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Get Free intends to mobilize young people "against the Supreme Court's rulings this term". Nicole Carty is founder and Executive Director, Get Free. Anthony Vidal Torres is Director of Communications, Get Free.

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Get Free is building a youth-led movement to movement to repair past harms, remove ongoing barriers to equality, and realize a future where freedom is for all.

After three years of researching movement history, analyzing political conditions, and discerning campaigning interventions that can most propel us into a future where repair is common sense, we are delighted to be bringing this movement to life -- and not a moment too soon.

Join us in launching Get Free by becoming a Founding Donor. Your support will provide a critical anchor for Get Free, help us bring together our inaugural cohort of leaders, and pull off our first campaign to mobilize our generation against the Supreme Court's rulings this term.

'Organize and Align'

From a Webinar in August 2023 titled "MOVEMENT CALL: Debriefing SCOTUS Decisions and Organizing Forward to Combat Supremacy":

"Post SCOTUS Decisions, as #45 gains more popularity despite indictments, and with more and more extreme laws emerging that jeopardize our rights, threaten democracy, and back track our wins on racial and climate justice, we need a check in to learn about how various parts of the movement are organizing and mobilizing in this moment and beyond. This “Movement Call” will debrief and reflect on what has happened over the last few months and how we organize forward and align so that we can see more wins for our frontline, low-income, and Black and Brown communities.

• Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Indivisible
• Anthony Vidal Torres, Get Free
• Nicole Carty, Get Free
• Shelby Chestnut, Transgender Law Center
• Matthew Fletcher, Professor of Law at Michigan Law

Moderated by Jade Begay and Thalia Carroll-Cachimuel of NDN Collective

Irish Times Profile

From an article by Martin Wall of the Irish Times dated July 16, 2023:

Last Friday morning a group of young people gathered in the rotunda at the centre of the US Capitol in Washington. Three of them stepped forward, unfurled a banner and chanted “who will stand for the future?”.

Capitol police quickly intervened and the group said three people were arrested.

The three were members of a new organisation known as Get Free, which describes itself as a “Gen Z and millennial-led movement”.

It aims at mobilising young people in the United States against what it contends is “rising authoritarianism and supremacy pushed by the Republican Party nationwide and their political appointees in the federal courts”.

"The brief demonstration on Friday in the rotunda marked the end of three days of action and civil disobedience by the group in Washington.

On Wednesday young activists marched from the supreme court to the US Capitol where they staged a sit-in protest on a nearby lawn for two nights.

The organisation said the protest came in response to what it said were recent supreme court decisions overturning race-based affirmative action in admission to universities, permitting discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community and striking down moves by the Biden administration to provide student loan debt relief to about 40 million people.

The Get Free activists urged members of Congress to sign a pledge “to make freedom and equality real”.

It said it wanted to issue a “generational call to action to young people”.

Anthony Torres, communications director of Get Free told The Irish Times that the movement wanted “to repair past harms, remove ongoing barriers to equality and realise a future where freedom is for all”.

Asked if there were specific issues the group wanted politicians to pledge to address, Mr. Torres said: “The pledge is just for them to use all their powers as a legislator to repair the harms. That, of course, encompasses all of the different attacks that are happening on our freedoms, whether it is attacks on our reproductive freedom, our freedom to learn, our freedom to be ourselves. We absolutely talk about that. But the pledge itself is just committing to repair the damage that this faction is doing, in order to make freedom and equality real.”

Nicole Carty, executive director of the Get Free movement, said “our generation wants to live in a country where equality, freedom and justice are real for all, no matter our races, backgrounds or genders”.

“This terrifies the supremacist faction and their handpicked Maga (Make America Great Again) justices on the supreme court and they are desperately working to preserve their position [and] power.”

“From Maga-run state legislatures, governors’ mansions and House of Representatives to their handpicked justices on the supreme court, a wealthy and powerful few are manufacturing lies and laws to take away hard-won freedoms, erase past achievements like those of the civil rights movement, and greenlight discrimination.”

“They want to control our lives, sabotage our futures and rule for themselves. But we’re on to them. After the final supreme court rulings this June, we are issuing a generational call to action, mobilising young people to come to [Washington] DC and demand our members of Congress show which side they are on.”