Name of Event: We the People March on Washington

Date: Saturday, July 4th

Time: 12 noon (Weather conditions may call for change so contact organizers)

Starting Location: George Gordon Meade Memorial at intersection of Pennsylvania Ave and Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC

Website:  WTP250.us

More info: Contact We the People 250 March Action Lead Bill Moyer, Backbone Campaign Executive Director, 206-356-9980 | [email protected]

We the People Deploy EPIC 700-foot Constitution Preamble in DC Streets on July 4th, on Nation’s 250th birthday

We The People 250 is a coalition convening a march on Washington on July 4, 2026 to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bringing together movements and organizations from across the country, the march is a peaceful, people-powered stand against authoritarianism, demagoguery, and political violence. We the People is an affirmation of 250 years of struggle to bend this country toward justice and a clarion call that leaders in every party stop accommodating its demise. The coalition takes its name from the first three words of the Constitution: We the People.

Over 300 people will mobilize a 700 foot We the People banner, a symbol of our common purpose. This image, created by Backbone Campaign, has toured the country collecting tens of thousands of signatures, appeared in multiple marches and actions, and has become an icon of our collective resistance and resilience. For this event, new sections have been added to accommodate the signatures, messages and aspirations of event attendees and the public.

(For more on the history of this interactive banner see We the People story map.) 

Marchers will gather at George Gordon Meade Memorial. Due to the virtual lockdown of the nation’s capital, the route will be determined on the morning of the event. The public is invited, and organizers stress their commitment to a nonviolent, peaceful march. 

Bill Moyer, co-founder and director of Backbone Campaign, explained the purpose and timing of this pivotal action and how We the People is an appropriate symbol of resistance and resilience.

“We march in Washington DC to remind our nation of its common purpose - the contract we have with each other --have pledged allegiance, sworn oaths to protect and defend-- a contract for which countless lives have been sacrificed, wars have been fought, and social movement after social movement has championed - that all of us together constitute We the People. And that from this many, we are One Nation, indivisible pursuing a more perfect union - with liberty and justice for all.

“This event on July 4th is not a rally, there will be no speeches. Instead, this is an act of generosity, a gesture, an invitation to abandon the hatefulness, xenophobia and sycophancy to recommit to our common purpose, the universal principles of the Declaration of Independence and our shared mission as the Preamble of our Constitution so clearly articulates.”

Lisa Finn from Third Act DMV said, “‘We the People’ is our message and it is the core of our democracy and central to our beliefs. We are peacefully marching to let people know that we in Washington DC are not going to sit back and let this regime take over our Nation’s Capital and our country.”

The march is supported by a coalition of organizations, including 50501 DC, FLARE (For Liberation and Resistance Everywhere), the Revolutionary Black Panther Party, Remember Your Oath, Backbone Campaign, the Burning River Brigade, the Sons of Liberty, the National Handmaid Army, March 4 Democracy, Move to Amend, Resist the Coup, Fight Against Fascism, Third Act DC MD VA, 50501 Virginia, Political Drain, Indivisible Guilford County NC, Mass 50501, Tha Pantherz, 50501 Connecticut, DC Activist Street Band.

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