Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/26/2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
Senator McCormick's Philadelphia Office
Categories
About this event
This is an EMERGENCY!
Senate Protest Event in Philadelphia Continues This Week and For the Foreseeable Future.
Now called “Monday’s at McCormick’s” each Monday at noon – rain or shine – Here’s why:
We are living in a MAGA-republican Coup. We were warned. Now it’s here!
Here at home our democratic rights are being eroded and the Trump/Musk team is putting us all in danger. The limits of Executive power against the courts are being tested every day. If Trump decides to ignore the courts, there is very little they can do to enforce their decisions and unless Congress acts, it would be a true constitutional crisis. (And so far, Congress is controlled by the MAGA movement and the Democrats have not done enough to stand up and fight back.) It could even spiral down into outright civil war as competing factions and states careen between untested solutions to protect their own interests and those of their constituents and funders. There is real harm being done across the entire domestic sector. Layoffs, program cuts for the needy and for the average US resident, persecution of law abiding immigrants and students and other activists for simply speaking their mind and organizing constitutionally protected protest. Fear is also their weapon.
Our international role is being flipped on its head – yes, the US has always had a questionable foreign policy, providing aid and promoting democracy and human rights – to a degree – on the one hand, while at the same time invading other countries for the good of corporate profits and geopolitical dominance. Trump considers a policy to outright invade counties like Mexico and Greenland in violation of international law and to extend US power – A clear expression of Empire! Trump is considering power grabs not unlike those that the Nazi regime in Germany perpetrated in search of “Lebensraum”, (Living Space) a euphemism for territorial conquest. And they got away with it (for a while) because the people who stood up were either jailed, exiled or murdered. The rest were either regime supporters (Like the solid 30% base of the MAGA movement) or went along out of fear of retribution. We cannot let fear prevent us from standing up this time. History will judge us.
We now have a true oligarchy in the US and we must fight back!
The Trump administration’s illegal actions and relentless efforts to dismantle protections for vulnerable communities — both here in the U.S. and abroad— have made clear we are in the midst of an authoritarian takeover not unlike what has happened in Orban’s Hungary.
His plan to “Own Gaza” and move out Palestinians is NOT a plan to destroy Hamas and increase Israeli security – it is ETHNIC CLEANSING pure and simple. It’s a land grab. All for development rights and to secure a seaport access to natural gas deposits off the shore of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea. The Levant gas field includes the shores of historic Palestine (Israel and Gaza), Syria, Lebanon and, on the opposite side, the island of Cyprus. This field is estimated to contain about 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. So it will accelerate the climate emergency.
As we all know Trump/Musk plan to get rid of a number of government agencies that protect our health, livelihood and constitutional rights. – the EPA is on the hit list. The Department of Education is too. So, is the CDC, the NIH and many other important agencies that protect the US public.
As we all know – thousands have already been fired, causing chaos and havoc and real harm to both dedicated civil servants AND people served by life affirming programs voted on by the U.S. people and enacted, in most cases, by the U.S. Congress. The Administration may have authority to make staffing decisions, but as is the case with the Department of Education – many of these agencies can only be eliminated by acts of Congress – Trump has overstepped his legal authority.
Thankfully, the courts have, so far, acted as a check on much of Trumps clear and blatant abuses of executive power. But we cannot count on the courts, particularly the US Supreme court, which has been stacked by Trump appointees and ideologues friendly to executive power.
Resistance is NOT futile – it is essential.
We are launching “Monday’s at McCormick’s” each Monday at noon – rain or shine – we will assemble peaceably – as is our constitutional right – outside Senator McCormick’s Philadelphia office until Senator McCormick agrees to meet with us and support our demands: (These will change as conditions develop)
1 – Stop voting for legislation inspired by Trump’s project 2025 agenda – a plan to slash Medicaid, gut school lunch programs, and shut down nursing homes while handing more power to billionaires like Elon Musk.
2- Roll back Trump’s mean spirited and Unconstitutional funding pauses. Shutting down USAID is already killing people in need all over the World. Cuts to programs here in the US could do the same. Funding for these programs are up to the Congress and the US people to decide, not Trump!
That’s just for starters. Overall we want Senator McCormick to represent us all, not just his rich friends. We want Senator McCormick to DO HIS JOB! The stakes could not be higher. The administration is pushing an authoritarian agenda that threatens our democracy, our rights, and the well-being of millions here at home and around the planet.
We have the power to resist—and we must use every tool at our disposal to stop them.
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