| From | Ana Maria Archila <[email protected]> |
| Subject | Impact of Tax Act, Holding Police Accountable, and more! |
| Date | January 30, 2020 7:10 PM |
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SAVE THE DATE:
March 31, 2020
6:30-9:30pm
Busboys and Poets
[]([link removed]) PURCHASE TICKETS []([link removed])
Mark your calendars and buy a ticket! [The Guiding Light Awards: Washington, DC]([link removed]), is coming up on Tuesday, March 31, 2020! Join over 300 philanthropists, frontline organizers, strategic partners and allies of the progressive community at [Busboys and Poets]([link removed]) from 6:30–9:30 pm as we come together for an evening of fun, food, and festivities – and to plan for our most important fight yet.
We’re honoring exceptional individuals, campaigns, and organizations, like [Ibram X. Kendi]([link removed]) and [Andy Shallal]([link removed]), for their role in supporting the movement. [Please join us as we lift up courageous leaders ––progressive pioneers and disruptors, champions for racial equity, economic and gender justice, and protectors of a participatory and popular democracy.]([link removed])
[]([link removed]) PURCHASE TICKETS
[CPD’s Guiding Light Awards]([link removed]) is a chance to come together to celebrate our work. [Tickets start at $180. Reserve your seat today!]([link removed])
Please contact Beth Slade at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]?subject=Guiding%20Light%20Awards%3A%20Washington%2C%20DC) for more information or to become a host or sponsor the event.
TOP PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
[Highlights from a Year on the Housing Beat]([link removed])
Next City, 12/26/2019
"In the spring, the Right to the City Alliance, PolicyLink, and the Center for Popular Democracy co-published a report arguing that “it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent control to protect tenants from skyrocketing rents and displacement.†Implementing rent control nationwide would stabilize 42 million households, the groups wrote.†[Read more.]([link removed])
[Progressives Help Progressives—Across City Lines]([link removed])
The American Prospect, 01/13/2020
“In 2012, the Center for Popular Democracy, a national organization that sponsors and supports local activist groups, was just getting off the ground. This was a time when driving progressive change from Congress looked increasingly unrealistic. As Republicans also dominated most state legislatures, activists turned their attention to cities—where diversity reigned, where minorities and millennials were often potent progressive blocs, and leaders saw their best hope for turning groundbreaking ideas into law.†[Read more.]([link removed])
[Local politicians decided to have police, policies evaluated. Results were shocking.]([link removed])
USA Today, 01/16/2019
“A new investigation released last month by the Center for Popular Democracy and Local Progress — an organization headed by local elected officials, including us, who are working to implement national social justice reform — shows that none of our cities is properly holding police accountable or implementing reforms. And the evaluation, we fear, points to a larger, nationwide trend.†[Read more.]([link removed])
[Trump Administration Places Prohibitive Restrictions On Disaster Relief for Puerto Rico]([link removed])
Colorlines, 01/16/2020
“Along with many Congressional Democrats and Puerto Rican officials who oppose how Trump is handling the crisis, this week, hundreds of Puerto Rican community leaders and allies—including the The Center for Popular Democracy, Power 4 Puerto Rico, CASA and other grassroots organizations—demanded that the federal government release the more than $18 billion of disaster aid relief that is due to the island.†[Read more.]([link removed])
[ READ MORE NEWS FROM DECEMBER & JANUARY](#News)
AFFILIATE HIGHLIGHT: Make the Road NJ Celebrates Major Victories
CPD affiliate, Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ), kicked off 2020 with a number of significant victories for immigrants, workers, and education justice! On December 19, after a five year fight, MRNJ along with coalition partners at Let's Drive NJ, won their campaign to expand access to drivers licenses to all, regardless of immigration status, making New Jersey the 15th state to do so. Governor Phil Murphy signed the bill into law in his office in Elizabeth, surrounded by members of MRNJ and other partners in a raucous celebration. [Watch Governor Murphy's powerful signing statement here!]([link removed])
Two summers ago, MRNJ members stood [shoulder to shoulder]([link removed]) with [Toys R US workers]([link removed]) as a wave of bankruptcies and mass layoffs hit retail workers across the country. Wall Street billionaires' greed and recklessness left thousands of families in economic crisis while CEOs and private equity firms received million-dollar bonuses. [Read more about MRNJ's victories on our blog.]([link removed])
CPD AFFILIATES
Take Action for Puerto Rico
Since late December, [a series of major earthquakes]([link removed]) shook the southwest area of the archipelago of Puerto Rico causing an island-wide blackout, leaving thousands homeless, and causing structural damage to hundreds of buildings, schools, and roads. To this day, in the towns of Guanica, Peñuelas, Guayanilla, Arroyo, Yauco, Guayama, Ponce and others, an estimated four thousand people are housed in shelters, and thousands more have pitched tents in their backyards.
