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Dear John,

Once again, the anti-Blackness so entangled in the DNA of this country is under a national spotlight as we mourn George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and far too many others, whose lives were lost to the violence of police brutality.

We must and will continue to fight for racial and social justice, because an equitable, just, and safe society can’t be achieved without centering the most oppressed.

We must continue to fight for an economic system that doesn’t fail us, deplete us, and put humanity in harm’s way to generate further wealth for the few.

Over the last year, CJA members have worked in coalition to create a policy framework that centers the visionary and powerful solutions of frontline communities who have faced the brunt of social injustices and climate change impacts. We believe that any Green New Deal must center Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor white communities for it to be effective. 

Following a summit held in Detroit last summer with 64 grassroots and allied organizations and 80 leaders, the United Frontline Table (UFT) was formed. The UFT continues to center frontline voices in national conversations about Green New Deal organizing and policy interventions.

Today, we’re sharing this labor of love, expertise, and lived experience with you as a tool to advocate for a Just Transition as the vehicle to a Regenerative Economy.
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A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy: Protect, Repair, Invest and Transform

We invite you to bring this orientation into your work and your lives. This tool is for anyone who wants to create life-affirming and transformative policy changes.

It articulates the necessary questions to ask and steps to take– in 14 policy planks and 80+ policy ideas - to achieve a world that values and sustains our lives and relationships.

Over the summer and fall, we, along with other United Frontline Table members, will engage in organizing work around the 14 policy planks. The planks will also be featured on our social media platforms and websites. With your help amplifying, we can build momentum together for vetted policy priorities we demand from decision makers, our community members and each other.

Right now, Justice for Black Communities is the clear first step that we need to advance right away:

  • End Mass Incarceration & Capital Punishment
  • Make Reparations
  • Reinstate Voting Rights
  • Ensure Equitable Access to Housing, Jobs, Healthcare & Education
  • Invest in Community-Governed Infrastructure
  • Build Community Governance & Oversight of Local Institutions & Economies
  • Divest from Extraction & Invest in Our People Starting with Defunding & Demilitarizing Police

You and your communities are welcome to join the Regenerative Economy. The Protect, Repair, Invest and Transform framework puts us on a trajectory toward collective justice, rooted in a living Regenerative Economy that is intersectional—anti-racist and feminist. Please circulate widely. Over the summer, our policy and organizing teams will continue to outreach and invite our allies. 

Let’s get back to healing and let’s get to building the new.

In solidarity,


Angela Mahecha Adrar
Climate Justice Alliance
Executive Director

#FrontlineGND #GreenNewDeal #PeoplesOrientation #RegenerativeEconomy #FeministEconomy #DefundPolice #BlackLivesMatter

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The United Frontline Table (UFT) is comprised of the following networks, alliances, coalitions, and their members, with the cooperation of movement support organizations: Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Center for Economic Democracy, Climate Justice Alliance, Dēmos, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, Indigenous Environmental Network, It Takes Roots, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Labor Network for Sustainability, New Economy Coalition, People’s Action, Right to the City Alliance, The Rising Majority, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, and UPROSE. This is a subsector of groups that were present at the Detroit Frontline GND Meeting. The Frontline Table has plans and criteria for expansion in Fall of 2020.
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