Today marks the inauguration of Joe Biden as president and the end of the Trump administration, as well as two weeks since the white supremacist attacks of January 6. While we are glad to see the change in the White House and the inauguration of a new president, we also know that we will need to work to hold Joe Biden accountable to reverse the harm done over the last four years and implement policy that upholds the rights of working people and communities of color.<\/p>\n
We condemn the overt white supremacist acts on the US Capitol Building and state capitols on January 6, 2021. Donald Trump and several other Republican political leaders spurred these actions to perpetrate violence on the Capitol staff and congress members through their calls to stop the vote of the 2020 US presidential election. We want to hold space for the people who were impacted by the racist, anti-Indigenous, xenophobic, anti-semitic, transphobic, homophobic, and sexist imagery touted by these white supremacists. We denounce Capitol Police leadership, the off-duty police officers from Seattle to New York City and New York Fire Department members who acted alongside extreme right-wing paramilitary groups in the coup attempt. We stand in support of Congress\u2019 impeachment of Donald Trump, censuring of Representative Mo Brooks, and against the assertion that this election was fraudulent because the massive turnout of Black voters made it impossible for the Republican candidates to win.<\/p>\n