In the aftermath, CPD quickly mobilized with the [Maria Fund]([link removed]), to move rapid response funding to an initial [6 community groups]([link removed]). On the Island, CPD affiliate Taller Salud is helping to channel much needed resources in the south. [You can support these efforts by donating here.]([link removed])
Organizers knew that even more action was needed to make sure Puerto Rico received every resource it could to rebuild. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
[]([link removed])
LOCAL PROGRESS
Releases Analysis of Policing in 12 Cities
In 2018, Local Progress launched [Reform/Transform: A Policing Policy Toolkit]([link removed]), a resource designed to help elected officials, policymakers, and organizers evaluate the strength of policing policies, based on a set of standardized criteria and best practices. In December 2019, Local Progress worked with its members to follow up with an [analysis of policing policies in 12 cities]([link removed]) on four of the toolkit’s policy areas: ICE collaboration, use of force, independent oversight, and police spending versus other priorities.
The findings showed that, across the four policy areas, all 12 cities can and must do more to strengthen police accountability. However, this work is also very dynamic –– even as we publish these results, policy changes and budget negotiations are underway across the country. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
NEW CPD REPORT Reveals Tax Act Hurts Workers
In December 2019, CPD and the Economic Policy Institute, published a report ["Still Terrible at Two: The Trump Tax Act Delivered Big Benefits to the Rich and Corporations But Nearly None for Working Families."]([link removed]) On the two year anniversary of Trump's tax act, the report uses government data to show there has been no increase in wages for working people and no increase in business investment--all while corporate revenues have plummeted and corporate stock buybacks have soared.
Overall, the paper finds that the TCJA - one of the largest overhauls of the tax system in the last 50 years - enacted sweeping changes to benefit corporations and wealthy individuals while the interests and priorities of working families were ignored. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
JUSTICE TRANSFORMATION: 'Freedom Lab' Held in Nashville, TN
CPD’s Justice Transformation team kicked off the new year with a weekend of mobilization and power building. The group wrapped their second Freedom Lab in Nashville alongside Law for Black Lives and PolicyLink. Building off the [inaugural convening]([link removed]) last year in Milwaukee, it was a powerful event with nearly 70 people in the room representing organizers and activists from all across Tennessee, as well as North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and some other folks across the country. The group also included a strong delegation from CPD affiliate [New Georgia Project]([link removed]).
The cohort spent two days strategizing on divest/invest decriminalization campaigns, including deep dives into budget analysis, advocacy tactics, participatory budgeting and communications strategies. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
PLANNING AHEAD: CPD Affiliate Executive Directors Convene to Strategize for 2020 and Beyond
Earlier this month, Executive Directors and key staff from more than 30 CPD affiliates met in Stony Point, New York to plan for 2020 and beyond. They spent two and a half days connecting and aligning a network-wide strategy, and the agenda was packed: they discussed racial capitalism, made plans for shared transformational legislative goals, how to foster unity and trust across the CPD Network, how to actualize our strategic vision as we head into another challenging year. Collectively, our network is working to build a base of one million people, and it was exciting to dig in on the path to success as a group.
