Friend,
Yesterday, an organized and violent right-wing mob forcefully entered and occupied the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. as Congress prepared to certify the 2020 presidential election results. These Trump supporters, emboldened by Republican Party members, proudly carried symbols of white supremacy, bigotry, and nationalism. Their violence resulted in four deaths.
East Bay DSA condemns these events and demands that no quarter be given for fascist and white supremacist political organizations in the U.S. or abroad. These attacks represent a basic affront to democracy, and we condemn Trump and the Republican Party, who have spent months attempting to delegitimize the election while stoking white supremacist violence and organization.
We also applaud DSA member and Representative Cori Bush’s (MO-01) Resolution Condemning Republican Efforts to Overturn Election <[link removed]>, which calls for Congress to formally condemn all attempts to disenfranchise Black, Brown, and Indigenous voters in the 2020 elections. It also calls upon the House Committee on Ethics to investigate members of Congress who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, with the possibility of sanction and removal from office. Far-right, white supremacists and those who embolden them should have no place in power — we have to force them out.
See East Bay DSA’s full statement on yesterday’s right-wing violence and Representative Bush’s resolution here. <[link removed]>
East Bay DSA also calls upon our local Representatives Mike Thompson (CA-05), Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11), Barbara Lee (CA-13), Eric Swalwell (CA-15), and Ro Khanna (CA-17) to co-sponsor Representative Bush’s resolution and stand against these attacks on democracy. We encourage our members and supporters to contact their Representatives to urge them to join Representative Bush in this effort.
☎️ Call your Representative today! <[link removed]> ☎️
Our main hope in the face of injustice and violence is organization. To that end, we invite all members and supporters to join our General Meeting this Sunday <[link removed]> and our next Direct Action Working Group training on January 16th-17th. <[link removed]> Our power lies in numbers, and in building a mass movement able and willing to organize and fight for the lives, dignity and safety of the many—especially the most marginalized—over the profits of a few.
In solidarity,
The East Bay DSA Steering Committee
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