| From | Ana Maria Archila <[email protected]> |
| Subject | Organizing for Immigration, Winning Education Justice, and more! |
| Date | July 1, 2019 4:41 PM |
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CASA Helps Pass Universal Representation for Immigrants in Fairfax County
On May 7, Fairfax County made history by becoming the first jurisdiction in Virginia to provide legal representation to immigrants facing deportation proceedings. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to fund a $200,000 universal representation pilot program, which will benefit immigrants in the county—including lawful permanent residents, DACA recipients, and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders—who are currently facing deportation proceedings and who cannot afford an immigration lawyer.
[]([link removed])
This is critical because unlike in the criminal justice system, immigrants facing deportation have no right to a public defender in immigration court.
“With the passage of universal representation, CASA and our community are proud that Fairfax County has taken a step forward in terms of equity by ensuring that immigrants are treated with dignity by providing legal representation. We will continue advancing immigrant rights as one community,” said Luis Aguilar, CASA Virginia Director.
For years, CPD has supported CASA's work on this issue through policy and legal support, organizing support, and strategic research including ["Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit"]([link removed]) released last year. Representation protects due process by allowing immigrants to access their rights under U.S. law. The decision is invaluable for the more than 175 Fairfax families facing immigration proceedings each year. After this important victory, CASA will focus efforts on ensuring that more jurisdictions in the state of Virginia approve similar programs.
With almost 100,000 members across the states of Maryland, Virginia, and South Central Pennsylvania, CASA is the largest member-based Latino and immigrant organization in the mid-Atlantic region. CASA organizes with and litigates on behalf of low-wage immigrants. [Learn more about CASA here.]([link removed])
TOP PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
[N]([link removed])ew York Expanded Rent Control. Will Others Follow Suit?
Next City, 06/20/2019
“Earlier this year, PolicyLink released a report in conjunction with the Right to the City Alliance and the Center for Popular Democracy advocating for the expansion of rent control nationwide. Expanding rent control could stabilize 42 million households, the report concluded, with low-income tenants of color standing to gain the most benefits. The report highlighted rent-control campaigns around the country, including New York’s.” [Read more.]([link removed])
Single-payer activists say you need to take a closer look at polls on Medicare for All
ThinkProgress, 06/19/2019
Sometimes, politicians don’t correctly describe Medicare for All either, said Jennifer Epps-Addison, president and co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) told a town hall in May that “you will be able to keep your doctor” under Medicare for All because “91% of the doctors in the United States are in the Medicare system.” [Read more.]([link removed])
United Shades of America
CNN, 0616/2019
“Last year LIT and the Center for Popular Democracy showed a report that showed 53% of the student body but accounted for 80% of the 10,000 suspensions during the 2015-2016 school year. That's double the national rate. Not only that, more than 100 black students were expelled for things white students were just suspended over. Worst of all, students of color were 85% of the students turned over to police. That's the school to prison pipeline. while the system is obviously racist, often what affects...” [Read more.]([link removed])
Activists Take On Medicare For All, The Census And Abortion In Day Of Action
HuffPost, 06/12/2019
“A few dozen protesters participated in a series of events, organized by the advocacy group Center for Popular Democracy, that were based around a common theme: the belief that the decisions of those currently in power are detrimental to the lives of the people, who must come together to fight back. “I think that we on the left operate in a lot of silos, meaning that we prioritize our own issues,” Darius Gordon, the national field organizer for the center, told HuffPost. “We thought that today would be a great day to encompass all of these issues into one event.”” [Read more.]([link removed])
[ READ MORE NEWS FROM JUNE](#News)
ACTION: CPD Affiliates Organize Dramatic Series of Actions in Capitol
On June 12, the Center for Popular Democracy’s sister organization, CPD Action, brought 200 people to Washington, D.C. for a dramatic series of actions ranging from raising their voices for women’s reproductive health, to challenging the inclusion of the citizen question on the upcoming census, to advocacy for Medicare for All.
[The underlying theme was that we are all in this together]([link removed]) – a way to strengthen and clarify the shared commitments of our movement.
