the country, which will follow in the footsteps of the Women's March and March for Our Lives and support the flagship rally in Washington, D.C., where tens of thousands will gather within earshot of the White House

I know that this is an enormous undertaking—but it is an essential one. It's what's required in this monumental moral, historic, and political moment—which is why I have a simple request for you:

Will you contribute $3 to MoveOn today to help it meet this monumental moment and realize the 600+, urgently needed Families Belong Together events this Saturday? If we can pull this off, it will send a clear message that will force change to happen.

Thanks for all you do.

–Alyssa Milano

Sources: 

1. Tweet from Senator Dianne Feinstein, June 26, 2018
 
2. Tweet from Robert Maguire, June 26, 2018 

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

The world is on fire

I'm busy these days, and that's because the world is on fire. Where to start? There's Donald Trump's humanitarian crisis at the border. There's Trump's corrupt Cabinet. There's the Republican Congress, still trying to rip people's health care away.

Dear MoveOn member,

I'm busy these days, and that's because the world is on fire. Where to start?

There's Donald Trump's humanitarian crisis at the border. There's Trump's corrupt Cabinet. There's the Republican Congress, still trying to rip people's health care away.

So I'm busy fighting like hell for the families separated by Trump, and I'm busy working my heart out to help elect Democrats—because the only way to slam the brakes on Trump's agenda is for Democrats to take back the House and the Senate.

The days blur together, and I'm a little short on sleep. But whenever I need a jolt of energy to keep me going, I think about everyone across the country who's with me in this fight.

It's going to take all of us working together, as a team, to put out the flames.

If we all suit up and fight back, Democrats can win big in November. And I'm talking BIG.

I'm up for re-election in November. Powerful special interests will pour millions of dollars into nasty ads trying to tear me down. We'll win only if we build the biggest grassroots army that Massachusetts has ever seen.

But we can't win only in Massachusetts—the stakes are too high, and our national emergency is too dire. With your support and the hard work of MoveOn, we'll invest in Democrats up and down the ballot to help deliver a blue wave that'll wash Trump-enabling Republicans out of power across the country.

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever makes sense for you right now, to my campaign and MoveOn's efforts to elect progressives this fall and help make sure that we win this fight.

(As an added bonus, when you chip in to my campaign through MoveOn, you'll also be entered to win an all-expenses-paid trip to meet with me one-on-one on the campaign trail or in Washington, D.C.!)

You've heard the pundits say that we have a fighting chance of taking back the House. But here's what's really exciting (and I get up on my tiptoes just thinking about it): We could take back the Senate, too.

A Democratic Senate would stop rubber-stamping Trump's unqualified nominees and stop stacking the courts with judges who work for giant corporations, not the American people.

The path to take back the Senate is a lot narrower, and I'll be honest, Eddie: It's going to be an uphill slog.

But it's possible. The numbers could work—but only if our terrific Democratic candidates have the resources to go up against big Republican Super PACs, the Wall Street bankers, and all of the powerful special interests whose bottom line depends on keeping Republicans in power.

In short, Eddie? It's going to take a massive movement. And I'm fighting like hell for it. Will you join me? When you chip in, you'll be entered in a contest to fly out and meet me, one-on-one.

Click here to chip in $3 to support our re-election campaign and MoveOn's efforts to shore up progressive Democrats in tough races across the country. You'll also be entered to win a trip to meet me, one-on-one.

We don't have big corporate special interests on our side like the Republicans do, but we have you, Eddie—and with you in the fight, I like our chances.

Thanks for all you do.

–Elizabeth Warren

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Monday, June 25, 2018

Join me this Saturday because families belong together

Seeing thousands of immigrant families torn apart, I am devastated and beyond furious. Join me on June 30 as we rally across the country to demand an end to this disgusting family separation policy. Seeing thousands of immigrant families torn apart, I am devastated and beyond furious. Join me on June 30 as we rally across the country to demand an end to this disgusting family separation policy.

Dear MoveOn member,

Seeing thousands of immigrant families torn apart, I am devastated and beyond furious.

Join me on June 30 in Washington, D.C., or in a city near you to demand an end to this disgusting family separation policy.

A new Trump administration policy has been separating children—including babies younger than a year old—from their parents at our border, and detaining them in cages and tent cities. It is cruel and appalling, and it is our moral obligation to demand that it stops.

