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In 1776 Americans declared to the world that people are born with the rights to life and liberty, and the right to try for happiness too.
The Declaration of Independence is a seminal marker in the history of human and civil rights. It directly influenced, for example, France's 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
There is no better day than July 4 to assemble to celebrate the progress made in human and civil rights since 1776, but also to act to resist severe ongoing violations of human and civil rights in America and across the earth.
There is no better place than the Lincoln Memorial, so closely associated with the struggle for civil rights in the United States, to assemble and exchange ideas among the community of persons and organizations most concerned with human and civil rights, to draw strength and hope and courage from one another, and to reaffirm the basic rights of the Declaration.
Call for Assembly
People of conscience and goodwill concerned with human and civil rights, consider assembling July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Nuclear war would be the ultimate violation of the right to life. Persons and organizations concerned with arms control and the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons and other lethal technologies, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Climate change and global warming endanger the earth. Persons and organizations concerned about the existential threat posed by global warming, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
China, the largest nation on earth, torments its own citizens in Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and elsewhere and is engaged in pervasive Orwellian surveillance of its entire population. Persons and organizations concerned about Chinese violations of human rights, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Many other nations and governments are responsible for large-scale human and civil rights violations. Persons and organizations concerned about human rights violations in Russia, North Korea, Hungary, Myanmar, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, India, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, and many other nations, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Persons and organizations concerned with human and civil rights problems in the United States, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Persons and organizations concerned with extrajudicial police killings of people of color in the United States, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Persons and organizations concerned with judicial, police and prison reforms, and reform of sentencing disparities in the United States, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Persons and organizations concerned with voter suppression and extreme gerrymandering in the United States, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Persons and organizations concerned with human and civil rights violations stemming from U.S. border, immigration and refugee policy, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Persons and organizations concerned with pernicious, millenniums-old antisemitism and other forms of ethnic and religious bigotry, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Persons and organizations concerned with women's rights, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial. Women's rights are human rights, in the United States and worldwide.
Persons and organizations concerned with LGBTQ discrimination, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Persons and organizations concerned with labor and union rights, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial. Labor rights are human and civil rights, in the United States and worldwide.
Persons and organizations concerned with freedom of the press and the protection of journalists, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
Physicians and nurses, scientists and tech workers, professors, teachers, and students, lawyers and government workers, factory and office workers, workers of all stripes, soldiers and sailors, athletes, artists, musicians, writers and poets, all who are concerned with human and civil rights, assemble July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
People of conscience and goodwill concerned with human and civil rights, consider assembling July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.
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