Pots and Pans to Demand Government Action
A CALL FOR INTERSECTIONAL MASS ACTION DURING COVID-19
Register here for the Zoom call, so we can all protest together.
http://bit.ly/PotsandPansRegister
Record and send the videos of you banging on pots and pans and telling us how COVID is impacting you and what you need here: https://bit.ly/covidvideoshare
Here's the digital toolkit:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nx8--WWrCuMzNrpB_FhsuSmkw3rSlI-r-kr5FyRijEY/edit
This moment urgently calls us to exercise our collective power in spite of physical distance. Our communities, already ravaged by years of extraction and exploitation, now face a once in a 100 year crisis — the economic and political fallout of which will leave many of our people jobless, homeless, hungry or, even worse, dead. We need #Recovery4All, including immigrants!
And in every crisis, the human spirit of solidarity, community and support also lives. We are asking you to open your window and bang on pots and pans at 2pm on Friday for 10 minutes to demand government action. We will do this in NYC every Friday until May Day. Then we will do it EVERYWHERE. We will keep banging until we are heard.
We Demand:#CancelRent — Cancel rent and mortgage payments, establish a housing emergency fund, Freeze evictions, foreclosures, and utility shut-offs in all housing, Declare a moratorium on all work requirements for housing, house the houseless, $100 billion in rent assistance.#ReleaseThemAll - Decarcerate — Immigration and Justice Transformation. Release everyone currently in immigration detention, release particularly vulnerable populations from prisons and jails to relieve concentration of risk to coronavirus, close immigration courts and cancel check-ins and other immigration interviews, hold telephonic bond hearings, divest resources from wall construction and border enforcement to provide medical care and create cash-based disaster relief to out-of-work households regardless of status. CASA, MRPA, MRNJ, TOP,#EssentalWorker — UBI, UI, Green New Deal, Medicare For All, Childcare for All, Paid Sick, Hazard Pay, PPE, Paycheck guarantee#AmazonStrikes — Paid Leave, Hazard Pay, care subsidies, shutdown and clean facilities with workers paid, personal protective equipment, no discipline or raising safety concerns, end work practices such as production quotas.#ClimateStrike — The 50th anniversary of Earth Day is 4/22, which was planned as a day of mass action.
#MedicareforAllCOVID
Here's how it works:
-At 2pm, join the zoom and listen to your neighbors talk about why they are banging pots and pans
-Wear something red, because it’s an emergency.
-Make a sign or banner saying something the government needs to do to protect us. Hold it or hang it out your window or off your roof.
-Make a racket for 10 minutes. Whistle, shout, sing, pray, bang on a pot, hoot, holler, drum, blast music and dance--it’s up to you. Just do it loud enough to wake up our leaders--and remind each other that our country is better, and stronger, than this. (Don't forget to follow social distancing.)
-Take pictures or videos and post with #PeoplesBailout #Recovery4All
- Upload videos here: https://bit.ly/covidvideoshare
Tell all of your friends to do it on MAY 1st for a HUGE national day of action.
We have socially distanced. We have stayed home--or risked our health to do essential work. We have lost income, put our lives on hold, shuttered businesses. We are homeschooling our kids, checking on our neighbors, and begging our parents to stay in. We are masking up.
We are doing what we can.
But the government is leaving us to die.