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Together, we demonstrated we can win for people and planet.
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This is not our usual email. Before today, like many of us, I was scared and anxious about this election season.
I was horrified to see the largest anti-Semitic massacre in Pittsburgh and the anti-Black shooting of two people in a supermarket a couple weeks ago.
I cried for the asylum seekers, trans and intersex people, and Black and Latinx voters who were put at risk in the name of corporate interests and racists. I was heartbroken that people had to pay this toll for Trump’s “nationalism.”
All this to try to win an election.
Some corporations--like Amazon and Microsoft’s technology for ICE--have actively aided the mission of the far-right. Some have simply not taken an action to defend the things that matter.
For those corporations and CEOs, SumOfUs members like you have been holding them to account with petitions and picket signs--acts of love and fury for a more just world.
Before today, SumOfUs members chose democracy over corporatocracy and voted in new progressive pathways to corporate accountability across the country.
[Trump Projection Action NYC]
With the support of SumOfUs members like you, we projected a message on Trump’s properties in NYC to shine a light on the corruption that fuels his corporate coup.
And we mobilized thousands of voters in Baltimore to win a ballot measure that makes Baltimore the first major city in the country to ban water privatization. ([You can donate here to support more efforts like this.](
Together, we demonstrated we can win for people and planet.
And we mobilized to support each other.
We came together and raised funds for HIAS, a Jewish organization that helps refugees. They were named by the Pittsburgh shooter as the cause for his deadly attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue.
[Support HIAS by donating here.](
Jewish organizers came together and organized against racism.
[Support Jews for Racial and Economic Justice here.](
Black organizers with the Movement for Black Lives came together and rallied people in the name of life and dignity.
[Donate to Movement for Black Lives here.](
Trans and intersex activists organized in the name of the full and total humanity of all people.
[Donate to the Transgender Law Center here.](
[Donate to InterACT here.](
[Donate to Southerners on New Ground here.](
Migrant groups organized in the name of empathy across borders.
[Donate to Mijente here.](
[Donate to United We Dream here.](
With your efforts and theirs, I felt restored and even more committed to carrying on our task. I hope you do too.
I want to leave you with a poem from Aurora Levins Morales, reprinted with her permission.
V'ahavta
Aurora Levins Morales
Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up,
when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning
and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts,
embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders,
teach them to your children, your neighbors, your enemies,
recite them in your sleep, here in the cruel shadow of empire:
Another world is possible.
Thus spoke the prophet Roque Dalton:
All together they have more death than we,
but all together, we have more life than they.
There is more bloody death in their hands
than we could ever wield, unless
we lay down our souls to become them,
and then we will lose everything. So instead,
imagine winning. This is your sacred task.
This is your power. Imagine
every detail of winning, the exact smell of the summer streets
in which no one has been shot, the muscles you have never
unclenched from worry, gone soft as newborn skin,
the sparkling taste of food when we know
that no one on earth is hungry, that the beggars are fed,
that the old man under the bridge and the woman
wrapping herself in thin sheets in the back seat of a car,
and the children who suck on stones,
nest under a flock of roofs that keep multiplying their shelter.
Lean with all your being towards that day
when the poor of the world shake down a rain of good fortune
out of the heavy clouds, and justice rolls down like waters.
Defend the world in which we win as if it were your child.
It is your child.
Defend it as if it were your lover.
It is your lover.
When you inhale and when you exhale
breathe the possibility of another world
into the 37.2 trillion cells of your body
until it shines with hope.
Then imagine more.
Imagine rape is unimaginable. Imagine war is a scarcely credible rumor
That the crimes of our age, the grotesque inhumanities of greed,
the sheer and astounding shamelessness of it, the vast fortunes
made by stealing lives, the horrible normalcy it came to have,
is unimaginable to our heirs, the generations of the free.
Don’t waver. Don’t let despair sink its sharp teeth
Into the throat with which you sing. Escalate your dreams.
Make them burn so fiercely that you can follow them down
any dark alleyway of history and not lose your way.
Make them burn clear as a starry drinking gourd
Over the grim fog of exhaustion, and keep walking.
Hold hands. Share water. Keep imagining.
So that we, and the children of our children’s children
may live
Aurora Levins Morales is a community supported poet and disabled woman of color, so if the poem moved you, we encourage you to donate to her [Patreon]( or [buy a print of the poem.](
Thanks for all that you do,
Salma, Sijal, and the team at SumOfUs
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