Standing up to the billionaire agenda: SURJ in conversation with Graham Platner
April 7 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm EDT
This year, we have the chance to fight not only to cut the legs out from under Trump’s billionaire agenda, but to take on the Democratic establishment that is refusing to stand up to him and fight for working-class people. SURJ is proud to put our endorsement behind candidates we believe will help implement that vision.
We helped our first endorsed candidate, Analilia Mejía, win her special election in a major upset in New Jersey. Next, we were excited to endorse the Sunrise Movement co-founder and longtime organizer Will Lawrence running for Congress in Michigan.
Now, we’re proud to put our endorsement behind Graham Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer, who is running in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, calling out the divide-and-conquer tactics of the billionaire class and the despicable actions of ICE, standing up for Palestinians, trans people, and the working class.
Join Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) in conversation with Graham Platner, a working-class oyster farmer running in the Democratic primary for Senate in Maine. SURJ has endorsed Platner because we believe that his vision for taking on the divide-and-conquer tactics of the billionaire agenda by building the multi-racial, working-class is exactly what we need right now. Not only to fight against MAGA, but also to stand up to mainstream Democrats who are failing to lead us towards a country that puts people above profit.
With SURJ leaders, we’ll discuss how his combat deployments in the Middle East shaped his anti-war politics, what it will take to divert white men from the far right online pipeline, and how we can work to expand our movement for racial and economic justice and stand up to the billionaire agenda.
