What @M4M4ALL & @ForceTheVoteM4A have in common is, they were/are organized by the grassroots! They both are made to push M4A onto the national public awareness platform. They both build movement energy and moral (something that the progressive caucus doesn’t seem to care about).
They both required time and organizing effort. They both have been smeared and undermined as a strategy.
Okay how do they differ?
@M4M4ALL is RIGHT NOW!! In 3 days, in 51 FUCKING CITIES across this country!!!!!
My mind is COMPLETELY blown away.
Although FTV energized us,
FTV did not offer the same potential to continue building our movement and our coalitions. It was NOT in 51 cities.
It DID NOT, take organizers potentially deeply into debt to cover toilets, sound equipment, permits, ETC!!
Excuse my French but I’ve just—I can’t hold it in. ⬇️
This is seriously F*CKED.
It just is.
I feel like I’m living in some kind of twilight zone where we were told we need a political revolution and we go out and accept outreach from people we don’t even know, but now consider very good friends—we are fighting for each other,
We are fighting for people’s gd lives!!!
I am truly and completely appalled.
—To ask the movement to donate two election cycles in a row to @BernieSanders@People4Bernie and then @justicedems to a slate of candidates and WE DID THOSE THINGS!!
If we had money we donated!!!⬇️
I’m just…jfc we are broke. We literally PAID TO get @AOC and the rest of them elected and we worked our asses off and donated a shit ton to @BernieSanders!!
I’ve knit nearly 350 red berets for national improved Medicare for All and locally @WholeWashington (1/2)
I am out years of money for yarn that craft into these hats that many oriole just find fucking stupid— in many cases I just give them away because what?? I CAN! I’m a socialist and I CARE about doing SOMETHING to lift the Medicare for All platform!!
Yes I’ll continue!!‼️⬇️
In summation, I think it is extremely F*Cked UP that Bernie and the progressive caucus and yes, even you, beloved Nina Turner, are ignoring dozens of core organizers, hundreds of volunteers and thousands of people ready to fill the streets on Saturday!
I’m NOT finished yet, ⬇️
Here’s my final question. If you are going to bend over for the Biden administration, and you know DAMN BLOODY WELL that he isn’t lowering the age of eligibility & he ain’t giving the elderly teeth, eyes or ears either,
Thank you, @PunchUpPod, for inviting me on to talk about the #RedBerets for Medicare for All and @WholeWashington! We are proud to have been the first two orgs to partner with @M4M4ALL — In 40 cities July 24th!
I would like to thank @iam4M4A for reaching out until and persisting until we decided you know what…ballot initiatives or no ballot initiative, we always have to make time to fight on all fronts for national improved Medicare for All, & I’m VERY grateful to @M4M4ALL for LEADING!