07/29/10 Bring The Money Home Toolkit (End the Wars in Iraq/Afghanistan)
UPDATED: INCLUDES WIKILEAKS INFORMATION
A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING YOUR CITY COUNCIL’S PREFERENCE THAT MISDIRECTED FUNDS TO CONTINUE THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN BE REDIRECTED TO DOMESTIC PRIORITIES, INCLUDING PRESSING NEEDS IN YOUR CITY.
The following is a simple guide to getting a City Council Resolution passed in your community. A City Council Resolution campaign is not a "one size fits all" effort but the following are ideas to get you started.
A hearing was held on Capitol Hill today focusing on the recently released report, Local Governments Cutting Jobs and Services. The report was a collaborative effort by the National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, and the US Conference of Mayors.
Representatives present: Reps. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN), Barbara Lee (D-CA) Phil Hare (D-IL), Jane Schakowsky (D-IL), and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).
06/24/2010 End the War in Afghanistan Resolution Toolkit
The toolkit contains information for locally elected officials such as a Sample Resolution, Sample Petition, and various facts related to the War in Afghanistan, the longest-running war in American history.
May has been a busy month for CFP!Read more about our events which took place in DC and in Detroit
and focused on the economic crisis.Also get an update on CFP's role in initiating the first government
Participatory Budgeting project in the country!
The Nation Magazine and The Institute for Policy Studies invite you to join them in a wide-ranging and incisive conversation as they discuss the origins on the financial collapse, debate President Obama's stimulus package and consider what form economic recovery should take to ensure a more equitable future for everyone.
The Inter-Alliance Dialogue and the Institute for Policy Studies are hosting an ad-hoc hearing on May 12th to sponsor a progressive dialogue concerning the injustice of three decades of policies favoring the wealthy.
Protests are healthy in a democracy, but these Tea Parties are a phony grassroots “Astroturf” campaign, orchestrated by anti-tax, anti-government groups. Click here to uncover the truth of these campaigns and learn more.
Interested in raising awareness of human rights violations? The Human Rights City toolkit is now available to help transform your city into a Human Rights City.
Chester Hartman, an IPS associate fellow and the founding
Executive Director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, has
commissioned and edited a set of essays for the Mandate for Change
Project. The volume offers a set of specific policy proposals for the
incoming national administration on every major domestic and international
topic, written specifically for the book by leading thinkers and activists in
the field.
Groups of activists and organizers are calling for a conference entitled The City From Below, to take place in Baltimore during the weekend of March 27th-29th, 2009 at 2640, a grassroots community center and events venue.
02/11/09 Bring the Guard Home! Lobby Night in Annapolis
Join a coalition of 24 organizations across the state of Maryland to urge the Maryland General Assembly to pass legislation requiring that the Maryland National Guard be used only for legal purposes on February 23 in Annapolis.
At its 2008 Annual Meeting, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM)
unanimously adopted a resolution put forward by Mayors for Peace
entitled "Support for the Elimination of All Nuclear Weapons by the
Year 2020."
Cities for Progress is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. For more than four decades, IPS has transformed ideas into action for peace, justice, and the environment as the nation's oldest progressive multi-issue think tank. http://www.ips-dc.org.
