Black leaders launch counter to Project 2025 in battleground states
Project FREEDOM is aimed at mobilizing Black voters.
Beatrice Peterson | July 25, 2024 | ABC News |
A group of prominent Black Democratic leaders on Thursday unveiled Project FREEDOM, a new plan aimed at countering Project 2025, a controversial 922-page plan to overhaul the federal government led by a conservative Washington think tank and other politically aligned organizations.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly warn in campaign speeches that Donald Trump, if he wins a second term, wants to use the conservative blueprint to exert unprecedented presidential power and to do away with, among other things, the Department of Education and federal housing assistance and to cut or restrict the use of food stamps and other social welfare programs.Project FREEDOM, the leaders say, aims to provide voters with a substantial policy agenda for Democrats ahead of the November election in a clear and precise contrast to Project 2025.
Organizers say Project FREEDOM is based on four pillars: Freedom to Live, Freedom to Learn, Freedom to Vote and Freedom to Thrive.
Freedom to Live is based on the idea that the Black community should be able to "live freely and without fear," the group says. Organizers are calling for the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act which was stalled by Republicans in the U.S. Senate.
Tamika Mallory, co-founder of Until Freedom, an intersectional social justice organization, told ABC News, "I think that the way to really engage voters to go to the polls, is to make sure that they know, we're not just going for a celebratory vote. Instead, we're going to the polls with our bag of demands with us."