Further, we were able to do important collaborative planning, learn from each other, share ideas and resources, and identify key next steps for the network as a whole to continue working towards building a stronger, more just world. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
[]IN THE NEWS
Continued From Above
[Agency’s reversal on discrimination protections latest in ‘Trump’s war on workers’]([link removed])
Maine Beacon, 12/24/2019
[Congressional Oversight Claimed Important Victories in 2019. Here Are the Top 5.]([link removed])
Truthout.org, 12/26/2019
[Pete Buttigieg's race problem is an overblown media creation he can overcome — so long as he doesn't screw up his response to it]([link removed])
Business Insider, 12/28/2019
[How Milwaukee Activists Are Organizing to Move Money from Cops to Community]([link removed])
Next City, 01/03/2020
[Aurora wades through efforts to support refugees and immigrants]([link removed])
The Sentinel Colorado, 01/07/2020
[Who Won the Debate? Experts Weigh In]([link removed])
The New York Times, 01/15/2020
[‘Cancel the debt’: Wall Street sabotages Puerto Rico’s earthquake recovery by hoarding $8 billion cash reserve]([link removed])
FrontPage, 01/15/2020
[Politicians not listening? Flexing your consumer muscle can get results.]([link removed])
The Boston Globe, 01/16/2020
[18 progressive groups sign unity pledge amid Sanders-Warren feud]([link removed])
The Hill, 01/16/2020
[Opinion: Victory Is Within Reach For The Left. Keep Your Eyes On The Prize.]([link removed])
BuzzFeed News, 01/17/2020
[Al Punto con Jorge Ramos]([link removed])
Univision, 01/19/2020
[How to Sway An Election Even If You Can’t Vote]([link removed])
Seventeen, 01/21/2020
[CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL CPD NEWS MENTIONS]([link removed])
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SAVE THE DATE:
March 31, 2020
6:30-9:30pm
Busboys and Poets
[]([link removed]) PURCHASE TICKETS []([link removed])
Mark your calendars and buy a ticket! [The Guiding Light Awards: Washington, DC]([link removed]), is coming up on Tuesday, March 31, 2020! Join over 300 philanthropists, frontline organizers, strategic partners and allies of the progressive community at [Busboys and Poets]([link removed]) from 6:30–9:30 pm as we come together for an evening of fun, food, and festivities – and to plan for our most important fight yet.
We’re honoring exceptional individuals, campaigns, and organizations, like [Ibram X. Kendi]([link removed]) and [Andy Shallal]([link removed]), for their role in supporting the movement. [Please join us as we lift up courageous leaders ––progressive pioneers and disruptors, champions for racial equity, economic and gender justice, and protectors of a participatory and popular democracy.]([link removed])
[]([link removed]) PURCHASE TICKETS
[CPD’s Guiding Light Awards]([link removed]) is a chance to come together to celebrate our work. [Tickets start at $180. Reserve your seat today!]([link removed])
Please contact Beth Slade at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]?subject=Guiding%20Light%20Awards%3A%20Washington%2C%20DC) for more information or to become a host or sponsor the event.
