Resistance calls & cards @ CBST lobby
- 10 May 2018 12:30 - 14:00
- protest
- CBST lobby - 130 West 30th Street between 6th & 7th Aves..
- $ Ticket price starts from : FREE
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Launched in response to the 2016 election, we want to provide a time and a place for members and non members to gather weekly to protest the current administration and raise our voices against the encroaching hatred, bigotry, criminality, greed and hypocrisy in Washington.
Our group believes that one of the most powerful and effective way to work toward positive change in government and society is by coordinating efforts among people who share the same vision of a just, free and democratic society whose constitution forms the bedrock of what connects us as a nation. It is our differences that make us stronger and wiser and it is precisely those differences that have made this country what it is today. Our job as citizens is to speak out, speak up, protest, demonstrate and get involved especially when those rights and that vision are being abrogated on a daily basis. The social justice/social action roots in Judaism run deep and clear. We are commanded thusly: You are not required to complete the work, but you must begin.”
We call and write postcards to Congress, the Senate, the White House and any salient agency or official to voice our concerns. We have protested everything from the destruction of the EPA to the Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch, to the decimation of laws protecting transgender students, to the appointment of David Friedman as Ambassador to Israel to name a few.
What’s more – we know it’s working! We called and wrote postcards about preserving the Affordable Care Act and stopping the AHCA. We are heartened by the collapse of the first campaign to overturn the ACA as well as Mark Green’s withdrawal from consideration for the Army Secretary post for which he was nominated. Clearly, our voices are being heard, as they chant at the protests: