""If DC goes and we're the nation's capital, everybody else is..." trailed off Niciah Mujahid, executive director of DC's Fair Budget Coalition. "Cooked!" the crowd roared. Mujahid was speaking at the annual People's Budget Forum, held this year on September 20, one block east of the White House. This event is just one example of how residents have come together and are standing up to defend their rights."
"Since the National Guard began to occupy the District of Columbia on August 11, the effects on the city's Black and people-of-color working-class communities have been significant. Residents have shared accounts of federal law enforcement targeting and harassing young people for things as mundane as metro fares, racially profiling and overpolicing Black and Latine residents, and brutally clearing encampments of the unhoused."
Federal National Guard forces began occupying Washington, D.C. on August 11 and have significantly impacted Black and working-class communities of color. Residents report federal law enforcement targeting and harassing young people over mundane matters like metro fares, racially profiling and overpolicing Black and Latine residents, and brutally clearing encampments of unhoused people. The administration framed the intervention as confronting crime, despite the city recording its lowest overall crime rate in over 30 years in 2024. Local groups such as Fair Budget Coalition, Center for Economic Democracy, Free DC, and DCFPI are organizing residents to resist federal overreach. Advocates nationwide are urged to strengthen solidarity to prevent replication in other cities.
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