TOP PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
[Highlights from a Year on the Housing Beat]([link removed])
Next City, 12/26/2019
"In the spring, the Right to the City Alliance, PolicyLink, and the Center for Popular Democracy co-published a report arguing that “it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent control to protect tenants from skyrocketing rents and displacement.†Implementing rent control nationwide would stabilize 42 million households, the groups wrote.†[Read more.]([link removed])
[Progressives Help Progressives—Across City Lines]([link removed])
The American Prospect, 01/13/2020
“In 2012, the Center for Popular Democracy, a national organization that sponsors and supports local activist groups, was just getting off the ground. This was a time when driving progressive change from Congress looked increasingly unrealistic. As Republicans also dominated most state legislatures, activists turned their attention to cities—where diversity reigned, where minorities and millennials were often potent progressive blocs, and leaders saw their best hope for turning groundbreaking ideas into law.†[Read more.]([link removed])
[Local politicians decided to have police, policies evaluated. Results were shocking.]([link removed])
USA Today, 01/16/2019
“A new investigation released last month by the Center for Popular Democracy and Local Progress — an organization headed by local elected officials, including us, who are working to implement national social justice reform — shows that none of our cities is properly holding police accountable or implementing reforms. And the evaluation, we fear, points to a larger, nationwide trend.†[Read more.]([link removed])
[Trump Administration Places Prohibitive Restrictions On Disaster Relief for Puerto Rico]([link removed])
Colorlines, 01/16/2020
“Along with many Congressional Democrats and Puerto Rican officials who oppose how Trump is handling the crisis, this week, hundreds of Puerto Rican community leaders and allies—including the The Center for Popular Democracy, Power 4 Puerto Rico, CASA and other grassroots organizations—demanded that the federal government release the more than $18 billion of disaster aid relief that is due to the island.†[Read more.]([link removed])
[ READ MORE NEWS FROM DECEMBER & JANUARY](#News)
AFFILIATE HIGHLIGHT: Make the Road NJ Celebrates Major Victories
CPD affiliate, Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ), kicked off 2020 with a number of significant victories for immigrants, workers, and education justice! On December 19, after a five year fight, MRNJ along with coalition partners at Let's Drive NJ, won their campaign to expand access to drivers licenses to all, regardless of immigration status, making New Jersey the 15th state to do so. Governor Phil Murphy signed the bill into law in his office in Elizabeth, surrounded by members of MRNJ and other partners in a raucous celebration. [Watch Governor Murphy's powerful signing statement here!]([link removed])
Two summers ago, MRNJ members stood [shoulder to shoulder]([link removed]) with [Toys R US workers]([link removed]) as a wave of bankruptcies and mass layoffs hit retail workers across the country. Wall Street billionaires' greed and recklessness left thousands of families in economic crisis while CEOs and private equity firms received million-dollar bonuses. [Read more about MRNJ's victories on our blog.]([link removed])
CPD AFFILIATES
Take Action for Puerto Rico
Since late December, [a series of major earthquakes]([link removed]) shook the southwest area of the archipelago of Puerto Rico causing an island-wide blackout, leaving thousands homeless, and causing structural damage to hundreds of buildings, schools, and roads. To this day, in the towns of Guanica, Peñuelas, Guayanilla, Arroyo, Yauco, Guayama, Ponce and others, an estimated four thousand people are housed in shelters, and thousands more have pitched tents in their backyards.
In the aftermath, CPD quickly mobilized with the [Maria Fund]([link removed]), to move rapid response funding to an initial [6 community groups]([link removed]). On the Island, CPD affiliate Taller Salud is helping to channel much needed resources in the south. [You can support these efforts by donating here.]([link removed])
Organizers knew that even more action was needed to make sure Puerto Rico received every resource it could to rebuild. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
[]([link removed])
LOCAL PROGRESS
Releases Analysis of Policing in 12 Cities
In 2018, Local Progress launched [Reform/Transform: A Policing Policy Toolkit]([link removed]), a resource designed to help elected officials, policymakers, and organizers evaluate the strength of policing policies, based on a set of standardized criteria and best practices. In December 2019, Local Progress worked with its members to follow up with an [analysis of policing policies in 12 cities]([link removed]) on four of the toolkit’s policy areas: ICE collaboration, use of force, independent oversight, and police spending versus other priorities.
The findings showed that, across the four policy areas, all 12 cities can and must do more to strengthen police accountability. However, this work is also very dynamic –– even as we publish these results, policy changes and budget negotiations are underway across the country. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
NEW CPD REPORT Reveals Tax Act Hurts Workers
In December 2019, CPD and the Economic Policy Institute, published a report ["Still Terrible at Two: The Trump Tax Act Delivered Big Benefits to the Rich and Corporations But Nearly None for Working Families."]([link removed]) On the two year anniversary of Trump's tax act, the report uses government data to show there has been no increase in wages for working people and no increase in business investment--all while corporate revenues have plummeted and corporate stock buybacks have soared.
