BUILD & FIGHT C4

Build & Fight

It’s time we engage with politics on our own terms, completely independent of the two corporate parties.

The Build & Fight strategy emphasizes creating autonomous, cooperative institutions (Build) while simultaneously engaging in organized resistance against oppressive systems (Fight). We promote grassroots economic self-determination, dual power, and mass mobilization to challenge capitalism, white supremacy, and ecological destruction, fostering a just transition.

Rally at SCOTUS

Mission

Build & Fight C4 was created to engage in electoral politics from an explicitly transformational perspective, integrate political education into electoral work, and build a cross-sectoral democracy movement.

Democratize our Elections

  1. Publicly Funded Elections
  2. Proportional Representation
  3. Ranked Choice Voting
  4. Felony Re-enfranchisement
  5. Immigrant Voting Rights
  6. Same Day Voter Registration
  7. Election Day Holiday

Democratize the Economy

  1. Public Banking
  2. Participatory Budgeting
  3. Community Land Trusts
  4. Worker-Owned Cooperatives
  5. Municipal Energy
  6. Universal Basic Income

Democratize Society

  1. Abolish Corporate Constitutional Rights
  2. Advance Self-Rule Initiatives
  3. Create Public Advocacy “Sandboxes”
  4. Corporate “Three Strikes” and Charter Revocation
  5. Shareholder Votes for Political Donations

Our Work

We will use the full suite of tools available to us as a 501(c)4 to advance the above mission, including issuing a candidate questionnaire,

Candidate Questionnaire

  • We only endorse candidates that are committed to a left agenda and who pledge to never accept corporate contributions
  • ***Link coming soon
Tourist taking photo of a building
Windows of a building in Nuremberg, Germany

Non-Reformist Reforms

  • Learn more about this strategic framework
  • ***Link coming soon

“The United States is at a crossroads. As Antonio Gramsci recognized almost a hundred years ago, these interregnum periods are indeed times of monsters. But we can’t just fight what we’re against, lest we become monsters ourselves, so we also have to be for what we’re for and build that world at the same time.”

Johanna Epke

Founder, Build & Fight C4

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