WASHINGTON, DC – In the aftermath of voters overwhelmingly rejecting the Trump Crow regime at the polls, organizers with Millennial & GenZ-led activist group Get Free held a sit-in at Sen. Schumer’s office on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to demand Democratic leaders take decisive action to defend and expand civil rights. Police arrested three activists at the sit-in. Afterwards, the remaining attendees held a small rally outside the steps of the House of Representatives.
The group points to both the Black vote overcoming GOP efforts to prevent them from voting and to deny equal representation along with young people and voters across race turning out in record numbers to reject this white supremacist regime as grounds for Democrats to heal the broken foundation in America and mandate repair for true equality.
Activists are specifically calling on Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, and would-be Democratic leaders to commit to restoring voting and civil rights, investigate the MAGA regime’s attacks on equality, and begin reckoning with old inequalities at America’s foundation.
“The MAGA regime has undone 60 years of hard won civil rights victories. They want to rule an America that only serves wealthy, white men. But voters rejected Trump Crow and delivered Democrats a repair mandate to defend and expand civil rights. We need Democratic leaders to meet the moment lest we repeat history again,” said Nicole Carty, Executive Director of Get Free. “I’m a third-generation Georgian; my grandfather organized alongside Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights. The future is equality. We won’t go back.”
“As a Kansan, not only have we seen examples of some of the worst of MAGA’ attacks on equality, but last Tuesday with our historic vote we decisively rejected the deepening of a violent racial hierarchy. We may not all have the same backgrounds, names, or past, but we are coming together to demand the new Congress take urgent action to investigate and reverse the MAGA regime’s attacks on equality, protect the Black vote & Black representation, and champion civil rights in their first month in office,” said JJ Briscoe, a volunteer leader with Get Free. “By making our elected leaders back a deeper reckoning with the origins of American fascism & inequality, we will finish the job of our civil rights ancestors and rewrite the rules of the system for a more free & equal future.”
