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John,
Despite all the challenges of 2020, IPS forged deep relationships with social movements to advance justice on race, class, and climate. Here are just a few of the areas where our work with movements has gone deeper than ever.
We appreciate your support in shaping this work for the challenges of 2021.
[link removed] [[link removed]]Attacking extreme inequality
Why are billionaires profiting while so many Americans lose their jobs, health insurance, and lives? Because extreme inequality and the racial wealth divide, we reported this year, are our “pre-existing conditions.”
Since mid-March, IPS’s groundbreaking research [[link removed]] on billionaire pandemic profiteering has been covered in almost 1,000 media stories. Members of Congress, inspired by our research, introduced an emergency pandemic wealth tax, the Make the Billionaires Pay Act.
We also charted the impact of COVID-19 on inequality in weekly coverage at Inequality.org [[link removed]] and its weekly newsletter [[link removed]] , in powerful charts and graphics [[link removed]] , and our report, White Supremacy is the Pre-Existing Condition [[link removed]] .
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Saving the Post Office
When President Trump and his Postmaster General escalated the assault on our public Postal Service, IPS played a key role in stopping them in their tracks.
Drawing from our years of experience in defense of the USPS, we drafted talking points and fact sheets for a coalition that organized more than 1,000 actions at post offices across the country. .
We also worked with postal workers and others to publish dozens of op-eds and letters to the editor in the hometown newspapers of key lawmakers, urging them to support this vital institution at a time when it is needed more than ever as a provider of essential services and good jobs, particularly for Black and rural Americans.
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Advancing Black Workers
This year, when strengthening working people’s ability to organize has never been more important, the IPS Black Worker Initiative joined Jobs with Justice and Morehouse College to launch the Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI). Our overarching vision is to create a cohort of Black labor leaders committed to leading, developing, and advancing campaigns that support unionization, particularly in the South.
Attacking the Criminalization of Race and Poverty
The IPS Criminalization of Poverty and Race Project has been pushing all year for more robust COVID-19 relief packages, publishing many pieces and highlighting impacted voices urging food and housing assistance, unemployment assistance, and child care help, among other human needs.
With impacted members of the Poor People’s Campaign and other allies, IPS embarked on a national storytelling project to shift the narrative on poverty in this country. We’ve helped develop op-eds by real people struggling through the pandemic and recession and distributed them to millions of readers across the country.
And, responding to the mass civil rights protests for police abolition and reform, IPS produced a comprehensive tool kit, fact sheet, and a new report on Reimagining School Safety [[link removed]] . These resources went directly into the hands of activists and were instrumental in campaigns to end the school-to-prison-pipeline for Black, Brown, disabled, transgender, and low-income children.
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Promoting Climate Equity
Public transit systems nationwide have experienced sharp drops in ridership and revenues because of the pandemic, threatening the survival of an essential public service for vulnerable communities and potentially leading to more greenhouse gas emissions.
The IPS Climate Policy Program has played a key role in the collective response by the Transit Equity Network, successfully mobilizing support pressure on the House of Representatives to double the transit funding in its emergency relief bill — a huge first step.
All of this work is sustained by supporters like you!
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John Cavanagh
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