Progressive organizations across the U.S. are joining together in the latest showing of widespread resistance to President-elect Donald Trump’s right-wing agenda, from climate policies to civil rights.
Dozens of groups including the Center for Biological Diversity, United We Dream, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, on Tuesday launched a campaign called United Resistance, pledging to “stand together in support of racial, social, environmental, economic justice for all, and against Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, homophobia, sexism, and all those forces which would tear apart a democracy of, by, and for all the people.”
“We pledge to take action to support one another, to be accountable to one another, and to act together in solidarity, whether in the streets, in the halls of power, or in our communities every day,” the groups state. “When they come for one, they come for us all.”
“We are putting the new administration on notice: every day of the next four years, be prepared to confront powerful organized communities who refuse to be silenced.”
—Judith Browne Dianis,
Advancement Project
In a video accompanying the campaign’s launch, members of the organizations outline their call for collective action and litigation in the face of threats to civil and human rights.
“We are facing fascism right now,” says Eveline Shen, executive director of the advocacy group Forward Together.
Cornell Brooks, president of the NAACP, continues, “We have to affirm our common citizenship, and more importantly, our common humanity.”
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