Fight For Our Lives -- Biden's Corporate Cabinet Tour

Start: Friday, December 11, 202011:30 AM

End: Friday, December 11, 2020 2:00 PM

We're organizing an action at the offices of Biden's major Cabinet appointments in downtown DC to defend & advance our real solutions that have broad popular support.

What: Protest Biden's neoliberal Cabinet appointments as part of the first wave of DSA's national Green New Deal mobilization.

Where: Meet up at Dupont Circle and march across the K St swamp. Conclude at Biden's transition team office at the Department of Commerce.

When: 11:30am on Fri December 11th -- start marching at 12pm, finish around 2pm.

Who:

  • Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary -- Yellen serves as a board member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which pushes austerity policies that are at the heart of the opposition to a Green New Deal.
  • Anita Dunn, Biden's senior advisor and transition team co-chair -- Dunn works for SKDKnickerbocker, a corporate lobbying firm representing fossil fuels and fracked gas.
  • Tony Blinken, Secretary of State -- Blinken is a co-founder of WestExec Advisors, a defense consulting firm that profiteers off the military-industrial complex.
  • Gen. Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense -- Austin serves on the board of numerous private weapons manufacturing corporations and his appointment directly violates the norm of civilian rule over the military.
  • Neera Tanden, head of the Office of Management and Budget -- as the director of the Center for American Progress, Tanden has pushed for imperialist military intervention to steal resources in order to "pay for" the national debt and has been a prominent union buster.
  • Brian Deese, Chair of the National Economic Council, and Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Treasury Secretary -- Deese and Adeyemo have gone through the revolving door to BlackRock, the world's #1 financier of fossil fuels.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/663993364270222

All attendees are expected to wear masks and stay socially distanced. If you are experiencing any COVID symptoms, please stay home!

We’re in the middle of an unprecedented emergency with massive human costs. People are dying. The planet is on fire. And instead of figuring out how to align with popular movement demands like a Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and defunding police to reinvest in care — which reflect real needs of the masses — establishment Democrats are blaming the left for their own losses in the November elections.
Meanwhile, Biden is setting up a White House cabinet full of people promising a return to the same kinds of policies that led to Trump in the first place.

That's why we're organizing an action at the offices of Biden's major Cabinet appointments in downtown DC — to defend & advance our real solutions that have broad popular support. It’s time to put establishment Democrats on blast for their ongoing failure to support the working class. This is do or die—now is the time to FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES.

Our Demands:
— Immediate COVID-19 Crisis Relief (including $2,000 per month for all)
— A Green Stimulus (including investments in renewable Public Power)
— A Green Job Guarantee
— The PRO Act
— The Healthcare Emergency Guarantee Act