Even now that Trump is feeling pressure, he's not solving anything, as there is no plan to reunite the thousands of kids who have already been taken from their parents. And instead of stopping the imprisoning of children, he's proposing locking kids up with their families in cages for indefinite spans of time. I have visited the inside of a "detention" center, and make no mistake, they are prisons in which families and children are treated like criminals for fleeing life-threatening situations and seeking asylum.

I just gave birth to my first child four weeks ago. When I hold him in my arms, my heart breaks with the weight of my love for him, and I can't help but imagine the devastation these parents and their terrified children are going through. As a parent, I can't help but feel a responsibility to speak out against this horrifying situation. As an American, I know it is my duty to condemn these dehumanizing actions and demand that this never happen in our country, on our watch.

Many of us feel this pain and call to action so deeply—which is why hundreds of thousands of us are preparing to take to the streets at more than 600 events around the country next weekend to declare Families Belong Together.

Join me and hundreds of thousands of people who have committed to showing up in Washington, D.C., and in cities around the country on June 30 to demand that the Trump administration keep families together and reunite the thousands of families it has already ripped apart.

Have you ever read about a moment of crisis in history and wondered how people could let something so evil happen? This is one of those moments. We have to speak up. The Trump administration chooses to brutally punish families like this. It's immoral, it's wrong, and we can force them to stop.

We're seeing that our outrage is working. But this crisis is far from over. Now's the time to declare that these brutal policies must end, families must be treated with dignity, and the monsters who created these policies deserve to be held accountable.

Families come to the U.S. seeking a better life than was possible for them in the country they came from. Can you imagine living in such a dangerous and untenable situation, that your best option is to subject your family to a harrowing and life-threatening journey, only to arrive in a new country and have your child ripped from your arms with no indication of whether you'll ever see them again? Can you imagine your terrified and confused child imprisoned by themselves?

MoveOn, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the ACLU, and others, are calling for June 30 to be a Families Belong Together national day of action. More and more Americans are mobilizing, and we need you to join us.

Sign up now to attend a rally in Washington, D.C., near the White House or in a city near you on June 30, and then ask your friends and family to attend with you to demand an end to family separation.

In solidarity,

—America Ferrera

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

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Have a petition idea for Inwood?

Petitions are powerful. Start a petition today to make your voice heard.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

I didn't know the power of petitions until I started creating them. They have helped me build real-world people power that helped save a few local families from being broken apart by Trump's deportation machine.

Click here to create your own petition to build power and support an issue, a person, or a group of people you care about in Inwood, or anywhere else in the country.

Here's one quick story:

We had 2 1/2 days. On a cold Saturday in November, 2017, we were asked to help a member of our community, Miriam Martinez-Lemus, avoid deportation before she was to board a plane for Guatemala and leave her daughter—who has diabetes and is a citizen of the United States—to fend for herself. Miriam's daughter's doctors said the medical system in Guatemala was not equipped to care for a child with complicated juvenile diabetes.

We immediately launched a MoveOn petition—signed by more than 10,000 MoveOn members like you—that lifted up Miriam's story, attracted media attention, and helped us mobilize dozens of people to a local demonstration and a vigil, which were also covered by local media.

And we won. The MoveOn petition effectively helped build the people power we needed to keep Miriam where she belonged—with her family.

By using MoveOn's user-friendly petition tools, you can create your very own petition. 

Do you have any ideas for a petition for Inwood or nationwide that could build power on an issue you care about? Click here to start building power with your petition.

I know from personal experience that the MoveOn team will be there to support you, from helping build support for your petition by connecting you to other MoveOn members to reimbursing you for printing costs to deliver your petition in person—one of the best ways to get your message heard and make an impact. 

Will you start a petition right now on an issue that you're passionate about that affects your community, or even the entire nation?

Thanks for all you do.

–Charla Nich, petition creator and MoveOn member

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

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Saturday, June 23, 2018

SIGN: Stephen Miller must be fired for separating children from families

Stephen Miller has been identified by the press as the senior White House official behind Trump's "zero tolerance" policy

Demand the White House fire Stephen Miller for his cruel, racist policies which have caused immeasurable trauma to thousands of children and their families.

