{"id":230542,"date":"2026-11-13T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/dozens-of-protesters-arrested-after-staging-sit-in-at-chuck-schumers-dc-office-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:38:08","slug":"dozens-of-protesters-arrested-after-staging-sit-in-at-chuck-schumers-dc-office-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/dozens-of-protesters-arrested-after-staging-sit-in-at-chuck-schumers-dc-office-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of protesters arrested after staging sit-in at Chuck Schumer\u2019s DC office – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protesters with the Sunrise Movement youth climate group push for new Senate leadership and ending the filibuster
Dozens of protesters with the Sunrise Movement, a youth climate organization, were arrested after staging a sit-in inside Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s Washington DC<\/a> office Thursday
According to the Sunrise Movement, 54 people were arrested, among a few hundred who joined the protest from across the country, including some from New York, which Schumer represents. On its Instagram, the group is fundraising $24,000 to cover the bail fees and any potential legal fees for those arrested.
Capitol police were not immediately available for comment.
In a clip on the Sunrise Movement\u2019s Instagram<\/a>, with over 40,000 likes at the time of publication, young people sitting on the office floor chanted: \u201cHey hey, ho ho, Schumer has got to go!\u201d Protesters, including children, held signs reading \u201cThe filibuster kills,\u201d \u201cStop the climate crisis,\u201d and \u201cSchumer: Step up or step aside.\u201d
As Senate Democrats prepare to vote on a majority leader for the upcoming Congress, they\u2019re wrestling with how to navigate what feels like a clear mandate for anti-establishment voices from communities historically underrepresented in federal office<\/a> to step into leadership. Several Democratic senators have said they will not support Schumer for the position, including Bernie Sanders<\/a>, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, as well as several members of the freshman class<\/a>, like Michigan\u2019s Abdul El-Sayed and South Carolina\u2019s Annie Andrews.
Some have backed Maryland\u2019s Chris Van Hollen<\/a> as a challenger, including Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota\u2019s senator-elect, and 50501<\/a>, one of the major groups behind the No Kings protests.
The protesters on Thursday delivered a letter to Schumer arguing, per the group\u2019s press release, that \u201cafter a collective decade of Schumer leadership it was time for change\u201d and demanding Democrats prioritize ending the filibuster when Congress returns in January.
They also dropped the letters at the offices of every Senate Democrat. According to the Sunrise Movement\u2019s campaigns director, Kidus Girma, Thursday\u2019s action is one of several planned over the next two weeks targeting Senate Democrats and \u201cdemanding they actually take action\u201d.
The group has regularly protested against politicians since first making headlines in 2018 with another sit-in targeting then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, and helped launch calls for a Green New Deal alongside congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was part of that 2018 sit-in. In the eight years since, Sunrise has supported progressive candidates, and last week, a Sunrise co-founder, Will Lawrence, 36, won his race for a Michigan US House seat<\/a> after campaigning against datacenters.
\u201cYoung people went to Senator Chuck Schumer\u2019s office to demand a Senate majority leader that would fight for the young people who elected a historic blue wave last week. They\u2019re demanding change, not the same old, same old,\u201d said Girma over the phone.
According to early data from Tufts University\u2019s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (Circle), which monitors youth civic engagement, the 3 November elections<\/a> saw the second-highest youth turnout for a midterm election in 30 years \u2013 following only the 2018 midterms in Donald Trump\u2019s first term.
\u201cChuck Schumer has been in office longer than I have been alive, and I\u2019m 31 years old,\u201d Girmus said. \u201c[Young people] didn\u2019t vote for a return to the Biden years, but rather a change.\u201d
This isn\u2019t the first sit-in of Schumer\u2019s office organized by young people to happen this week. On Tuesday, three protesters were arrested during a protest by the youth advocacy group Get Free, who were there saying voters \u201cneed Democratic leaders to meet the moment lest we repeat history again\u201d, according to executive director Nicole Carty.
Last week, Girma said the election outcome \u201cshows that young people deeply, deeply care about their futures and the current government \u2013 but also, they\u2019re making clear demands around how to fix it\u201d.<\/p>\n

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