For months, we’ve been in the streets standing behind Palestinian organizers to send Biden a very clear message: your failure to protect Palestinians’ human rights is a threat to your candidacy. In part because of that organizing, he dropped out of the race.
With Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, there are new and powerful opportunities to organize. We have a responsibility to both get her elected and to hold her accountable to end the genocide and to enact progressive policies.
As ever, we are fighting for the conditions we want to organize under for the next four years—a quick glance over Trump’s campaign promises and Project 2025 makes clear how dangerous his presidency would be to every one of us. What’s different this time is that with a new democratic candidate, thousands of people are re-engaged in this race and ready to be organized. Many of us are fired up to defend against the racist, sexist vitriol that the Right will be throwing at Harris from every angle, as part of a coordinated strategy to win over white voters. This is what we call a “movement moment”: a time when lots of people are revved up and ready to get to work, and where we have a clear mandate to get in formation.
The energy is palpable. On Sunday night, over 44,000 Black women joined a call with Win With Black Women to organize to elect Harris. We know that people of color will overwhelmingly support the Democratic nominee, and that Black women especially are stepping up to do the work to put her in office.
This is our work to do too; we know that white people put Trump in office in 2016. It’s on us to take up the responsibility to out-organize MAGA in white communities. Last night over 13,000 people joined an energizing call with SURJ National to kick off a phonebanking and canvassing campaign that is laser focused on the most strategic parts of the white electorate.
Did you miss it? Watch a recording of the webinar here. We promise you’ll feel inspired and ready to jump into action.
Are you ready to get involved? Do these two things:
Join SURJ NYC at our chapter meeting next Thursday August 1st to get in formation with SURJ NYC folks working to defeat Trump and get prepared for whatever comes in November
Sign up for SURJ National’s the Many Over the MAGA phonebanking team. The team kicks off tomorrow, July 24th, with an orientation.
As Jennifer Knox, the National Director of Organizing at Working Families Party, said to white folks on last night’s call, “You are so deeply needed in this moment; the mandate is very real for your leadership in this moment.”
Onward,
SURJ NYC