The day kicked off with a hearing in the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means about Medicare for All. The room was packed with activists wearing #MedicareforAll t-shirts. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
MEET OUR AFFILIATES:
Join Good Jobs Now at the People's Convention 2019
On June 15, Detroit Action, the organization formerly known as Good Jobs Now, held its first Detroit Neighborhoods Summit called "The Future of the Hood." Detroit Action was joined by over 200 Detroit residents who came together for staff-led workshops on abolition and democracy, on the politics of the hood, and on power building led by youth leaders who make up Voices of Detroit Youth (VODY). The organization's year-round canvass team pitched folks on why revenue generating membership is a key strategy for building independent politics and a pathway towards liberation.
GJN member and Detroit’s champion Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, discussed key bills in Congress to chip away at away at economic precarity in our communities. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
TOOLKIT: Using Local Budgets to Ensure Fair Counts for the 2020 Census
In May, Local Progress and the Center for Popular Democracy released an advocacy toolkit, [Using Your Local Budgets to Ensure a Fair Count of Your Community]([link removed]), to help local elected officials leverage their power to support a fair count in the 2020 Census. Getting the 2020 Census count right is critical—it will shape political representation, public policy and funding, private sector investments, and determine whose voice is heard at every level of our democracy.
The census has been chronically underfunded for years. What's more, the Trump administration is planning to offer insufficient funding in order to ensure an adequate count. The Trump administration is also attempting to add an untested and unnecessary citizenship question to the census. On June 27, the Supreme Court ruled that this attempt [violated U.S. law by being “arbitrary and capricious”]([link removed]) and prevented it from being added to the census – for now. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
REPORT: The Case for Expanding Access to Driver's Licenses
The Center for Popular Democracy and the National Immigration Law Center published the report ["Safe Roads Across the Tri-State Area: The Case for Expanding Access to Driver’s Licenses in New York and New Jersey."]([link removed]) As the report highlights, 12 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have passed laws that make driver’s licenses accessible to all eligible residents, regardless of immigration status. In states where driver’s licenses are available to all residents, clear and compelling evidence demonstrates these policies ensure safer roads, boost state revenues, provide more economic opportunities for working people, and help keep immigrant families together. The report garnered significant press coverage and was featured in the [New York Daily News]([link removed]), [NY1 Noticias]([link removed]), [Univision]([link removed]), and [Agencia EFE]([link removed]) among other outlets.
The report features data on the impact driver's license policies would have in New York and New Jersey, the states where advocates have been tirelessly pushing for these policies. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
EDUCATION JUSTICE: CPD Affiliate LIT Wins BIG in Milwaukee
[Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT)]([link removed]), a youth-of-color-led organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin just won a big victory! Since their founding a year and a half ago, LIT has focused on building the leadership of young people in Milwaukee. Their work has pushed Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) to do better for Black and Brown youth—and they are just getting started. Young people have called on the school district to divest from criminalizing young people and instead invest in supportive and nurturing resources that will give them the freedom to thrive. Check out and [share this twitter thread]([link removed]) to spread the word!
Recently, they achieved their largest victory yet. The Milwaukee Board of School Directors divested $600,000 from police and security and invested that money into six new mental health positions to focus on trauma-informed care. This is a major victory to start chipping away at the deep criminalization of Black and Brown young people. This marks the first divest/invest win in Milwaukee schools, which came directly from LIT’s advocacy and demands. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
[]([link removed])
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: SPACES in Action Helps Pass Provisions of the Birth-to-Three for All Act
As part of a coordinated effort in Washington, D.C., SPACEs in Action has secured almost $16 million in the city budget for the Birth-to-Three Act for All (B3) passed last year! B3 aims to create infrastructure and support for early childhood learning, providing funding for D.C.’s child care subsidy program, increasing payment for early childhood educators, and supporting pre- and post-natal care and health programs for parents. The budget vote represented a big step forward in making the provisions of the Birth-to-Three for All Act a reality, with the Council voting to invest in funding for fiscal year 2020. SPACES and other local organizations met with council members and staff, testified at hearings, placed community leaders' op-eds, called, tweeted, emailed, and came together to strategize around this budget.
