{"id":2159,"date":"2016-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/2159\/the-sound-of-democracy-awakening\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T04:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T04:40:33","slug":"the-sound-of-democracy-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-sound-of-democracy-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Democracy Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='p4descriptive_paragraph'>On Monday April 18, thousands marched and more than 300 people were arrested after a non-violent mobilization for democracy reforms on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building. Alexandra Dos Santos traveled from Brooklyn, New York to join the movement. This is her story. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-large p4featured_image'><img src='https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/90ab99d5-gp0stpqtl_web_size_with_credit_line-1.jpg' alt='Democracy Awakening Rally in Washington D.C.' \/><figcaption class='wp-element-caption'>More than 5,000 people marched with Democracy Awakening, calling on Congress to restore voting rights and get big money out of politics. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I watched the action unfold during the climax of Democracy Awakening last Monday \u2014 when <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/breaking-hundreds-risk-arrest-dc-capitol-hill-democracy-awakening-congress\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hundreds of activists risked arrest sitting in at the steps of the Capitol building<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 I heard two sounds collide. I heard the sound of their chants \u2014 loud, despite their distance from me \u2014 and the sound of music from two young men playing the drums on an empty water pail and a young woman strumming a guitar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The drums banged along to complement the excited chants of the activists on the steps, while the guitar served as an anchor, something to keep the atmosphere peaceful. Between the electricity of the voices and the fluidity of the instruments working together, the hot April day in the capital turned blissful.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Onward we march. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocracyAwakens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocracyAwakens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kc0Py0xszE\">pic.twitter.com\/Kc0Py0xszE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NAACP (@NAACP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAACP\/status\/722057057961185280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the people I stood with on the grass, behind the police barricade, were physically separated from those risking arrest on the other side, we were with them in other ways. Though we couldn\u2019t join hands with them, we could shout with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe love you, we love you,\u201d we chanted every time a new group was led away by police. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThank you, thank you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We made sure that every raised fist from the other side was met with cheers, claps, and words of appreciation. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These activists \u2014 who sat on the steps to bring attention to the havoc corporate money and attacks on voting rights are having on our democracy \u2014 were the heroes of the day. <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They deserved our fullest attention, and that\u2019s what they got.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe democracy movement is the broadest-based\/most united it\u2019s ever been&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oJGGX2QwaM\">https:\/\/t.co\/oJGGX2QwaM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocracyAwakens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocracyAwakens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1xJJAzR5bq\">pic.twitter.com\/1xJJAzR5bq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Public Citizen Democracy Campaign (@PC_Democracy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PC_Democracy\/status\/722415967226236929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The non-violence, the inclusiveness, the dedication: all of it was expressed through sound. The day reminded me of what it\u2019s like to be part of a whole, a feeling I haven\u2019t experienced with such intensity in a long time. It was when I heard the chant of a Greenpeace volunteer, intertwined with that of an NAACP member and joined by union workers and independent activists, that I felt what cooperation really was. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The boundaries that separated all of us dissolved. <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Annie Leonard said it best in a speech to the Greenpeace team as we prepared for the rally: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe can\u2019t isolate ourselves as a group. We are stronger together. It\u2019s not all about us,\u201d she said of the weekend ahead, \u201cit\u2019s about the movement.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And on Sunday, we got to hear from many of the leaders in this broad and diverse movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NAACP President Cornell William Brooks spoke with passion about those who came before us who fought and died for the right to vote. He invoked \u201cstay woke,\u201d imploring us to remain vigilantly aware of the flaws of the system, to be wry of those in power, to question the answers we\u2019re given, and find the truth ourselves. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CornellWBrooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CornellWBrooks<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocracyAwakens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocracyAwakens<\/a> have a wake up call for Congress\u2014and won&#39;t be ignored. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ET0a9G3fLV\">https:\/\/t.co\/ET0a9G3fLV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vcoCLvIWI6\">pic.twitter.com\/vcoCLvIWI6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenpeaceusa\/status\/722033951884357632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This awakening has happened for so many already, but there are still many sleeping \u2014 and many of them happen to be in Congress. They are those who turn a blind eye to injustice and who are invested in maintaining the status quo. They need to hear the piercing sound of an alarm clock. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like to think that we served as that alarm. <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And what does an alarm do when the groggy sleeper presses the \u2018snooze\u2019 button? It goes off again. And again. It goes off until that person is up with feet on the ground. The pro-democracy movement will continue to make noise long after the echoes of last week\u2019s action have died out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greenwire.greenpeace.org\/usa\/en\/groups\/greenpeace-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenpeace\u2019s New York volunteer group<\/a>, for one, is committed to keeping up the fight for climate justice and democracy reform. Immediately after Democracy Awakening, we talked about having our own days of non-violent direct action, organizing a festival to raise awareness, and collaborating with other groups to maximize our impact. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FixDemocracy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FixDemocracy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/democracyawakening?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#democracyawakening<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DoYourJob?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DoYourJob<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8rbNxVyWfs\">pic.twitter.com\/8rbNxVyWfs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alexandra Dos Santos (@AlexSandToes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexSandToes\/status\/722082305976758272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I settled back into our volunteer meeting two days after the march, I looked around the room as if for the first time. Something indescribable happened when I shared a voice with so many others: I didn\u2019t feel so small. Democracy Awakening has shown me that I\u2019m in good company in wanting to make a change on a grand scale; these fellow advocates for change stretch far beyond Greenpeace. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re growing in numbers, and every action, each meeting, serves as a step forward toward the change we need. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I got home from D.C., I made sure to keep talking about voting. It was the day of the New York primary, and I couldn\u2019t help but say to my friends, \u201cHappy New York Primary!\u201d It was because I felt privileged to be able to vote, something the martyrs of the voting rights movement lived and died for. Excitement ran through me as I took my first step toward electing a candidate who will represent me and my values. I felt a sense of pride after voting \u2014 young people like me are taking our democracy into our own hands, through the ballot box, through protest, and expressing our views. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I heard about how many <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/usuncut.com\/politics\/new-york-brooklyn-voter-purge\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">voters were turned away at the polls in Brooklyn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and reality struck hard. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s still so much work to do. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, there is still so much work, but we are not shying away from it. And we certainly have <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/democracy-awakening-happened-now\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enough inspiration and support to carry on this movement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even now, the music from Democracy Awakening still reverberates in my head: the speeches, the chants, and the conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sound of revolution is not easily forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52429\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52429\" class=\"wp-image-52429 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/a8c8d7c4-alexandra-dos-santos-2.png\" alt=\"Alexandra Dos Santos\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-52429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexandra Dos Santos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><i>Alexandra Dos Santos is a writer and activist from Long Island, New York, and a volunteer for Greenpeace in New York City. She is currently going to school for journalism at St. Joseph\u2019s College, Brooklyn. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The views represented here are her own. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I watched the action unfold during the climax of Democracy Awakening last Monday \u2014 when hundreds of activists risked arrest sitting in at the steps of the Capitol 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