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The Cities That Are Already Defunding the Police

AXIOS

June 27, 2020

The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police

CITY LAB

June 9, 2020

Minneapolis Lawmakers Vow to Disband Police Department in Historic Move

THE GUARDIAN

June 7, 2020

How Cities Offload the Cost of Police Brutality

CITY LAB

June 4, 2020

As Trump Ignores COVID and Attacks Cities, Local Leaders Build for Our Future

TRUTHOUT

June 13, 2020

Rent relief was needed ‘well before a global health crisis’: leaders

SMART CITIES DIVE

May 5, 2020

Local Governments are leading the change on safe voting

THE INTERCEPT

April 20, 2020

City Leaders Rally Around a Fix: Cancel the Rent

CITY LAB

April 2, 2020

Local politicians decided to have police, policies evaluated. Results were shocking.

USA TODAY

January 16, 2020

Progressives Help Progressives—Across City Lines

THE AMERICAN PROSPECT

January 13, 2020

All of a Sudden, Housing Is on the Agenda

JACOBIN

November 13, 2019

Local officials in 31 U.S. states write to McDonald’s on sexual harassment

REUTERS

September 26, 2019

Austin Poised to Become First Texas City to Fund Abortion Support

NEXT CITY

September 10, 2019

Progressives Scramble to Fight Back Against Texas Republicans’ Attacks on Local Control

TEXAS OBSERVER

April 10, 2019

New York’s Ejection of Amazon Is the Start of a Movement

CITYLAB

February 14, 2019

‘Freedom city’? Going beyond ‘sanctuary,’ Austin, Texas, vows to curtail arrests

LA TIMES

June 19. 2018

Seattle Scales Back Tax in Face of Amazon’s Revolt, but Tensions Linger

NEW YORK TIMES

May 14, 2018

Meet the lefty club behind a blitz of new laws in cities around the country

WASHINGTON POST

January 4, 2016

Urban leaders converge in Minneapolis to discuss ‘blue city’ agendas

STAR TRIBUNE

July 12, 2018

17 Durham, Raleigh, Orange leaders join national call to abolish ICE

THE HERALD SUN

July 11, 2018

Elected Officials From 20 States Join the Call to Abolish ICE

THE INTERCEPT

July 10, 2018

How a Small City Is Taking on the Big Power of Dark Money

THE NATION

March 30, 2018

What Happens After the Progressive Revolution Comes to a City Like Durham?.

THE NATION

March 12, 2018

These Cities Aren’t Waiting for the Supreme Court to Decide Whether or Not to Gut Unions

THE NATION

February 26, 2018

The Fight for Paid Sick Leave Moves South

CITYLAB

February 21, 2018

Diverse, Radical and Ready to Resist: Meet the First in the New Wave of Local Progressive Officials

IN THESE TIMES

August 8, 2017

City Leaders Met Yesterday in NYC to Strategize the Resistance

NEXT CITY

March 29, 2017

‘We Cannot Hide’: Sanctuary Cities Join Forces in First Meeting of Its Kind

NBC NEWS

March 28, 2017