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The Network Download: Migrant crisis response, HB1 update and more | Oct 2022
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network.
- Housing, Public Safety
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LP Members Discuss Innovative Policy Making at Route Fifty Future Cities Summit
As part of this year’s Route Fifty Future Cities Summit, two Local Progress members participated in panel discussions exploring what the future of cities could look like with innovative, equitable policy making.
- Economic Justice
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Workers’ Rights Local Government Round Up | Sept 2022
We have partnered with the Harvard Labor & Worklife Program to pilot this approximately monthly newsletter to share and celebrate innovative local workers’ rights policies that have been proposed and/or enacted across the country—and have included links to those policies where possible.
- Home Rule
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Lawsuit against anti-riot bill’s ‘defund the police’ provision advances
Five of the eight cities that filed complaints were OK’d to make their case. A Tallahassee circuit judge is letting a lawsuit against the “defund the police” provision in Florida’s anti-riot law move forward.
- Home Rule
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Localities Stand up for Local Control as HB 1 is Challenged in Court
Today, over a year of organizing and community support comes to fruition, as the case will be heard by a court for the first time. The eight city plaintiffs are: Gainesville, Lake Worth Beach, Lauderhill, Miramar, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Tallahassee, and Wilton Manors.
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The Network Download: Abortion rights, worker protections, and more. | Sept 2022
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
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The best moments from our national convening in Denver! #LP2022
More than 360 local elected officials, partners, and allies in community. Sharing, healing, and learning together. Pushing each other. Empowering one another. Here’s a recap of some of our most powerful and exciting moments together.
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As Trigger Law Goes into Effect, Five Texas Localities Have Moved to Prevent the Criminalization of Abortion
Five localities – Denton, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso County, and Dallas – have already passed decriminalization resolutions that ensure local resources will not be used to enforce the states’ trigger law.
- Abortion & Reproductive Rights, Climate Justice, Leveraging Federal Resources
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August Federal Advocacy Roundup : The Inflation Reduction Act
August has been a busy time for the federal government! The big news, of course, is the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which passed last week on August 16.
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Netroots Nation 2022 – A Threat to Racial Justice: Criminalizing Protest and State Interference
At Netroots, we examined the troubling trend of attacks on democracy through a case study of HB1, which is currently facing a community-centered legal challenge on behalf of multiple Florida municipalities.
- Abortion & Reproductive Rights
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How One Progressive City Is Fighting to Decriminalize Abortion
As part of a growing movement, municipalities like Austin are finding ways to protect their most vulnerable citizens in a post-Roe world.
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Two New Brands. One Powerful Network.
Today, we are thrilled to share with you the launch of our new look! Here we share a bit of the history of how we got it and the process we took to create these two beautiful brands.
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Cities Want To Give Worker’s Heat Breaks. States Are Stopping Them.
As the climate heats up, LP's LiJia Gong makes the case that abusive state preemption is prohibiting localities addressing climate change.
- Leveraging Federal Resources
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I’m the Mayor of St. Paul. Here’s How Our City Is Erasing $100 Million in Medical Debt.
More and more local governments are using federal funds to relieve residents’ medical debt. Mayor of Saint Paul Melvin Carter explains why it's a simple, straightforward way to meet our communities’ needs.
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Opinion: One Year Later, Local Leaders Must Be Bold Despite “Death Star” Law
July 1, 2024 marks one year since the City of Houston sued the state of Texas over the Death Star law. San Marcos City Councilmember Alyssa Garza makes the case that now is the time to be bold – to advance policies that uplift the very communities our legislature wants to silence.
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Is this European city a model for Philadelphia’s affordable housing? One Council member thinks so
Philadelphia City Councilmembers Jamie Gauthier and Kendra Brooks visited Vienna earlier this year with Local Progress to learn about its housing polices.
press Releases
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After Grants Pass: organizing to house all our neighbors
In response to the Supreme Court's cruel decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, we will continue to organize for housing for all.
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Local Progress Condemns Cruel Supreme Court Decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, Local Progress put out the following statement.
- Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Home Rule
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180+ State and Local Elected Officials Urge Congress to Reject the EATS Act
LP and the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) released letters calling on Congress to protect local and state governments ability to create policy that is responsive to the issues their own communities face in the agricultural industry.
- Immigrant Justice
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Local Leaders Denounce Senate Deal That Would Gut Asylum
In response to the Senate’s proposed border deal that would gut asylum in exchange for foreign military spending, Local Progress released this statement.
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📬 LP Network Download | Traffic safety, ceasefire, history in Minnesota, & more! | January 2024
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