The funding comes in part from a $5 million investment from the mayor, but impressively, the rest comes from the efforts of the city council to discover new sources of revenue. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
[]IN THE NEWS
Continued From Above
[Single Payer Advocates to Protest AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago]([link removed])
Corporate Crime Reporter, 06/06/2019
[Protesters Rally, Disrupt Opening Session at AMA Meeting]([link removed])
MedPage Today, 06/08/2019
[Progressives out to oust ’20 House Dems try to focus fervor]([link removed])
Associated Press, 06/10/2019
[Latino leaders sound alarms over Trump reelection in 2020]([link removed])
Politico, 06/10/2019
[Durham City Council says no to more police]([link removed])
The Appeal, 06/10/2019
[Hourly employees face greater hurdles to save—nearly half have no emergency funds]([link removed])
CNBC, 06/12/2019
[Inslee channels anti-DNC fervor in climate debate fight]([link removed])
E&E News, 06/13/2019
[Universal Rent Control Now]([link removed])
Jacobin, 06/17/2019
[Immigrant Rights Groups Marched Through Woodbridge, New Jersey]([link removed])
WNYC NPR, 06/17/2019
[New York Grants Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Residents]([link removed])
Democracy Now!, 06/18/2019
[Tiffany Pagán se gana el respaldo de líderes proinmigrantes]([link removed])
El Diario New York, 06/18/2019
[Cabán Hoping to Repeat Historic Win in Queens]([link removed]) []([link removed])
Queens County Politics, 06/18/2019
[New York Could Become First State To Be Completely Done With Private Prisons]([link removed])
Forbes, 06/19/2019
[New Liberate MKE campaign community groups vow to take on Milwaukee's city budget]([link removed])
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 06/20/2019
[‘The wrong formula’: Latino leaders blast Biden outreach efforts]([link removed])
Politico, 06/21/2019
[Immigration enforcement funded far better than labor law enforcement]([link removed])
People's World, 06/21/2019
[Trump’s threat to deport millions of immigrants risks backlash in 2020]([link removed])
Los Angeles Times, 06/22/2019
[CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL CPD NEWS MENTIONS]([link removed])
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On May 7, Fairfax County made history by becoming the first jurisdiction in Virginia to provide legal representation to immigrants facing deportation proceedings. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to fund a $200,000 universal representation pilot program, which will benefit immigrants in the county—including lawful permanent residents, DACA recipients, and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders—who are currently facing deportation proceedings and who cannot afford an immigration lawyer.
[]([link removed])
This is critical because unlike in the criminal justice system, immigrants facing deportation have no right to a public defender in immigration court.
“With the passage of universal representation, CASA and our community are proud that Fairfax County has taken a step forward in terms of equity by ensuring that immigrants are treated with dignity by providing legal representation. We will continue advancing immigrant rights as one community,” said Luis Aguilar, CASA Virginia Director.
For years, CPD has supported CASA's work on this issue through policy and legal support, organizing support, and strategic research including ["Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit"]([link removed]) released last year. Representation protects due process by allowing immigrants to access their rights under U.S. law. The decision is invaluable for the more than 175 Fairfax families facing immigration proceedings each year. After this important victory, CASA will focus efforts on ensuring that more jurisdictions in the state of Virginia approve similar programs.
With almost 100,000 members across the states of Maryland, Virginia, and South Central Pennsylvania, CASA is the largest member-based Latino and immigrant organization in the mid-Atlantic region. CASA organizes with and litigates on behalf of low-wage immigrants. [Learn more about CASA here.]([link removed])
TOP PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
[N]([link removed])ew York Expanded Rent Control. Will Others Follow Suit?
