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Since late December, a series of major earthquakes shook the southwest area of the archipelago of Puerto Rico causing an island-wide blackout, leaving thousands homeless, and causing structural...
01/30/20
Organizing for a Just Recovery in Puerto Rico and Beyond
In 2018, Local Progress launched Reform/Transform: A Policing Policy Toolkit, a resource designed to help elected officials, policymakers, and organizers evaluate the strength of policing policies,...
01/30/20
In December 2019, CPD and the Economic Policy Institute, published a report "Still Terrible at Two: The Trump Tax Act Delivered Big Benefits to the Rich and Corporations But Nearly None for Working...
01/30/20
Holding Wall Street Accountable, Raising the Bar for Workers and Families
Earlier this month, Executive Directors and key staff from more than 30 CPD affiliates met in Stony Point, New York to plan for 2020 and beyond. They spent two and a half days connecting and aligning...
01/30/20
Base-Building & Affiliates
CPD’s Justice Transformation team kicked off the new year with a weekend of movement and power building. The group wrapped their second Freedom Lab this past weekend,  in Nashville alongside Law for...
01/24/20
Justice Transformation
CPD’s signature NYC  fundraiser, The Guiding Light Awards, is just around the corner on Tuesday, December 3! Over 300 philanthropists, frontline organizers, strategic partners and allies will gather...
11/06/19
Last month, hourly service workers from CPD affiliates United for Respect and One Pennsylvania called on Congress to guarantee a fair workweek and combat the last-minute scheduling practices that...
11/06/19
Restoring a Fair Workweek
At the start of October, CPD’s Justice Transformation team held the first ever ‘Freedom Lab’ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In partnership with Law for Black Lives and Policy Link, the two day event...
11/06/19
Justice Transformation
For more than three decades, Black and Latinx young people, parents, educators, and communities have organized to dismantle the school-to-prison-and-deportation pipeline. Ahead of the 2020 election,...
11/06/19
Organizing for Education Justice
Local Progress (LP), a movement of local elected officials advancing a racial and economic justice agenda through all levels of local government, held its first convening on Housing Justice in Durham...
11/06/19

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