Children do not belong in cages, nor should they be separated from their families. Senior White House Policy Advisor Stephen Miller should be fired immediately for creating the inhumane and blatantly racist policy to take away children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Dear MoveOn member,

Senior White House official Stephen Miller is the engineer of the "zero tolerance" policy that's tearing families apart. He should be fired immediately.1

Although public pressure has forced Trump to modify the policy for now, families—including children—can be indefinitely detained in what are essentially prisons. There are also no guarantees that the families torn apart will ever be reunited.2

Stephen Miller's policies are so objectionable that a Republican member of Congress said, "the president should fire Stephen Miller now. This is a human rights mess. It is on the president to clean it up and fire the people responsible for making it."3

Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal separately said of Miller, "I don't think that most Americans understand that a 33-year-old individual with connections to white supremacists is actually crafting policies that are going to literally destroy our country and what we stand for."4

Sign the petition and tell the White House to fire Stephen Miller for his disastrous and inhumane policy of separating children from parents at the border.

Recently, The New York Times reported that "Mr. Miller was instrumental in Mr. Trump's decision to ratchet up the zero tolerance policy."5 Last year, The Guardian reported Stephen Miller was also the policy architect behind the Muslim travel ban.The New Yorker reported that he was responsible for ending temporary protected status for Haitian, Salvadoran, and Honduran immigrants already living in the U.S.7

Miller's policies look like a page out of the white nationalist playbook—and that's because Miller has long identified with members of that movement. He even helped white nationalist Richard Spencer raise money for an immigration debate at Duke University.8

Stephen Miller's white nationalist policies have no place in America—let alone the White House. Children don't belong in cages, and families belong together.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thank you!

–Matt Hildreth, America's Voice

Sources:

1. "The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants," The Atlantic, June 19, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41796?t=18&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl

2. "Trump's order could mean families will be together in detention purgatory indefinitely. But where will they stay?" NBC News, June 21, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/42134?t=20&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl

3. "White House aide Miller targeted in backlash over family separations," Politico, June 21, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/42135?t=22&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl

4. Ibid.

5. "How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families," The New York Times, June 16, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41797?t=24&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl

6. "Meet Stephen Miller, architect of first travel ban, whose words may haunt him," The Guardian, March 15, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/41798?t=26&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl

7. "The Battle Inside the Trump Administration Over T.P.S.," The New Yorker, May 11, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41799?t=28&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl

8. "Stephen Miller's brash path from Duke campus to Trump White House," The Raleigh News & Observer, August 2, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/41800?t=30&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

June 30: Huge protests are ON

Thanks to powerful public pressure, Trump's administration has been forced to shift its outrageous treatment of immigrant children. We have momentum—but we're far from done.

Dear MoveOn member,

Thanks to powerful public pressure, the Trump administration has been forced to shift its outrageous treatment of immigrant children. We have momentum—but we're far from done.

The executive order that Donald Trump signed today is not the solution. It allows the indefinite incarceration of immigrant families in federal prisons, and there is still no plan to reunify the thousands of families that have been forcibly separated. Which is why we must continue to stand together at hundreds of events nationwide on Saturday, June 30, to say that families belong together—and freeClick here to join the June 30 event near you to Keep Families Together and free and reject Trump's brutal policies.

The last week has been full of shocking and heartbreaking stories: Kids torn from breastfeeding moms.1 Leaked audio of cries and shrieks from terrified children.2 Images of kids in cages.3 Reports of children being injected with antipsychotic drugs against their will.3 The defiance of Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The negligence of the Republican Congress. All during a week when the Trump administration withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council.4

In the face of this horror, MoveOn members and many others stood tall and said: We have to be better than this. So when Representative Pramila Jayapal announced on Monday night that she was working with MoveOn, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and other partners on a massive mobilization on June 30, MoveOn members responded in huge numbers: More than 150,000 people signed up for more than 400 events within 36 hours.

Because we raised our collective voice, Trump has been forced to backtrack. One day after saying that this policy—which he and his administration created—was essential, he's beginning to retreat.5 But let's be clear: Trump's announcement today is not solving a crisis. Instead, it appears that he wants to modify his policy to detain infants, toddlers, and other children with their parents—indefinitely, without due process. And many other children are still separated from their parents with no plans to reunite them. 

Again: Our national outrage has led to Trump and Nielsen backpedalling. Republicans are running scared from the moral crisis they manufactured. Which is why we're doubling down as we build toward the national mobilization on June 30.

Can you join us on June 30? Click here to search more than 400 events around the country!

Together, we can win freedom and reunification for children and families—which is why we need to go full speed ahead over the next 10 days toward June 30 as we demand that Trump reunite families, close down prisons for these children and their families, and fire Kirstjen Nielsen, White House adviser Stephen Miller, and every other architect of this inhumane policy.

