Sunrise Seattle is organizing a remote phone action every day during the week of May 18 in solidarity with the Washington state farmworkers currently striking for COVID-19 protections and hazard pay. Click here to sign up for a shift to take action at the same time as others, or use the following … [Read more...]
Race and the Quarantined City
Lately, the coronavirus has got me thinking a lot about the racial dynamics of containment. Under the quarantine, much has been made of Americans’ regulated lack of mobility. But our cities have long kept their black residents contained and at the margins. Populations trapped in place are easier to … [Read more...]
Backbone Campaign Offers Access to Recently Sponsored Conversations
In Case You Missed It: Here are some of the recent Solutionary Perspective Conversations we've had with movement and policy leaders and friends: #Grounded: A Conversation with Winona LaDuke and Bill McKibben Localization of economies, democracy and resilience requires that we be/get … [Read more...]
Side With Love Urges You to Join “Share My Check” Movement
This moment exposes the failures of structures of support and the gaps are being filled by those in our communities most impacted by COVID. We see structures outside of the state creating nimble systems that get people’s needs met, keep them safe and build and strengthen relationships. The … [Read more...]
Virtual Clinic to Offer Free COVID-Related Legal Consultations for Small Businesses and Non-Profits
Communities Rise (Formerly Nonprofit Assistance Center and Wayfind) launches new Covid-19 Small Business and Nonprofit Legal Clinic: This is a new virtual clinic designed to help small businesses and nonprofits navigate the legal issues they are experiencing due to Covid-19. Small businesses and … [Read more...]
Everyone Should Be Able to Vote, Especially in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis puts workers, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals, Black and Brown people, and the most vulnerable among us at great risk. They are on the front lines of the crisis. While DI partners and allies are working day and night to protect their respective communities, President Trump is … [Read more...]
The COVID-19 pandemic is widening the justice gap
In our Justice for All report released last year, the Task Force on Justice noted that 1.5 billion people had a justice problem that they could not resolve. Now, as well as before the pandemic, marginalized communities – already poorly served by justice systems – face the highest risks, as do … [Read more...]
A FEDERAL ONE-TWO PUNCH TO PROTECT RENTERS—PANDEMIC AND BEYOND
Even before the pandemic shuttered its economy, Cascadia—like many parts of North America—faced a profound housing shortage and affordability crisis. Now, that crisis has become a full-blown emergency. Unemployment is surging toward Great Depression levels, economic output is falling fasterthan … [Read more...]
Urge Your Congress Member to Protect Snap in Next Relief Packages
As conversation begins for the 4th Coronavirus relief package, we need your voice to urge your members of Congress to prioritize funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The exponential rise in unemployment, hunger in our state and nation has skyrocketed and food lines … [Read more...]
Did You Miss Backbone Campaign’s Deep Dive into Ideas for Local Resilience? Catch Up Here
Backbone Campaign took a deep dive last week into solutionary ideas for local resilience when we interviewed Judy Wicks - an expert on local living economies - and a group of time bank experts last week. You can watch the Time Bank Conversation Here Backbone Campaign believes that Time Banking is … [Read more...]
US: Address Impact of Covid-19 on Poor
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has put a spotlight on economic inequalities and a fragile social safety net that leaves vulnerable communities to bear the economic brunt of the crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. US policymakers will need to consider these underlying inequalities in … [Read more...]
Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington Going Digital! June 20, 2020
The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington on June 20, 2020 will not be postponed but will be transformed! We are going digital! We will hold the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people and people of conscience in this nation’s history. The … [Read more...]
For Fair Representation Affecting Schools, Housing, Community, Complete the Census
On April 1, 2020, the US Census Bureau will perform a point-in-time count of every person living in the United States. The Census, which is performed once every ten years, is a head count of every single person living in the United States. It is the primary way that funding decisions for social … [Read more...]
Sign Poor People’s Campaign Petition to Demand a Moral Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
A message from Reverend Dr. William Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, the co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival: So much of this country is in economic free fall in response to COVID-19, while many Americans were already at rock bottom before the virus … [Read more...]
Demand Immediate Protection for Farm Workers in WA State
Daily living and working was already dangerous and precarious for hundreds of thousands of farmworkers and immigrants before the onset of COVID-19. ICE has terrorized our communities and powerful growers have suppressed workers' efforts to organize. Generations of environmental racism have … [Read more...]
As coronavirus spreads, some can’t afford a sick day
On Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee called it a “patriotic act” for workers who are feeling ill to stay home. But that advice, while well-taken, has also exposed the rifts in the labor market between those fortunate enough to have health insurance and generous employment policies and the mostly … [Read more...]
Coronavirus threatens ‘extraordinarily vulnerable’ homeless population
King County's homeless are becoming older and sicker, which leaves them more at risk to the novel virus. If the novel coronavirus continues to spread, King County’s homeless population could be among the most vulnerable to the worst effects of the illness. The virus, which has already … [Read more...]
Washington’s Legislature has the tools — and the mandate — to tackle homelessness
Homelessness was once an issue that mattered to many Washingtonians, but fell behind other concerns such as the economy, education and taxes. Today, the public will for action on homelessness is stronger than ever. Nearly one in three Washington residents surveyed in a recent Crosscut/Elway Pollsaid … [Read more...]
As people with disabilities fall into homelessness, WA lawmakers seek a fix
The growing divide between federal disability income and rent is leading more people into homelessness. Tyrone Porter could soon become one of those people. His Seattle apartment, while subsidized, still costs $805 a month. For three years, that rent was covered by the state. But late last year … [Read more...]
‘No supervisors, no boss’: Upending farm labor by owning the land
Tired of mistreatment and not being able to afford the food they harvested, two Bellingham farmworkers left corporate agriculture to start their own berry cooperative. Torres, 35, and Hernandez, 43, founded the organic berry farm Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad (Land and Liberty Cooperative) … [Read more...]
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