Refueling with Equal Exchange coffee, illustration adapted from the 1994 Equal Exchange Annual Report.
Equal Exchange and the Midterms: A First in 40 Years
Live Zoom Event Tuesday, September 1
4-5pm Eastern | 3-4pm Central | 1-2pm Pacific
As a democratic organization of scale, historically and still non-partisan, Equal Exchange will engage in this fall’s elections for the first time in our 40-year history. Concretely, we will be engaging our supporters to defeat election deniers—candidates who would seek to deny us our right to vote and be counted. To us, “election deniers” are candidates who accept election results when they win but claim fraud and reject results when they lose. In this case, our reference point is the 2020 election. We will focus our efforts in a few key races where our network is strongly positioned to engage on the ground. So far, we’ve selected races in PA, NC, and WI.
The U.S. democratic system is under sustained, ongoing, historical threat, but many of our major institutions (media, political parties, corporations, universities) have shown themselves to be unwilling or unable to do the task of defending democracy. Smaller institutions therefore need to do this work.
Please join us for this important webinar to learn what is driving this decision, how we will be engaging, and how you can join our efforts to preserve U.S. democracy.