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shutdowndc

 

Training

Civil resistance means knowing how to confront power and how to protect each other. Find a training to prepare for action.

 
 

Sharing Skills

We protect us and that means sharing skills and know-how with one another. If you have something to contribute let us know what you can share and how you can share it.

 

Organizing

We host regular meetings where working groups report back, exchange info, and plan ahead for future actions.


What we’ve done together

 

Wake Up Calls

Save USPS

Climate Strike

who we are

#ShutDownDC came together during the summer of 2019 to respond to the Youth Climate Strikers’ Call to Action.

It is an organizing space where individuals and groups can come together to organize direct action.

As the 2020 election approaches we are making plans to rise up to confront the Trump administration's attacks on democracy.

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We recognize the urgency of this moment.

Our collective futures are at stake and we are committed to taking bold direct action, facing our fears, and pushing ourselves to make transformative change in this moment.

 
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We are committed to working together to create the world that we want to live in.

We do not want to reproduce the same violences we are committed to dismantling; thus, we are committed to anti-oppressive principles, transformative justice, and sustainable organizing.

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We recognize that many of the challenges that we are facing did not start when Trump was elected president and they will not end when he is forced from office.

We are not seeking a ‘return to normalcy,’ because we know that returning to ‘normal’ means returning to a system that was built on oppression. Rather, we see this as the time to rise up against the current crisis and move forward to dismantle the interlocking systems of oppression that have plagued this land for centuries.

 
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While we respect everyone's right to defend themselves and the people they love, we recognize that the police and military forces have a far greater capacity for violence than we could ever imagine.

Without making value judgments about the tactical approaches other people and organizations may choose to embrace, we plan to use the tools and tactical approaches that we have the capacity and expertise to implement, including disruptive direct action, mass mobilization, coordinated non-compliance, mutual aid, and other forms of civil resistance.

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Language Justice

#ShutDownDC recognizes that the revolution will not be mono-lingual. We recognize that we dream in different languages, we organize in different languages, and we plot revolution in different languages. Thousands of languages have been lost and are lost every year to neocolonialism, genocide, slavery and capitalism. In our diversity, we struggle to create spaces where all worlds fit. We encourage organizers and participants to show up in their full identities. For language justice, this means speaking/signing in the language that you feel most comfortable in, and we encourage you to help make #ShutDownDC a more multilingual space. Email us at accessibility@shutdowndc.org if you need interpretation/translation in a certain language or if you can offer your interpretation and translation services.