Next City, 06/20/2019
“Earlier this year, PolicyLink released a report in conjunction with the Right to the City Alliance and the Center for Popular Democracy advocating for the expansion of rent control nationwide. Expanding rent control could stabilize 42 million households, the report concluded, with low-income tenants of color standing to gain the most benefits. The report highlighted rent-control campaigns around the country, including New York’s.” [Read more.]([link removed])
Single-payer activists say you need to take a closer look at polls on Medicare for All
ThinkProgress, 06/19/2019
Sometimes, politicians don’t correctly describe Medicare for All either, said Jennifer Epps-Addison, president and co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) told a town hall in May that “you will be able to keep your doctor” under Medicare for All because “91% of the doctors in the United States are in the Medicare system.” [Read more.]([link removed])
United Shades of America
CNN, 0616/2019
“Last year LIT and the Center for Popular Democracy showed a report that showed 53% of the student body but accounted for 80% of the 10,000 suspensions during the 2015-2016 school year. That's double the national rate. Not only that, more than 100 black students were expelled for things white students were just suspended over. Worst of all, students of color were 85% of the students turned over to police. That's the school to prison pipeline. while the system is obviously racist, often what affects...” [Read more.]([link removed])
Activists Take On Medicare For All, The Census And Abortion In Day Of Action
HuffPost, 06/12/2019
“A few dozen protesters participated in a series of events, organized by the advocacy group Center for Popular Democracy, that were based around a common theme: the belief that the decisions of those currently in power are detrimental to the lives of the people, who must come together to fight back. “I think that we on the left operate in a lot of silos, meaning that we prioritize our own issues,” Darius Gordon, the national field organizer for the center, told HuffPost. “We thought that today would be a great day to encompass all of these issues into one event.”” [Read more.]([link removed])
[ READ MORE NEWS FROM JUNE](#News)
ACTION: CPD Affiliates Organize Dramatic Series of Actions in Capitol
On June 12, the Center for Popular Democracy’s sister organization, CPD Action, brought 200 people to Washington, D.C. for a dramatic series of actions ranging from raising their voices for women’s reproductive health, to challenging the inclusion of the citizen question on the upcoming census, to advocacy for Medicare for All.
[The underlying theme was that we are all in this together]([link removed]) – a way to strengthen and clarify the shared commitments of our movement.
The day kicked off with a hearing in the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means about Medicare for All. The room was packed with activists wearing #MedicareforAll t-shirts. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
MEET OUR AFFILIATES:
Join Good Jobs Now at the People's Convention 2019
On June 15, Detroit Action, the organization formerly known as Good Jobs Now, held its first Detroit Neighborhoods Summit called "The Future of the Hood." Detroit Action was joined by over 200 Detroit residents who came together for staff-led workshops on abolition and democracy, on the politics of the hood, and on power building led by youth leaders who make up Voices of Detroit Youth (VODY). The organization's year-round canvass team pitched folks on why revenue generating membership is a key strategy for building independent politics and a pathway towards liberation.
GJN member and Detroit’s champion Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, discussed key bills in Congress to chip away at away at economic precarity in our communities. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
TOOLKIT: Using Local Budgets to Ensure Fair Counts for the 2020 Census
In May, Local Progress and the Center for Popular Democracy released an advocacy toolkit, [Using Your Local Budgets to Ensure a Fair Count of Your Community]([link removed]), to help local elected officials leverage their power to support a fair count in the 2020 Census. Getting the 2020 Census count right is critical—it will shape political representation, public policy and funding, private sector investments, and determine whose voice is heard at every level of our democracy.
The census has been chronically underfunded for years. What's more, the Trump administration is planning to offer insufficient funding in order to ensure an adequate count. The Trump administration is also attempting to add an untested and unnecessary citizenship question to the census. On June 27, the Supreme Court ruled that this attempt [violated U.S. law by being “arbitrary and capricious”]([link removed]) and prevented it from being added to the census – for now. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
REPORT: The Case for Expanding Access to Driver's Licenses
The Center for Popular Democracy and the National Immigration Law Center published the report ["Safe Roads Across the Tri-State Area: The Case for Expanding Access to Driver’s Licenses in New York and New Jersey."]([link removed]) As the report highlights, 12 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have passed laws that make driver’s licenses accessible to all eligible residents, regardless of immigration status. In states where driver’s licenses are available to all residents, clear and compelling evidence demonstrates these policies ensure safer roads, boost state revenues, provide more economic opportunities for working people, and help keep immigrant families together. The report garnered significant press coverage and was featured in the [New York Daily News]([link removed]), [NY1 Noticias]([link removed]), [Univision]([link removed]), and [Agencia EFE]([link removed]) among other outlets.
