Detroit Action

For #ThrowbackThursday, we are reminiscing about our time in Georgia, helping to flip the senate blue alongside Michigan Action, Rising Voices of Asian American Families and Michigan Asian American Progressives!

Laura Misumi, our managing director, wrote a phenomenal op-ed about the magic that happens when marginalized communities come together to create change.

"To that end, we brought around 15 volunteers down to Georgia to support the ongoing efforts of the New Georgia Project Action Fund, New South SuperPAC, and the Asian American Advocacy Fund PAC to elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the US Senate and end Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reign of obstruction. Just as we worked together to send Senator Peters back to Washington and flip Michigan back blue, we were confident and excited to volunteer our time for organizations who have deeply invested in multi-racial coalition building for progressive change in the New South."

Read more here on our new Medium account: https://detroitaction.medium.com/solidarity-won-the-georgia-senate-runoff-b8159dc93541