Celebrate the Dream is sponsored by ONE DC, EmpowerDC, Campaign for America’s Future, New Organizing Institute, National Organizer’s Alliance, Media Matters, Americans for American Values, and Jewish Funds for Justice. Further support is provided by the Arca Foundation, the CrossCurrents Foundation, and the Program on Inequality and Common Good, a project at the Institute for Policy Studies and the fiscal sponsor for this event. All donations are tax-deductible.
Spokespeople include Andre Banks, Simon Greer, Ari Ravin-Havt, Malia Lazu, Ibrahim Abdul Matin and Alexis McGill.
Project Coordinator Ericka Taylor, is backed up by a Leadership Committee that helps manage the planning and execution of the event, and includes: Malia Lazu, Sheila Coleman-Castells, Natalie Shear, Alex Lawson, Charlie Fink, John Sellers, Andrew Boyd, Marco Ceglie, and Dorian Lipscombe.
Celebrate the Dream is a project guided by The Other 98%.
The Other 98% is a political home for the silent majority of Americans who are tired of the corporate corruption of Washington and the Tea Party extremism that — wittingly or unwittingly — works to protect it.
We believe that to fight back, we need a massive new movement to kick corporate lobbyists out of DC, hold our elected officials accountable, and fix our democracy to make Washington work for the other 98% of us. We are middle class Americans tired of mortgaging our children’s futures so that we can give handouts to the wealthiest 2%. We are disenfranchised Tea Partiers outraged about Wall Street bailouts and a system that gives the biggest tax breaks to the largest global corporations. We are hard-working people fed up with seeing CEOs and lobbyists hijack our democracy to serve their own needs.
We are all Americans… and no matter what creed, color, religion or trade, we’re all in this together.
