WE JUST BLOCKADED THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER.
AND THAT WAS MERELY OUR WARMUP.
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We need consistent, mass-turnout, nonviolent disruption to stop business as usual and compel politicians to act.
When we engage in direct action—whether through a strike, a blockade, or a mass occupation—we break through.
People see us. People tune in. People engage. Our movement grows.
Direct action puts the state in a double-bind: allow the action (and the disruption) to continue or crack down, further driving up public support for the cause.
ABOUT US:
We are young. We are livid. We are no longer willing to be disposable.
We have been sold out by our politicians. We have been betrayed. But we refuse to lose hope.
We come from many walks of life but are united in fighting for a thriving and just world.
We came of age in a time of great tumult. A global pandemic. A deadly assault on democracy. Mass shootings with our morning coffee.
And hovering above it all, an existential crisis that threatens every fiber of every being in every corner of the world.
Our leaders have failed to save us. So we will save ourselves.
We aim not to work within the current political reality. We aim to change it.
We can do it. We have leverage.
The laws of nature do not care what’s “realistically feasible.” And neither do we.
We will use mass-turnout, peaceful direct action to force our politicians to take action at the scope and speed necessary to avert the worst impacts of this crisis.
Join us.
PLAN:
THE RUN-DOWN
We just blockaded the White House Correspondents Dinner. And we will continue to engage in disruptive, nonviolent direct action until our political leaders, up to the President, meet this moment with the urgency it deserves.
MISSION:
End fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters.
End sacrifice zones and usher in a just transition for those most impacted.
Stand in solidarity with our sister-struggles for racial and economic justice.
Deploy mass turnout, disruptive direct action to compel politicians to act with the urgency this moment deserves.
Elevate climate change to a top-three political issue in American politics.
Make support for any fossil fuels as unacceptable on the left as opposing abortion or gay marriage.
Move the Overton Window (the accepted terms of debate).
Make clear to Democratic lawmakers that the youth vote will only deliver for them if they deliver for us.
VISION:
RACIAL JUSTICE.
ECONOMIC EQUALITY.
A PLANET THAT SUSTAINS LIFE.
VALUES:
- mass participation
- solidarity
- community
- peacefulness
- initiative
- brightness
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