“Nearly 82 percent of single taxpayers in Alabama make less than $40,000 annually,” said Alabama Arise Executive Director Kimble Forrister. Alabama Arise, one of PBN’s Alabama anchor organizations, has a goal in eliminating the state’s 4% grocery tax is to help lower-income Alabamians while also ensuring that the state funds they provide public education are retained for the schools.
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“The AG’s opinion could have far-reaching implications for New Mexico nonprofits,” said the New Mexico Independent today.
[South West Organizing Project, "SWOP,"] was instructed by the secretary of state to register as a political action committee four months ago without any explanation for how our work constitutes political activity,” Robby Rodriguez, SWOP executive director, said in a prepared statement.
“We still do not know what this decision is based on so we would like to know, along with Sen. McSorley apparently, and, we suspect, the rest of the nonprofit community, how the state defines political activity when it comes to our legitimate efforts to educate the public about the job their elected officials are doing.”
300-350 people who have been on the receiving end of the billion dollar cuts, including people with disabilities, teachers, state workers, and parents of autistic children, protested at Nevada’s state capitol building to tell the Governor and Legislators that further reductions in the state budget are unacceptable.
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (“PLAN”) presented a “Nevada Budget Planning Tool kit” comprised of band aids, bailing wire, duct tape and a beggers cup to the Governor, who speaker after speaker condemned for his lack of leadership in dealing with this crisis. Read More
From Nov. 1st through Nov. 5th, Jason and I documented and broadcast the Get-Out-the-Vote work in two key PBN states: Mississippi and New Mexico. Before we even set foot in the states, we had high expectations for this project.
For one thing, we wanted to give people a minute-by-minute account of what was happening on the ground. We wanted to let the voices of the people be heard as to why they were voting, what issues brought them to the polls, and what it felt like to engage their communities through door knocking and phone banking.
We wanted to capture the energy and momentum of what we knew in our gut was a historical moment: young and old working side by side at the doors, first time citizens casting a ballot, the record number of registrations and turnout of a peoples who have endured a historical legacy of disenfranchisement at the hands of our political institutions–African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, women, and young people.
We also wanted to spotlight the ingenious ways our partner organizations were merging their electoral work to build upon a grander vision.
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