CODEPINK's Statement On the Election of Donald Trump
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With the election results in CODEPINK’s demands and goals remain the same: We want an end to all wars, occupations and genocides. We want justice for the people of the world and for the planet. We will continue organizing to that end. We are not filled with despair, but immense hope because we know social movements around the globe and here in the belly of the beast have incredible potential to change the world. Where there are human beings, there are compassionate and kind individuals who want to be brought into the movement – and that is our current task.
As in the days and months before the election, the genocide in Gaza continues with bodies piling up so high they cannot be counted. Neither of the main candidates presented to us, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, promised an end to that crisis of humanity. Now, it is our profound responsibility to keep mobilizing and organizing the vast majority of Americans who are opposed to the United States going to war and are opposed to arming Israel. How could we despair when we have the people on our side?
We will continue educating and organizing for peace, for a free Palestine, and for a country that invests in its people, not destruction of the earth and human life. Above all, we call on those who are feeling bruised and battered by this election to join us in the movement for a better world. It is not enough to feel upset about the outcome and it is dangerous to resign ourselves to despair. Just as this election was marketed to us as the most important election of our lifetime, we have the opportunity to make this the most impactful period for social movements in our history.
If you want a movement home, CODEPINK is here to welcome you. Join the movement.
The coalition against genocide has formed and grown and made connections with powerhouse activists, especially in the Muslim and Arab American community speaking from the horror at the murder of their families; the student movement; the reawakened antiwar movement; Workers Strike Back, and the successful Abandon Harris movement. Hope is the resistance to brutalization growing in solidarity with the displaced, degraded, disinherited and death camped across the earth.