Thanks for all you do.

—Anna, Ben, Rahna, David, and the rest of the team

Sources:  

1. "She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center," CNN, June 14, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41122?t=16&akid=209847%2E10220574%2EoqLI_1

2. "Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border," ProPublica, June 18, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41282?t=18&akid=209847%2E10220574%2EoqLI_1

3. "Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims," Reveal News, June 20, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41283?t=20&akid=209847%2E10220574%2EoqLI_1

4. "US leaving UN Human Rights Council -- 'a cesspool of political bias,'" CNN, June 20, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41284?t=22&akid=209847%2E10220574%2EoqLI_1

5. "Trump Retreats on Separating Families, Signing Order to Detain Them Together," New York Times, June 20, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41323?t=24&akid=209847%2E10220574%2EoqLI_1

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

FW: Sign my petition to stop family separation?

Hi Eddie, I just wanted to make sure you saw my message. I've been heartbroken by recent news stories of children being torn away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. One story described a mother whose baby girl was yanked from her arms while she was breastfeeding her.

Hi Eddie—I just wanted to make sure you saw my message.

–Natalie Portman


Dear Eddie,

I've been heartbroken by recent news stories of children being torn away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

If you've been heartbroken too, then will you click here now to add your name to my short and simple petition to Congress and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen? It says: "Stop tearing children away from their parents. Families belong together."

One story described a mother whose baby girl was yanked from her arms while she was breastfeeding her.1 The mother cried out and tried to hang on to her child as government agents forcibly separated them.

Hundreds of other families have been torn apart since the Trump administration enacted this brutal new policy.2

This shockingly cruel, traumatic, and inhumane practice has no place in our country. It must be stopped immediately, and without holding these children hostage to pass other anti-immigrant policies.

Will you add your name to this short and simple petition? It says:

Stop tearing children away from their parents. Families belong together.

Click here to sign the petition, and then pass it along to your friends and family.

We must speak loudly enough, and in large enough numbers, that the media stays focused on this story. Together, we can make sure that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, other members of the Trump administration, and every member of Congress have no choice but to stop separating families.

All of us are someone's child. Many of us are mothers and fathers, sisters, brothers, grandparents; we're aunts and uncles; we're friends and neighbors who watch out for each other's children.

Keeping children with their mothers and broader families is something that should transcend party, geography, ideology, and other lines that often divide us.

No politician should be able to hide from the images and stories of families being separated—and of children sleeping on floors in former Walmarts and kept in prisons, locked in what can only be described as cages. We must speak out and demand that this cruel treatment of children and families stop.

Will you click here to add your name and declare that children and their families belong together? The petition says: "Stop tearing children away from their parents. Families belong together."

Let's keep raising our voices to stop this tragedy—and show love and support for these children and their families.

–Natalie Portman

Sources:

1. "She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center," CNN, June 14, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41122?t=6&akid=209755%2E10220574%2Ecro1J_

2. "The Trump administration's separation of families at the border, explained," Vox, June 11, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41123?t=8&akid=209755%2E10220574%2Ecro1J_


Monday, June 18, 2018

Here’s how you can help (family separation crisis)

The Trump administration is moving full speed ahead to create a prison camp outside El Paso, TX, for the immigrant children our government is stealing away from their parents after families cross the border to seek asylum.

Dear MoveOn member,

The Trump administration is moving full speed ahead to create a prison camp outside El Paso, TX, for the immigrant children our government is stealing away from their parents after families cross the border to seek asylum.1

Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions instituted the policy of family separation in May, the number of children separated from their parents is surging, with estimates as high as 2,000, including a baby torn away from her mother's breasts.2,3 Some of the mothers are being told that their families "do not exist anymore" and that they will "never see their children again."4

The network of pro bono lawyers fighting for these families in the courts and getting their stories to the media urgently needs more resources to scale up their work. And that's why I want to ask you, Eddie, to make a tax-deductible donation to the Texas Civil Rights Project, a group of lawyers and advocates on the front lines of the family separation crisis.

Click here now to make a tax-deductible gift to the Texas Civil Rights Project, and 100% of your donation will immediately go to the organization.

It was from an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, Natalia Cornelio, that we learned on CNN last week about the story of the woman from Honduras who had her baby torn away from her while breastfeeding.5

Under current policies, the government is not required to provide immigrants, even children, pursuing asylum or facing deportation with legal representation. Children as young as three are being forced to appear before judges without a lawyer.6

These families need legal help right now. Will you make a tax-deductible gift to the Texas Civil Rights Project? Just click here now, and 100% of your donation will go to the organization.

