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Dear John,

It’s never been clearer: we are the ones who will save us. Our democracy, our economy, our communities - they thrive from the ground up, from the grassroots.

In this past month and a half we’ve faced tremendous heartbreak at an economy that has placed so many people in danger. But I have hope. That hope springs from the leadership and life-saving organizing we are seeing rise across this country. Our communities are fighting with love and righteousness for the right to live and to thrive and we are making progress.

This is the biggest wave of worker organizing we’ve seen in decades.

From New York to Nashville to California, our affiliates are winning long-overdue worker protection policies.

From Oakland to San Jose to Los Angeles, we have won paid sick days for workers and support for folks who have lost their jobs. In Pennsylvania we’re standing strong for dignified wages and paid sick days for all. In Seattle, we’re moving a package of policies for workers rights and a broader progressive response to the pandemic. In New York and California, we’re collaborating directly with warehouse workers to fight back against Amazon’s hazardous working conditions and expose its failure to provide essential worker benefits.

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April brought incredible strides in the housing justice movement.

This pandemic has revealed what some of us have always known - housing is a human right and a basic need.

Following the advocacy of CLU and its partners, the entire state of Massachusetts passed a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures. In California, we’ve won eviction moratoriums in eight cities, along with critical tenant protections in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. In Pittsburgh, our affiliate helped establish a COVID Housing Stability Fund to allow working families to afford rent, utilities, and mortgage payments during this crisis. And in Colorado, our movement for rent cancelation and a statewide eviction moratorium is gaining momentum :[[link removed]] .

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We’re also organizing to make sure the social safety net includes all of us, including immigrants.

In the last few weeks, affiliates have launched local funds for undocumented families in Oakland and Oxnard and lobbied for cash assistance for folks who don’t qualify for federal aid in Chicago. The California Partnership for Working Families organized in coalition to win $125 million in statewide disaster relief for undocumented workers, and is now working to expand the policy to cover more people for longer: [[link removed]]

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It’s vital that we fight for the right to lead the COVID response in our communities.

Almost every state in the country has laws that make it illegal for cities and counties to pass the kinds of policies we need to survive this crisis. These ‘preemption’ laws are especially dangerous in a time when our communities should be empowered to respond quickly. In Tennessee, where preemption laws are especially restrictive and anti-democratic, we’re calling on the governor to immediately suspend several laws that prohibit localities from passing life-saving policies like paid sick leave, property tax relief, and anti-eviction measures: [[link removed]]

Thank you for being in community with us. We’ll get through this together.

In Unity,

Lauren Jacobs
Executive Director
Partnership for Working Families

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