Dear MoveOn member,
In 2020, MoveOn saw the most public engagement on our petition platform in our history, because our members and partner organizations decided to create compelling petition campaigns that grabbed CNN headlines, changed the narrative around issues like racial justice and climate change, and fought for economic justice during the time of COVID-19.
Here are just some of the petitions that MoveOn members took action on this year that impacted their communities and our country:
- MoveOn members organized around racial justice and the Movement for Black Lives:
- Color of Change partnered with us to support the Black Lives Matter movement by demanding justice for George Floyd (over 500,000 signatures), justice for Breonna Taylor (close to 900,000 signatures), and justice for Ahmaud Arbery (over 155,000 signatures).
- The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project partnered with MoveOn and launched a petition to protect sacred lands for the Wampanoag Tribe.
- MoveOn organized with Color of Change and Police Unions Exposed to confront the systemic racism rampant in police departments and dismantle the power of police unions in this country by demanding that Bob Kroll, the race-baiting union leader for the Minneapolis Police Department, be fired and that elected officials cut ties with the Fraternal Order of Police, an organization that has increasingly become an arm of right-wing politics and an obstacle to meaningful police reform.
- MoveOn members fought for COVID-19 relief:
- Dr. Jan Crean started a petition demanding that all COVID-19 data continue to be aggregated at the CDC—when Trump tried to hide the true impact of this pandemic—and organized other health care professionals to put pressure on decision-makers.
- Freedom Forward organized to demand that the Trump administration restore full funding to the World Health Organization, and now, the incoming Biden administration has committed to rejoining the World Health Organization.
- MoveOn worked with Senator Elizabeth Warren to ensure that essential workers in this country have access to personal protective equipment. The signatures for the petition were delivered to Congress in support of the Essential Workers Bill of Rights along with a coalition of organizations.
- MoveOn member Dr. Charles Goodman started a petition demanding that every state have a stay-home order early in the pandemic.
- MoveOn members used this moment to advocate for economic justice:
- MoveOn member Samson Lahti-Parsell created a multilingual petition demanding a rent moratorium in California early during the pandemic and created a Facebook group where numerous people across the country organized to establish rent moratoriums in their cities and states.
- Student Debt Crisis and MoveOn member Consuelo Lopez-Morillas organized to relieve student debt. Student Debt Crisis started a petition to demand that Congress cancel student debt to stimulate the economy (over 1.3 million signatures), and Consuelo started a petition to relieve student debt for health care professionals (over 500,000 signatures). And now, student debt is a national issue that the incoming Biden administration and Senator Schumer are discussing how to tackle.
- MoveOn member RJ Wolfe created and ran one of the largest petitions in MoveOn history to extend the $600-weekly unemployment benefits. He joined forces with a coalition of organizations and participated in a petition delivery and press conference in D.C. This was his first experience organizing!
- MoveOn member Najaka Carter started a petition demanding $600 hazard pay for essential workers that received over 1.6 million signatures and was delivered to Congress.
- David Partridge, a MoveOn member and film and stage actor, started a petition demanding an extension for unemployment weekly benefits for folks in the entertainment industry who have lost their jobs and been hit by the economic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- MoveOn members showed up to push for action on climate change:
- MoveOn partnered with Earth Uprising, a youth-led climate justice organization, and demanded a climate change segment for all presidential debates. Our demands were met, and President-elect Biden and Donald Trump spoke to their plans on climate action in front of a national audience.
- MoveOn member and celebrity Mark Ruffalo started a petition demanding that Governor Murphy, Governor Cuomo, Governor Carney, and Governor Wolf stop the fracked gas export terminal in the Delaware River.
- MoveOn members protected our institutions against Trump's attacks:
- MoveOn member Patrick Chaffeur started a petition to the board of governors of the United States Postal Service, demanding the removal of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, after Trump threatened to defund the USPS (almost 1 million signatures). Not only that, MoveOn members showed up to actions in support of the USPS throughout the country.
- MoveOn started a petition after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to demand that the Senate refuse to seat a new Supreme Court justice until after the 2021 inauguration. Nearly 1.5 million people signed this petition, and we delivered it to the Senate in efforts to block the rushed confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.
- MoveOn partnered with Common Cause to stand with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who courageously testified in the House impeachment inquiry and was thus pushed out of the National Security Council.
- Diane Yoder, teacher from Wisconsin and MoveOn member, started a petition after the 2020 election, demanding that GSA Administrator Emily Murphy recognize President-elect Joe Biden. CNN picked up the story and featured the petition delivery in one of their segments, and under pressure from the public, Murphy released the funds for the Biden transition.
These are just some of the issues that MoveOn, our members, and partner organizations have worked on over the past year. Not to mention our campaign with MoveOn member and celebrity Jon Stewart and 9/11 first responder John Feal demanding that Congress stop ignoring veterans who are sick and dying from toxic burn pits.
There are so many other local, statewide, and national issues that members have organized on, and it's truly inspiring.
And MoveOn members are just getting started. The energy that we've seen in 2020 is building momentum for meaningful and long-term systemic change under the Biden administration.
Will you join us in 2021 as MoveOn and our members work on COVID-19 relief, free and equitable access to the coronavirus vaccine, economic and racial justice, and the fight for a clean and sustainable planet? You can also start a petition and organize on an issue that is important to you.
We have no choice but to organize, and the MoveOn petition platform is here to give you a vital, free tool in making your voice heard.
Thanks for all you do.
–Isbah, Pulin, Jenn, Arvin, and the rest of the team
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