{"id":16481,"date":"2021-01-09T19:26:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/2021\/01\/09\/connecticut-workers-crisis-response-statement-on-stop-the-steal\/"},"modified":"2021-01-09T19:26:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:26:42","slug":"connecticut-workers-crisis-response-statement-on-stop-the-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2021\/01\/09\/connecticut-workers-crisis-response-statement-on-stop-the-steal\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Workers Crisis Response statement on \u2018Stop the Steal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On January 6th, supporters of the Roger Stone crafted \u201cStop the Steal\u201d agenda invaded the Capitol\u00a0building in Washington DC. The protestors were demonstrating against the basic democratic functioning of the United States government. Whether or not consciously desired by individuals at the protests, the attempt to deny U.S. citizens the right to vote is in direct continuity with the policies of big business through organizations including American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real meaning of the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d protests, not just in DC but all over the country, is an attempt to invalidate the democratic rights of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples. The coming together of open fascists, paleoconservatives, \u201calt-right\u201d and traditional white nationalists, and COVID denialists in the streets reflects the attacks from government and industry on oppressed people, immigrants, and workers that have been carried out by both of the bosses\u2019 parties for far too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Connecticut, these far-right same forces were mobilized to denounce the election results and vaccine roll-out. The racist nature of these demands was shown clearly when a \u201cStop the Steal\u201d protester spit on a leader of the Black rights organization, Power Up CT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relatively hands-off state response to the anti-democratic \u201cStop the Steal\u201d demonstrators compared with Black Lives Matter protests fighting police terror and for expanding civil rights highlights the urgency to remove police unions from labor organizations and officers from schools. The general support of Chicago FOP President John Catanzara underscores the fact that police unions have no place in our fights for justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized labor has an obligation to ensure that anti-democratic, xenophobic, and other far right forces are not emboldened by Trump supporters theatrical penetration of the Capitol. Similarly, the labor movement must lead organized, unorganized, employed, and unemployed, in the fight to extend basic democratic rights to people who are currently disenfranchised. The only way to really defend democracy is for working people to fight to expand it by enfranchising current and formerly incarcerated people, ending the war on immigrants, and abolishing the Electoral College, which is a holdover from slavery.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connecticut Workers Crisis Response stands for a nationwide organizing call of labor and social justice groups to plan a series of actions around developing a workers\u2019 response to the pandemic and organizing our defenses against the possible expansions of right-wing violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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