Every day, more and more children are being ripped away from their parents, and the stories we're hearing just keep getting worse. Children confined in dog kennel-like cages. Parents left without any information about their children's whereabouts week after week. Border agents losing track of which child belongs to which parent.

This is a moral emergency, and we're going all out to pressure Congress and the Trump administration to rescind this heinous policy. 

But right now the most pressing, urgent need is to help the children and parents trapped in Trump's horrifying family separation maze. Will you make a tax-deductible donation to the Texas Civil Rights Project to help defend these families?

Yes, I'll make a tax-deductible donation to the Texas Civil Rights Project right now.

MoveOn members' time, energy, and donations power all our advocacy and electoral work together—and in some moments of crisis, we also come together as a community to provide direct relief to people in harm's way.

MoveOn members have given millions of dollars directly to grassroots relief organizations over the years, including after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; after Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, Maria, and Harvey; to help rebuild Black churches after racially motivated arsons; and many other moments.

This is one of those moments where we can provide important support for people in crisis—even as we continue our work to address root causes.

Thanks for all you do.

–Anna, Eric, Anne, Reggie, and the rest of the team

P.S. MoveOn members are doing everything we can to stand up in this horrifying moment. Our staff worked throughout the weekend with a wide range of partner organizations to begin planning a major protest in Washington (we'll keep you updated and will announce it as soon as details are ready), as well as in-person actions people around the country can attend. We're collecting bedtime songs, which we'll do our very best to play for children in detention centers and highlight in the media. And we're making digital ads to make sure members of Congress hear our anguish and our demand to stop separating children from their parents—and holding those kids hostage to pass other anti-immigrant legislation. Right now, we're coming together to offer direct support for the children experiencing this trauma—and in the coming days, we'll give you more opportunities to advocate and organize to stop this moral travesty.

Click here to make a tax-deductible donation directly to the Texas Civil Rights Project. 

Sources:

1. "U.S. to house migrant children in tents outside El Paso as government takes more into custody," The Washington Post, June 14, 2018
 
2. "DHS reports about 2,000 minors separated from families," The Washington Post, June 15, 2018
 
3. "She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center," CNN, June 14, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41122?t=10&akid=209660%2E10220574%2E98q4hB
 
4. "The Trump administration's separation of families at the border, explained," Vox, June 15, 2018
 
5. "She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center," CNN, June 14, 2018
 
6. "Can a 3-year-old represent herself in immigration court? Judge in Seattle case thinks so," The Seattle Times, March 4, 2016

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Sign my petition to stop family separation?

I've been heartbroken by recent news stories of children being torn away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. One story described a mother whose baby girl was yanked from her arms while she was breastfeeding her.

Dear Eddie,

I've been heartbroken by recent news stories of children being torn away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

If you've been heartbroken too, then will you click here now to add your name to my short and simple petition to Congress and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen? It says: "Stop tearing children away from their parents. Families belong together."

One story described a mother whose baby girl was yanked from her arms while she was breastfeeding her.1 The mother cried out and tried to hang on to her child as government agents forcibly separated them.

Hundreds of other families have been torn apart since the Trump administration enacted this brutal new policy.2

This shockingly cruel, traumatic, and inhumane practice has no place in our country. It must be stopped immediately, and without holding these children hostage to pass other anti-immigrant policies.

Will you add your name to this short and simple petition? It says:

Stop tearing children away from their parents. Families belong together.

Click here to sign the petition, and then pass it along to your friends and family.

We must speak loudly enough, and in large enough numbers, that the media stays focused on this story. Together, we can make sure that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, other members of the Trump administration, and every member of Congress have no choice but to stop separating families.

All of us are someone's child. Many of us are mothers and fathers, sisters, brothers, grandparents; we're aunts and uncles; we're friends and neighbors who watch out for each other's children.

Keeping children with their mothers and broader families is something that should transcend party, geography, ideology, and other lines that often divide us.

No politician should be able to hide from the images and stories of families being separated—and of children sleeping on floors in former Walmarts and kept in prisons, locked in what can only be described as cages. We must speak out and demand that this cruel treatment of children and families stop.

Will you click here to add your name and declare that children and their families belong together? The petition says: "Stop tearing children away from their parents. Families belong together."

Let's keep raising our voices to stop this tragedy—and show love and support for these children and their families.

