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** 2024 SiX National Conference Registration Open
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We are thrilled to announce that early registration is now open ([link removed]) for SiX’s 2024 national conference! Our conference will be held December 11-13, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s conference theme is Irresistible Futures: Moving from Impossible to Inevitable ([link removed]) . Hundreds of state legislators and trusted partners from around the country will gather, reflect, and plan for a future where all people have power and agency over their lives. Join us ([link removed]) !


** SiX Launches Economic Power Project

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States across the country are facing legislative proposals criminalizing people experiencing homelessness ([link removed]) , as well as banning local guaranteed income programs ([link removed]) — rolling back innovative local programs that advanced racial and economic justice. These abusive preemptions are designed to maintain structural barriers to prosperity, and are pushed by national billionaire-backed think-tanks, specifically the Cicero Institute ([link removed]) and the Foundation for Government Accountability ([link removed]) . They are part of a coordinated network
([link removed]) of extremists billionaires, think-thanks, and corporations pushing state laws to privatize public education ([link removed]) , bust public sector unions ([link removed]) , and roll back child labor protections ([link removed]) , as well as erase Black history ([link removed]) and criminalize queer kids ([link removed]) .

In the face of these increased attacks, SiX is proud to launch the Economic Power Project, a national economic justice initiative, to organize legislators across state boundaries who are committed to building economies that empower people and advance justice. Learn more here ([link removed]) .


** A State Legislator’s Guide to Direct Pay

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Last month, the IRS issued final regulations ([link removed]) on direct pay of clean energy credits for state and local governments and tax-exempt organizations.
Check out our legislator guide ([link removed]) to building jobs and sustainable public energy and our stakeholder webinar ([link removed]) (and this teaser video ([link removed]) from our partners at the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center or CPCC) featuring Michigan State Rep. Abraham Aiyash, the BlueGreen Alliance, the CA Green New Deal Coalition, and CPCC for more information!


** Honoring Black Maternal Health Week
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Join the week of action in honor of Black Maternal Health Week ([link removed]) (BMHW)! This year’s week of action will take place April 11-17th, 2024, with the theme Our Bodies STILL Belong to Us: Reproductive Justice NOW!

The BMHW campaign, spearheaded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, was created to raise awareness, inspire activism, and build community support for the issues and policies impacting the health and rights of Black mothers and birthing people.

This official toolkit ([link removed]) contains key messaging, social shareables, and materials related to BMHW 2024. Stay tuned for state legislator social media graphics in April!


** Coastal State Legislators Take on Industrial Aquaculture

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The SiX Agriculture & Food Systems Team is excited to partner with Don’t Cage Our Oceans for a first-of-its-kind
three-day experiential learning training ([link removed]) July 12-14, where legislators from coastal states will gather to gain a deeper understanding of the local & regional impacts of industrial aquaculture and the role federal and state policy play in supporting working waterfronts and local fishing economies. Check out this explainer ([link removed]) on industrial aquaculture or “factory fish farms.”


** Future of Democracy

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SiX's Democracy Program was selected by Brown University for a Policy in Action project. This research project will help us understand and scrutinize the effect that emerging technologies like artificial intelligence will have on our country's democratic institutions and civil society. The collaboration will lay the foundation for the launch of the "Future of Democracy" - a new SiX initiative that will develop state-level actors’ capacity to confront the threats emerging technologies pose on American democracy. Stay tuned for more information!

State legislators, if you’d like to go deeper into SiX’s issue areas, join our legislator cohorts: the Economic Power Project ([link removed]) , the Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity ([link removed]) , the Democracy Project ([link removed]) , and the Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council ([link removed]) !

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