The report features data on the impact driver's license policies would have in New York and New Jersey, the states where advocates have been tirelessly pushing for these policies. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
EDUCATION JUSTICE: CPD Affiliate LIT Wins BIG in Milwaukee
[Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT)]([link removed]), a youth-of-color-led organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin just won a big victory! Since their founding a year and a half ago, LIT has focused on building the leadership of young people in Milwaukee. Their work has pushed Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) to do better for Black and Brown youth—and they are just getting started. Young people have called on the school district to divest from criminalizing young people and instead invest in supportive and nurturing resources that will give them the freedom to thrive. Check out and [share this twitter thread]([link removed]) to spread the word!
Recently, they achieved their largest victory yet. The Milwaukee Board of School Directors divested $600,000 from police and security and invested that money into six new mental health positions to focus on trauma-informed care. This is a major victory to start chipping away at the deep criminalization of Black and Brown young people. This marks the first divest/invest win in Milwaukee schools, which came directly from LIT’s advocacy and demands. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
[]([link removed])
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: SPACES in Action Helps Pass Provisions of the Birth-to-Three for All Act
As part of a coordinated effort in Washington, D.C., SPACEs in Action has secured almost $16 million in the city budget for the Birth-to-Three Act for All (B3) passed last year! B3 aims to create infrastructure and support for early childhood learning, providing funding for D.C.’s child care subsidy program, increasing payment for early childhood educators, and supporting pre- and post-natal care and health programs for parents. The budget vote represented a big step forward in making the provisions of the Birth-to-Three for All Act a reality, with the Council voting to invest in funding for fiscal year 2020. SPACES and other local organizations met with council members and staff, testified at hearings, placed community leaders' op-eds, called, tweeted, emailed, and came together to strategize around this budget.
The funding comes in part from a $5 million investment from the mayor, but impressively, the rest comes from the efforts of the city council to discover new sources of revenue. [Read more on our blog.]([link removed])
[]IN THE NEWS
Continued From Above
[Single Payer Advocates to Protest AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago]([link removed])
Corporate Crime Reporter, 06/06/2019
[Protesters Rally, Disrupt Opening Session at AMA Meeting]([link removed])
MedPage Today, 06/08/2019
[Progressives out to oust ’20 House Dems try to focus fervor]([link removed])
Associated Press, 06/10/2019
[Latino leaders sound alarms over Trump reelection in 2020]([link removed])
Politico, 06/10/2019
[Durham City Council says no to more police]([link removed])
The Appeal, 06/10/2019
[Hourly employees face greater hurdles to save—nearly half have no emergency funds]([link removed])
CNBC, 06/12/2019
[Inslee channels anti-DNC fervor in climate debate fight]([link removed])
E&E News, 06/13/2019
[Universal Rent Control Now]([link removed])
Jacobin, 06/17/2019
[Immigrant Rights Groups Marched Through Woodbridge, New Jersey]([link removed])
WNYC NPR, 06/17/2019
[New York Grants Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Residents]([link removed])
Democracy Now!, 06/18/2019
[Tiffany Pagán se gana el respaldo de líderes proinmigrantes]([link removed])
El Diario New York, 06/18/2019
[Cabán Hoping to Repeat Historic Win in Queens]([link removed]) []([link removed])
Queens County Politics, 06/18/2019
[New York Could Become First State To Be Completely Done With Private Prisons]([link removed])
Forbes, 06/19/2019
[New Liberate MKE campaign community groups vow to take on Milwaukee's city budget]([link removed])
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 06/20/2019
[‘The wrong formula’: Latino leaders blast Biden outreach efforts]([link removed])
Politico, 06/21/2019
[Immigration enforcement funded far better than labor law enforcement]([link removed])
People's World, 06/21/2019
[Trump’s threat to deport millions of immigrants risks backlash in 2020]([link removed])
Los Angeles Times, 06/22/2019
[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.
[ DONATE NOW]([link removed])
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
449 Troutman Street, Suite A
Brooklyn, NY 11237
[]([link removed]) []([link removed]) []([link removed])
© 2019 Center for Popular Democracy. All Rights Reserved.
[View in browser]([link removed])
Center for Popular Democracy - 449 Troutman Street, Suite A - Brooklyn, NY 11237
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