Overall, the paper finds that the TCJA - one of the largest overhauls of the tax system in the last 50 years - enacted sweeping changes to benefit corporations and wealthy individuals while the interests and priorities of working families were ignored. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
JUSTICE TRANSFORMATION: 'Freedom Lab' Held in Nashville, TN
CPD’s Justice Transformation team kicked off the new year with a weekend of mobilization and power building. The group wrapped their second Freedom Lab in Nashville alongside Law for Black Lives and PolicyLink. Building off the [inaugural convening]([link removed]) last year in Milwaukee, it was a powerful event with nearly 70 people in the room representing organizers and activists from all across Tennessee, as well as North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and some other folks across the country. The group also included a strong delegation from CPD affiliate [New Georgia Project]([link removed]).
The cohort spent two days strategizing on divest/invest decriminalization campaigns, including deep dives into budget analysis, advocacy tactics, participatory budgeting and communications strategies. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
PLANNING AHEAD: CPD Affiliate Executive Directors Convene to Strategize for 2020 and Beyond
Earlier this month, Executive Directors and key staff from more than 30 CPD affiliates met in Stony Point, New York to plan for 2020 and beyond. They spent two and a half days connecting and aligning a network-wide strategy, and the agenda was packed: they discussed racial capitalism, made plans for shared transformational legislative goals, how to foster unity and trust across the CPD Network, how to actualize our strategic vision as we head into another challenging year. Collectively, our network is working to build a base of one million people, and it was exciting to dig in on the path to success as a group.
Further, we were able to do important collaborative planning, learn from each other, share ideas and resources, and identify key next steps for the network as a whole to continue working towards building a stronger, more just world. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
[]IN THE NEWS
Continued From Above
[Agency’s reversal on discrimination protections latest in ‘Trump’s war on workers’]([link removed])
Maine Beacon, 12/24/2019
[Congressional Oversight Claimed Important Victories in 2019. Here Are the Top 5.]([link removed])
Truthout.org, 12/26/2019
[Pete Buttigieg's race problem is an overblown media creation he can overcome — so long as he doesn't screw up his response to it]([link removed])
Business Insider, 12/28/2019
[How Milwaukee Activists Are Organizing to Move Money from Cops to Community]([link removed])
Next City, 01/03/2020
[Aurora wades through efforts to support refugees and immigrants]([link removed])
The Sentinel Colorado, 01/07/2020
[Who Won the Debate? Experts Weigh In]([link removed])
The New York Times, 01/15/2020
[‘Cancel the debt’: Wall Street sabotages Puerto Rico’s earthquake recovery by hoarding $8 billion cash reserve]([link removed])
FrontPage, 01/15/2020
[Politicians not listening? Flexing your consumer muscle can get results.]([link removed])
The Boston Globe, 01/16/2020
[18 progressive groups sign unity pledge amid Sanders-Warren feud]([link removed])
The Hill, 01/16/2020
[Opinion: Victory Is Within Reach For The Left. Keep Your Eyes On The Prize.]([link removed])
BuzzFeed News, 01/17/2020
[Al Punto con Jorge Ramos]([link removed])
Univision, 01/19/2020
[How to Sway An Election Even If You Can’t Vote]([link removed])
Seventeen, 01/21/2020
[CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL CPD NEWS MENTIONS]([link removed])
[]([link removed])
Help us bend the arc of history toward justice and invest in our work.
[]([link removed]) DONATE NOW
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
449 Troutman Street, Suite A
Brooklyn, NY 11237
[]([link removed]) []([link removed]) []([link removed])
© 2020 Center for Popular Democracy. All Rights Reserved.
[View in browser]([link removed])
Center for Popular Democracy - 449 Troutman Street, Suite A - Brooklyn, NY 11237
sent to: [email protected] - [ Manage Subscription]([link removed])
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