Sunrise logo (yes, the outfit has its own logo) via Wikipedia
Michelle Malkin is now blogging at UNZ.com. In her column today, “Sunrise Movement: the Riotous Left's Pot-Banging Brats,” Ms. Malkin names names and puts the endless rioting and violence in context. She begins:
Wake up. The “community organizers”
of the left are in full wildebeest mode. Now is not the time for bending down,
rolling over or playing nice. From now until Election Day (and likely until the
end of the year), you can expect screaming banshees carrying identical,
preprinted signs to turn up in the middle of the night at the private homes of
elected politicians, Donald Trump campaign and administration officials, law
enforcement officers, judges and conservative leaders.
This is not conjecture. A
nationwide agitation force milked the dead body of George Floyd to create the
current anarchotyranny. Now, in keeping with her dying wish, the mob will use
the fresh corpse of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to try to bully Republicans into submission
over President Donald Trump’s rightful Supreme Court nomination. The ultimate
goal: obstruction and delegitimization of Trump’s reelection.
On cue, a bunch of demonstrators
all in matching yellow-and-black T-shirts from the Sunrise Movement turned out
in front of South
Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s house in Washington, D.C., this
weekend, banging pots, pans and buckets. The disrupters also blasted airhorns,
pointed strobe lights at the windows and crashed cymbals to punctuate their
collective fit over Ginsburg’s passing. Not a single one was arrested for
disturbing the peace.
One organizer shrieked at Graham
(who was not at home at the time): “You are an old white man desperately
clinging to power that you can’t hold onto much longer because we’re coming for
it. And in the meantime, you are not filling that Supreme Court seat. Not on
our watch. The people will decide who fills that seat. No justice, no sleep!”
Another threatened: “Anyone who is
seeing this can do the same thing to your representative, can do the same thing
learning about how to hold them accountable. Make sure they know if they do
some evil (expletives), they know there will be consequences for it.”
Shrieker Number One concluded: “We
will vote, we will organize, we will strike, and we will keep showing up in
your goddamned driveway at the crack of dawn to let you know that WE ARE WIDE
AWAKE!”
Who is the Sunrise Movement? It’s as organic as Spam and as genuine as AstroTurf. This full-time rent-a-mob is an adjunct of the Sierra Club (annual budget: $100 million; top donors: Michael Bloomberg, George Soros). The Sierra Club provided five-figure initial seed grants to Sunrise’s educational arm, as well as Beltway office space. Other original funders of Sunrise: The Rockefeller Foundation and Wallace Global Fund (which has also contributed to the George Soros-subsidized Tides Center, Color of Change cancel culture guerilla warriors, and far-left legal policy groups Alliance for Justice and the Brennan Center for Justice).
The Sunrise Movement’s co-founder, Evan Weber, is a former Occupy Wall Street organizer. Two others, Sara Blazevic and Varshini Prakash, are Green New Deal zealots and Bernie Sanders activists who teamed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to push the Democrats even further left. Prakash serves as an advisory board member of Climate Power 2020 along with Soros-funded Center for American Progress head John Podesta, former Obama administration environmental czar Carol Browner, former Obama administration science czar John Holdren, former Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry, former Obama administration EPA head Gina McCarthy, and former Obama administration U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.
Ms. Malkin's full column is here. And guess what? Here's from the Sunrise Movement's website:
Sunrise is a movement to stop
climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We currently
have 8 hubs in Ohio looking for volunteers including: Athens, Canton,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Kent, Oberlin and Youngstown. See website for
contact information for each hub.
It sounds so benign.
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