{"id":35203,"date":"2024-07-28T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=35203"},"modified":"2024-07-28T13:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T20:05:40","slug":"top-progressive-groups-launch-massive-grassroots-mobilization-for-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/top-progressive-groups-launch-massive-grassroots-mobilization-for-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Progressive Groups Launch Massive Grassroots Mobilization for Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School on July 23, 2024 in West Allis, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Jim Vondruska\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our coalition was critical to defeating Trump in 2020,” said one organizer. “We’re ready to do it again in 2024.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jul 25, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Announcing their endorsement of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, three of the country’s largest progressive organizations announced Thursday their plan to mobilize their hundreds of thousands of members to reach out to millions of swing state voters about Harris’ fight for abortion rights, the climate, and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPD), the Working Families Party (WFP), and People’s Action pledged<\/a> to knock on more than five million doors in states including Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona, where they will tell voters about the key role Harris played in passing far-reaching climate action and jobs legislation in the Inflation Reduction Act, her strong support for abortion rights, and her commitment to delivering on President Joe Biden’s housing agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our coalition was critical to defeating [Republican presidential nominee Donald] Trump<\/a> in 2020. We’re ready to do it again in 2024,” said Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party. “This election is bigger than any one person. It\u2019s about the kind of country we want to be and whether we will let the rights and freedoms our ancestors spent generations fighting for\u2014the right to participate equally in our democracy, to organize our workplaces, and to control our own bodies\u2014be taken away from us. Over the next four months, we’ll be mobilizing voters in key states to elect Kamala Harris and build our ranks of WFP champions up and down the ballot.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three groups’ joint announcement of their endorsement of Harris comes four days after the vice president launched her campaign following Biden’s <\/a>decision to step aside under pressure from Democrats, due to concerns about his age, health, and sinking popularity among voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Sunday, the gun violence prevention group March for Our Lives has also announced <\/a>its first-ever presidential endorsement of Harris, and the vice president has secured support<\/a> from at least four national climate action groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Biden\/Harris administration created real momentum toward an economy that puts working people before billionaires and a democracy that protects hard-won freedoms for everyone. We need to build on that momentum.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We see an unprecedented surge of enthusiasm on the doors and from our members about Vice President Kamala Harris,” said Marta Popadiak, movement governing director of People’s Action. “The Biden\/Harris administration created real momentum toward an economy that puts working people before billionaires and a democracy that protects hard-won freedoms for everyone. We need to build on that momentum.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People’s Action has utilized “deep canvassing,”<\/a> an organizing tactic that eschews the brief, scripted conversations typical in traditional phone-banking and door-knocking operations in favor of longer discussions and open-ended questions aimed at developing an understanding of voters’ beliefs, priorities, and values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are mobilizing tens of thousands of volunteers to have deep conversations about why voting for Harris is a vote for a future in which our families and communities will thrive,” said Popadiak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People’s Action expressed hope that a Harris presidency could initiate a shift in the Biden administration’s “disastrous support” for Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are proud to join with @CPDAction<\/a> & @WorkingFamilies<\/a> to endorse Kamala Harris for president! Harris has the chance to build on the president\u2019s investments in our communities while turning the page on the U.S.'s disastrous support for the Israeli government\u2019s assault on Gaza.<\/p>— People's Action (@PplsAction) July 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>