Far-left activist groups are planning a series of post-election strategy meetings to push back against the upcoming presidency of Donald Trump before he's even taken office. This effort to "resist" in advance of any policy proposals coming into effect is reminiscent of the movement that began in 2016 right after Trump was elected the first time.
The Working Families Party (WFP) MoveOn, Indivisible Project, Public Citizen, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have created a coalition together with over 100 other groups and Progressive Caucus Chair and “Squad” member Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). Together, they will "resist."
The organizers have scheduled 8 weekly “Mass Calls,” at 8-9 pm EST, beginning November 7. Leah Greenberg, cofounder and co-executive director (with husband Ezra Levin) of Indivisible told Fast Company, “We’re not trying to organize into a big, top-down super group. Ultimately, what we want to do is be well networked and in deep relationship with each other.”
She continued, “I think the first priority is going to be holding space for our community and making sure that people understand that this is a devastating development. But it is a blow to democracy. It is not the end of democracy.”
National press secretary for the WFP Ravi Mangla added, “We don’t have any interest in spending that post election moment pointing fingers or assigning blame. We’re ready to get to work to fight back, state by state, against the second round of Trumpism.”
The groups’ agenda items reportedly include, “environmental protection, abortion rights, and a crackdown on immigration. Mangla also planned to protest the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025, an massive, near 900-page agenda that was disavowed by Trump.
The opposition will now involve, “being able to fight on a grassroots level, being able to pull together coalitions of people to create bulwarks against these policies,” Mangla says. “Maybe that is fighting at a city and state level to create policies and insulate people.”
Greenberg added, “We’re thinking about organizing locally. We’re thinking about building the kind of political power at the state, the local, the federal level. The success of that depends on how strong the backlash is and what tools we can ultimately leverage to delay and degrade those attacks on our on our communities, and then ultimately building the political power to move them out of office.”
When Trump was inaugurated for his first term in Jan 2017, far-left activists rioted in Washington DC.
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