There’s been a groundswell of energy to oust AIPAC shills Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer from leadership of the house and senate. Despite the best efforts of centrist Dems to dissuade people from signing the petition, change.org/newspeaker now has 885,000 signatures(up from 450,000 yesterday morning) and https://www.change.org/p/replace-chuck-schumer-as-senate-majority-leader has almost 115,000 signatures(up from 5,000 yesterday). These petitions matter. When the Jeffries petition hits 1,000,000 signatures media is going to be forced to cover the issue.
Action List:
Call your reps to reject Schumer and Jeffries: https://rejectschumerandjeffries.com/
Send e-mails to senators and reps: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-democrats-no-schumer-coronation/
Phone bank for Mississippi: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ns5E3HDOvUcbc5LSSkohJOMgvU-h5inoO8F2BfA27Yk/edit?usp=sharing
Tell your representatives:
Strip out 219 of the House NDAA, no to US and Israeli military merger and stop all aid to Israel.
No to war in Iran, stop the blockade of Cuba, and impeach Pete Hegseth.
No to Jeffries as house speaker.
Tell your senators:
Strip out section 1217 of the NDAA, no to US and Israeli military merger and stop all aid to Israel.
No to war in Iran, stop the blockade of Cuba, and impeach Pete Hegseth.
No to Schumer as senate leader.
It is true that you need to make calls and send e-mails in addition to signing the petitions. Here’s some excellent tools to do just that:
Make calls to reject Schumer and Jeffries: https://rejectschumerandjeffries.com/
Send e-mails to senators and reps: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-democrats-no-schumer-coronation/
Social Media Strategy to Oust Schumer, Jeffries, and Hegseth
I would like for us to withhold our tax dollars, to withhold our labor through a general strike, and to take to the streets to fight for our demands. Unfortunately there is simply not the organization or the will for that kind of action in America, not yet. But we can build it.
The groundswell energy that we’re witnessing now is what revolutions are born out of. And we must take the concrete steps so that we can be a vanguard for this revolutionary energy. Revolution cannot be forced. It arises naturally from material conditions. What we can do is help organize that energy and to help educate people as to the root cause of their grievances(the capitalist system designed to exploit them at every turn).
So, to that end, we must push for our demands and not back down. Don’t let people tell you that there’s “nothing we can do, this is the process.”
Bullshit! The selection process for speaker of the house, or senate majority leader is not a law of nature. It’s not even a law. It’s just tradition and rules. So change the rules and break the traditions! THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT OF YOU.
Create Your Own Videos & Posts
Brazil taught us that it’s not enough to simply share the videos of content creators. You can amplify them regardless of how many followers you have. Shoot it on your cellphone, you don’t even need to edit it, one take is all that’s needed. Say something like, “We demand new leadership from the Dems, replace Jeffries and Schumer! Call your reps and senators and demand it, I called today.”
It can be that quick and that easy. You might not have a ton of reach, but the reach you do have matters much more than my reach, because it will be friends, family, and people that are much more likely to take action and pay attention when they see it coming from YOU.
Call Everyday
Call your reps and senators everyday. You can also call reps and senators that aren’t in your state if you have the time. I’ll be calling Thomas Massie’s office to urge him to impeach Hegseth and calling Chris Van Hollen to urge him to put in for senate leader.
Tell your representatives:
Strip out 219 of the House NDAA, no to US and Israeli military merger and stop all aid to Israel.
No to war in Iran, stop the blockade of Cuba, and impeach Pete Hegseth.
No to Jeffries as house speaker.
Tell your senators:
Strip out section 1217 of the NDAA, no to US and Israeli military merger and stop all aid to Israel.
No to war in Iran, stop the blockade of Cuba, and impeach Pete Hegseth.
No to Schumer as senate leader.
For more context on these demands see this post from yesterday.
Recruit One Person Each Day
Our WhatsApp organizing group has doubled again growing from 150 members yesterday to 350 members today and the Signal organizing group has grown to 150 members in just one day. People are taking concrete actions there everyday and we’re holding a live organizing meeting today at 2pm eastern.
Reach out to one person each day, friends, family, could be people that you just interact with frequently online even and recruit them to these efforts. Send them pages like this, invite them to the organizing groups, get them to sign the petition, urge them to start taking these small actions.
Engage with good content, IGNORE centrist content!
Another lesson from Brazil - our collective actions can turn the algorithm in our favor. Watch content calling for ousting of Schumer and Jeffries, the end of war against Iran, the end of the blockade of Cuba, the end of aid to Israel all the way to the end.
Watch the video all the way to the end.
Leave a comment that actually engages with the topic of the video.
Share it to others in direct messages and as a story with text, you can copy/paste your comment if you like
Per @sim_bookstagrams_badly use hashtags #NoHakeem #NoChuck
Important: Don’t engage with the rage bait put out by centrist Dems(it’s tough, I need to get better at this too). The people saying things like, “you don’t understand procedure” or “we have no other choice but Jeffries.” Just scroll right on by, starving them of engagement will make these people lose reach and lose relevance and is the best way to fight them.
Most Important - Stay Engaged
This will be a long, LONG road. There’s been many comparisons made between 1930s Germany and the Trump regime but as I read more I think our period more closely matches with Weimar Republic, Germany.
In Weimar the SPD, social democrats, the centrists aligned themselves with far-right fascist militias like the Freikorps and executed hundreds of socialists in the streets of Berlin in early 1919. Excellent overview of that history: https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/Broschur_RL_in_the_German_Rev_Web.pdf
Remind you of the attacks against the progressive and socialist Democrat candidates by the centrist Dems? The Weimar Republic was a “Democracy Without Democrats.” The formal structures of power changed but the social status quo remained intact - the judiciary, civil service, military and education elite were all still dominated by the same monarchists and anti-democratic elites who dominated German politics before the revolution of 1918.
This is the issue we have always faced with Democrats. People elect them to change, but rather than changing anything material they hem and haw and talk about all the reasons why they can’t get anything done while advancing the interests of the billionaires and foreign lobbies that funded their campaigns. This is again the issue we face today.
If we do not get real policy changes, if we do not abolish ICE, and prosecute the criminals of this regime from top to bottom, if we do not stop funding genocide and if we do not address cost of living then the pendulum will swing back hard again and we’ll get an even worse version of Trump. Just like how the ineffective Weimar Republic and their government’s alignment with far-right militias to fight against socialists and communists paved the way for the rise of Hitler.
Many of the leaders of the Freikorps who participated in the killings of socialists in Berlin in 1918-1919 would go on to become prominent leaders within the Nazi party.
If we don’t want to repeat history we must stay engaged. We must continue to organize. We must continue to educate. We cannot allow the masses of people who are so energized in this moment to go back to sleep.
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Real response and real work for those who are done libbing out after the midterms.
V (underthedesk) is such a vile pos