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Stand Up! worked in coalition with
grassroots groups, churches, and individuals to mobilize over 200
volunteers to travel to North Carolina to help defeat then-U.S.
Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-NC) in 1998, because of his role in
the congressional takeover of the DC government;
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Stand Up! is a winner of the
United Nations Association of the National Capital Area’s
“Human Rights Community Award;”
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Stand Up! worked in coalition with
Cease Fire-Don’t Smoke the Brothers, the NAACP/DC,
the American Friends Service Committee-MAR/Washington, DC
Peace and Economic Justice Program, the Near Northeast
Citizens Against Crime and Drugs, the National Black Police
Association, and the Umoja Party to oppose attempts to
overturn DC’s law against the death penalty;
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Stand Up! continues to work with
groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union of the National
Capital Area and Empower DC to oppose Congress’ attempt
to overturn DC’s gun control laws;
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Stand Up! organized a Memorial
Day service to call attention both to local veterans who fought
for democracy abroad while being denied equal rights at home, as
well as to the neglected DC World War I Memorial where the service
was held;
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Stand Up! organizes an on-going
“FREE DC Budget” education, outreach, and direct action
campaigns to end congressional control and review of DC’s local
budget;
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Stand Up! volunteers
collected over 1,000 signatures in DC and Arlington, Va. in
favor of a “FREE DC budget” and presented them to Congress. The
unwanted attachments to DC’s budget were reduced from over 100 to
less than 40 – as we continue to work to end congressional review;
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Stand Up! worked in coalition with
Democracy First, AFSC-MAR, and the DC Statehood
Green Party to successfully lobby the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meeting in DC, to
condemn the U.S.’s denial of equal voting representation for DC
residents;
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Stand Up! members served as
plaintiffs in the historic Adams, et al. v. Bush (formerly
Clinton) lawsuit for local self-determination, argued by the late
attorney George S. LaRoche;
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Stand Up! members served as
defendants in many successful DC democracy protest trials;
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Stand Up! organized against the
federal imposition of school vouchers;
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Stand Up! challenged the
undemocratic “Control Board” and its decisions, filing an
amicus brief to support the DC Council’s lawsuit
challenging the Control Board’s closing of DC General Hospital;
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Stand Up! helped organize to win
the 82% District-wide victory for Referendum A for an elected
District Attorney for DC – which is still awaiting
congressional action;
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Stand Up! worked in partnership
with the Close Up Foundation’s Great American Cities
Programs to help urban public school students learn ways to effect
change in their school and communities;
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Stand Up! helped organize the
Democracy Action Project’s Democracy Summer which
brought high school students from all over the country to lobby
their Congress members on important issues, including full
democracy for DC residents;
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Stand Up! helped organize the
“Just Vote No” campaign against legislation that ended a
fully elected public school board;
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Stand Up! advocated to bring the
“First-in-the-Nation” Presidential Primary with the DC
Democratic State Committee to the District to focus national
attention on DC’s lack of equal rights;
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Stand Up! continues to oppose
the war in Iraq – exposing the hypocrisy of sending DC members
of the armed services to “fight for democracy” when they do not
have democracy in their own home town;
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Stand Up! marched in every DC
Emancipation Day parade observing the end of chattel slavery in
DC – using our slogan “First Freed-Last Free,” and
co-sponsored teach-ins with the DC Emancipation Day Celebration
Committee, African American Holiday Association,
AFSC-MAR, and Empower DC;
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Stand Up! sponsored several
candidates’ forums – including one for mayoral candidates with
the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia;
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Stand Up! – in coalition with
the DC Black History Celebration Committee and the DCDSC
– held a gala reception in honor of Dr. Dorothy I. Height, to
thank her and the National Council of Negro Women for
their extraordinary commitment to Stand Up! and a FREE DC!
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Stand Up! continues to lead
the opposition to the “DC One Vote” legislation in
Congress to give the District a single vote in the U.S. House of
Representatives (and none in the U.S. Senate) while also giving an
additional seat to Utah with an extra electoral college vote and the
abolition of the position of DC Statehood Representative. Stand Up!
continues to point out how such “representation” would continue
to leave the District in a position of inequality while leading to a
dead-end for full representation and democratic rights; and
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Stand Up! continues the mission
for full democracy for DC residents – including
recognition of our long-standing petition for statehood.
