IAF ORGS CHALLENGE STATE LEGISLATURES OVER TAX BREAKS & PROTECTIONS
Texas IAF Derails Reauthorization of $10 Billion Subsidy to Big Oil, Preserving Funding for Public Schools
Texas IAF leaders built an unlikely alliance to kill the state's largest industrial tax program and preserve school district funding.
- In Blow to Big Oil, Corporate Subsidy Quietly Dies in Texas, The Intercept [pdf]
- The Unlikely Demise of Texas' Biggest Corporate Tax Break, Texas Observer
- How Skeptical Texas Lawmakers Put an End to a Controversial Tax Incentive Program, Houston Chronicle [pdf]
- Texas Legislature Dooms Chapter 331, Which Gives Tax Breaks to Big Businesses, Business Journal [pdf]
- Missed Deadline Could Doom Controversial $10B Tax-Break Program, Houston Chronicle [pdf]
- A Texas Law Offers Tax Breaks to Companies, but Its Renewal Isn't a Done Deal, Texas Tribune [pdf]
- A Controversial Tax Program Promised High Paying Jobs. Instead, Its Costs Spiraled Out of Control, Houston Chronicle [pdf]
- Losers and Winners from Chapter 313, Central Texas Interfaith
AZ Interfaith Condemns Flat Tax, State Budget Talks Halt
AIN leaders not only condemned the flat tax as immoral and dangerous, they said they would be "among the first" to call for a referendum if it passes.
600 California IAF Leaders Call for Expansion of Tenant Protections to Prevent Tsunami of Evictions
The California Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), including Bishop Oscar Cantú of the Catholic Diocese of San José, is calling for an extension of the eviction moratorium and amendment of SB 91 to allow more flexibility with rental assistance.
Together Louisiana Challenges Proposal to Allow Industry Employees on Water Conservancy Commission
“The Commission has not stopped, or even slowed the saltwater intrusion into our groundwater drinking sources, or the industrial pumping that is causing the contamination. Why? There are commissioners who are...employees of the very industries whose groundwater pumping is being raised right now.”
-- Dianne Hanley, Together Louisiana
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FIGHTING FOR VACCINE EQUITY & HEALTH
COPA Secures $5M for COVID Education & Mitigation, 'Working Together Mississippi' Calls to Expand Medicaid,
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TEXAS & OKLAHOMA IAF CHALLENGE STATE POWER FAILURES AFTER WINTER STORM
Texas IAF Calls for Accountability After Mobilizing Relief, VOICE-OKC Asks, "Who Profits from Cost Spikes?"
- After Texas' Winter Storm Disaster, Faith Leaders Press to Ensure, 'Never Again', National Catholic Reporter
- Texas Bishops: Electrical Grid Failure was Preventable. Without Accountability, It Will Happen Again, America Magazine
- Texas Faith Leaders Call Out 'Sheer Negligence' Behind Power Outages, National Catholic Reporter
- Washington Post covers Central TX Interfaith's disaster relief efforts, while National Catholic Reporter focuses on a leader's experience and Act Locally Waco recognizes an organizer.
- Dallas Morning News covers Dallas Area Interfaith leader who suffered 40 hours without electricity and another who still suffers from broken plumbing.
- Texas Catholic Herald covers TMO's advocacy efforts.
- Oklahoma Civic Group Seeks Answers About $4.5 Billion in Storm-Related Fuel Costs, The Oklahoman [pdf]
- Some Oklahomans Concerned Over Proposed Plan to Pay Off $4.5 Billion Utility Bills from February Storm, KFOR [pdf]
- [Oklahoma] Advocates Call for Transparent InvestigationInto Cost Spikes, Norman Transcript
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BRIDGING DIGITAL & COMMUNITY DIVIDE
CCG Leverages $20M in Tech for Low-Income Schools, Texas IAF Fights for Digital & Community Access
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PROTECTING RENTERS
MOC Secures Rent Freeze in 7 Hardest Hit Communities. VOICE-OKC & ACTION-Tulsa Secure $26.5M in Rental Relief. Arizona & Texas IAF Orgs Fight for Eviction Relief
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BACKING ESSENTIAL WORKERS
CCG Fights for Grocery Worker Hazard Pay & Safety, COPS/Metro Battles Bureaucracy to Support Workers
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RECOGNIZING THE STRANGER
DAI Welcomes Unaccompanied Migrant Teens to Dallas
After federal officials announced the relocation of 3,000 migrant teens to Dallas, DAI mobilized Spanish-speaking leaders to help them transition. Now leaders are raising concerns:
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RECOGNITION
Catholic Press Lauds IAF Model. Organizer Shares Wisdom. COPS/Metro Former Chair Featured. Outgoing El Paso Priest Honored. AMOS Credited for Skatepark.
- Pope Francis has Criticized Both the Left and the Right’s Politics. Community Organizing Offers a Third Way, America Magazine
- Catholic Social Teaching: Solidarity Means Commitment to the Common Good, Catholic News Service
- La Doctrina Social Católica: Solidaridad es un Compromiso con el Bien Común, Catholic News Service
- The Post-Pandemic Path Ahead, Catholic Campaign for Human Development
- To Overcome Economic Disparities, Turn to Papal Encyclicals, Panelists Say, National Catholic Reporter
- Ayala: Museo's Virtual Show in San Antonio Expands Definition of Activism and its History in San Antonio, San Antonio Express-News
- Beatrice Gallego - Community Activist and COPS President, Museo del Westside
- The Priest Who Spent 40 Years Fighting to Reshape El Paso, El Paso Matters [pdf]
- AMOS leaders are credited with the establishment of the nation's largest skatepark [video here].
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