—Natalie Portman

Sources:

1. "She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center," CNN, June 14, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41122?t=18&akid=209579%2E10220574%2EgDt7f_

2. "The Trump administration's separation of families at the border, explained," Vox, June 11, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41123?t=20&akid=209579%2E10220574%2EgDt7f_

Want to support MoveOn's work on family separation? Senator Jeff Merkley says, "If you believe that separating children from their families is wrong—and that it's got to stop—then will you chip in monthly to help MoveOn fuel their campaign against this moral outrage, and build the political power to stop this and other horrific policies targeting immigrant families?"

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

Contributions to MoveOn.org Civic Action are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. This email was sent to Eddie Alfaro on June 17th, 2018. To change your email address or update your contact info, click here. To remove yourself from this list, click here.

Friday, June 15, 2018

Will you join Jaden, Lashelle, Mindy, and Don?

We can end GOP control of the House together. Apply today to join the Resist & Win program.

Dear MoveOn member,

It's been a tough week—knowing that more kids are being separated from their parents and put in cages, and that our country is turning away "[the] tired, [the] poor, [the] huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
 
What is lifting my spirits this morning are the many rallies and marches around the country this week, and reading the words of fellow MoveOn members ready to get involved in the Resist & Win program to end GOP control of the House and build the lasting progressive power that we need to fulfill the promise of this nation that we have yet to fully achieve for all of us—white, Black, brown, and everyone.

I wanted to share some of these motivating stories and invite you to join Jaden, Lashelle, Mindy, and Don as MoveOn Resist & Win Leaders to end GOP control of the House and build a progressive future for us all.

We still have 400 spots available, and one of them has your name on it! We've extended the deadline to Friday, June 22, but applications are accepted on a rolling basis so apply for your spot today!

"I am tired of the injustice that has been brewing in this country. As a young person I see the movement being led by people such as David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez and I am inspired. I hope with my and others' help, even right-wing towns like mine can be changed for the better … This is not a fight we can expect others to win for us." –Jaden M., Twain Harte, CA
 
"I want to help motivate and inspire people to get engaged in the political process." –Lashelle S., Houston, TX
 
"As a teacher, I am tired of politicians making the wrong decisions for my students. Living where I do, the tide is turning, and my district is on the list of possible districts that will turn blue. This will require help from volunteers and I want to receive training that will help me do this." –Mindy N., Overland Park, KS
 
"My mom was almost deported when I was in kindergarten, and I had friends that suffered ICE raids in the 1990s. At a young age, I knew that I was living in two worlds. Every person of color has been dismantling racism when they enter a professional setting whether they wanted to or not … I want to teach my skills to others to make sure that the momentum of the Resistance keeps going. We are looking at the midterms and obviously the 2020 election, but we need people that will continue a lifelong fight and advocate for progressive values." –Don A., San Diego, CA

MoveOn members in action to end GOP control of the House

Will you join Jaden, Lashelle, Mindy, and Don as Resist & Win Leaders? The application is short. Click here and apply today to say you're in.

The goals of MoveOn's Resist & Win program are to

  • end GOP control of the House,
  • elect inspiring movement leaders and progressives up and down the ballot, and
  • build long-term power and community to enact our shared vision of racial justice, an economy that works for everyone, a safe and healthy planet, diplomacy not war, a country that values kids more than guns, and more progressive, commonsense values.  

As a MoveOn Resist & Win Leader you will

  • participate in world-class organizing training sessions online as part of the MoveOn Digital Summer Camp from July 8 to August 8, 2018—just 3-5 hours per week from the comfort of your home (or wherever you will be this summer!);

  • have the opportunity to apply to attend the two-day MoveOn National Grassroots Leadership Summit (location TBA) with hundreds of grassroots movement leaders from around the country, August 25-26, 2018;

  • lead regular Volunteer Waves (MoveOn member and ally-attended community voter contact days of action at the local campaign office of a MoveOn member-endorsed candidate for Congress) this summer and fall to help MoveOn member-endorsed candidates win and to demonstrate the lasting, independent, progressive power of MoveOn members (with T-shirts, oh yes!); and

  • be part of an inspiring, supportive, diverse, and accountable community of fellow social change-makers. This is how we build the movement!

Don't wait; applications are reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, June 22—so apply today! And forward this invitation to 10 of your friends to share the opportunity to make change together.

Thanks for all you do.

–Victoria, Allison, Michael, Matt, and the rest of the team

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.


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