Just hours ago, Analilia Mejía, a working-class, antiracist candidate who ran on a platform of abolishing ICE and fighting for working people, won the NJ-11 special primary in a massive upset. SURJ members called 20,000 voters in majority white districts for Analilia to help deliver this reckoning to mainstream Democrats and ensure Analilia joins the ranks of the Squad in Congress in the fall.
We’re riding the high of this movement win this week right into the pending Senate vote on funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
Because of public pressure, they did not pass additional funding for DHS and deferred a vote, but this final vote will have a critical impact on stopping ICE’s racist death march across the country. Analilia’s win is further evidence: we have never been in a better position to defund and abolish ICE.
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Why Target? Target is headquartered in Minnesota and have been the target of organizing there because of their collaboration with ICE– and as a major national corporation, they have lobbying power in Congress. Pressuring them to end ICE collaboration will be a show of our movement’s power for lawmakers.
We have the momentum– and this is our opportunity to push for real wins. Inspired by the people of Minneapolis, Americans are rising up across the country and forcing corporations, elected officials, and the judicial system to reckon with our will.
This is the time to keep organizing, and keep putting pressure on the institutions that uphold ICE, and to get into formation to elect more candidates like Analilia throughout the primary season and into the midterm elections.
Be each others’ Valentines– break up with ICE! See you this week.
SURJ
Showing Up for Racial Justice
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Buffalo, NY 14205
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