📢 Unite Against Hate: Together we can Inspire Change!
🗽People Power United is a grassroots group of over 200,000+ members in all 50 states-powered by people like YOU. We champion progress and power to the people.
Hi friends! As we wrap up 2024 and set our sights on 2025, it's the perfect time to reflect and recommit to our values:
✨ Together we can inspire change!
People Power United is a grassroots group of over 200,000+ members in all 50 states-powered by people like YOU. We champion progress and power to the people.
We believe in change because we make change happen.
Here’s what makes us special:
💡 Grassroots energy: No fundraising, no constant emails asking for donations.
📢 Impact through action: We believe in the possibility of change and do the work to make it happen. We don’t just complain, we make change happen!
In this community, we will never stay silent in the face of hate or bigotry. We stand up and speak out against racism, xenophobia, islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and every form of discrimination that seeks to divide and harm.
We believe:
Everyone deserves dignity —with access to housing, healthcare, and education.
Everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive — regardless of age, race, sex, sexual preference, preferred pronouns, religion, or employment status.
Everyone deserves safety—clean air and water, and communities free from gun violence.
Join us to build People Power! Together, we can protect and empower those we love, champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people's will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.
The power is in your hands. Let’s fight for freedom over fascism—because our future depends on it.
What You Can Do
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Friends earlier today, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 men on federal death row to life without parole, marking a historic move against capital punishment.
The commutations align with the 2021 federal execution moratorium imposed by his administration. Biden excluded three men involved in terrorism and hate-fueled mass murders, including Robert Bowers, Dylann Roof, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In his statement, Biden condemned the death penalty, citing his experience as a public defender and elected official, and expressed concern about the incoming Trump administration potentially resuming executions.
Advocates and leaders, including Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative and Pope Francis, praised the decision as a critical step toward ending the death penalty. Biden’s actions, more extensive than those of his Democratic predecessors, come after previous inaction on abolishing the death penalty legislatively and amid heightened attention following Trump's reinstatement of federal executions during his first term.
We applaud the efforts of President Biden but also call on him to free Leonard Peltier.
People Power United stands unwaveringly against all forms of hatred and bigotry. Today, I invite you to join me in learning about the heartbreaking case of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist and member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, who has endured decades of unjust incarceration.
Peltier was charged and convicted for his alleged role in the tragic deaths of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout at Pine Ridge in South Dakota. Notably, two others involved were acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. Even a former FBI agent who worked on the case has admitted, "We were not able to prove that Mr. Peltier personally committed any offense on the Pine Ridge Reservation."
For 49 years, Leonard Peltier has languished in maximum-security prison, despite mounting evidence and voices asserting his innocence. Leaders of faith and human rights—including Pope Francis, Saint Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Coretta Scott King—have joined the chorus calling for his release. Even James H. Reynolds, the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Peltier, has acknowledged the injustice, stating that his "conviction and continued incarceration is a testament to a time and a system of justice that no longer has a place in our society."
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found that Peltier’s continued imprisonment is rooted in discrimination, concluding he "continues to be detained because he is Native American."
It’s time to right this wrong. Leonard Peltier’s case is not just a personal tragedy—it’s a stain on the ideals of justice we hold dear. Let us stand together and demand his release, sending a powerful message that justice, fairness, and human dignity must prevail in our society. Together, we can help correct this historic injustice.
Can you help us free Leonard Peltier?
Click here to Urge U.S. Parole Commission to Finally Free Leonard Peltier Now
People Power United Updates
Our group is growing by leaps and bounds! Folks understand that with love in our hearts and hard work, we will reclaim our nation from cruelty, chaos, and confusion. We are having fun making impactful changes in our community! In case you missed it, this past week was busy:
People Power United joins coalition efforts to urge President Biden to publish the ERA immediately
People Power United joins coalition efforts to Oppose the Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2023 (H.R. 115)
People Power United joins coalition efforts to pass the Michigan Voting Rights Act (If you are from Michigan, please call your state lawmakers and ask them to pass this bill)
The People's March
We all march for different reasons, but we march for the same cause: to defend our rights and our future.
If you believe that decisions about your body should remain yours, that books belong in libraries, not on bonfires, that healthcare is a right, not a privilege for the wealthy; if you believe in the power of free speech and protest to sustain democracy; or if you want an economy that works for the people who power it—then this march is for you.
The People’s March is about one thing: our power.
It’s a bold demonstration of the resilience of resistance:
-We march to unite the people who’ve been the backbone of resistance for generations—and to welcome even more -We march to remind civil servants they answer to us -We march to inspire, energize, and drive change long after the day is done.
This is our moment to remind Americans everywhere — where the power truly lives: with the people.
Let’s make it count.
📢The People’s March
Saturday, January 18, 2025, 10am to 3pm EST. Washington DC + other locations coming. Click here to signup.
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Are you passionate about standing up for freedom, defending our rights, and protecting democracy from the growing threat of fascism?
Join us to build People Power! Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people's will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.
Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)
People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry! Check out our 2023 recap post to see how impactful our scrappy People Power United group is!
People Power United is a group of community members that champions progressive values and power for the people.
Re Leonard Peltier: I believe the suggestion to write to the Parole Board is outdated. At this time we need to write/phone/email Biden (& Harris) to ask Biden to pardon Leonard Peltier. Time is short, let’s do this!