Fair Budget Coalition DC
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Fair Budget Coalition fights for a just & inclusive DC budget. RTs/❤️s are not endorsements or policy recommendations. Same name on Bluesky and Instagram.
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Joined July 2010
Last night, we lit the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in a shade of purple to honor Domestic Violence Awareness Month and National Bullying Prevention Month. 💜 Let’s keep building a DC where everyone feels safe, supported, and part of a community. #PurpleThursday #DDOTDC
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This report from @CCE_for_DC is yet another flashing red light about conditions at DC's youth jail. https://t.co/SDMw4KNqtV In short, the facility's way over capacity because DC can't find enough treatment facilities to transfer out the increasing number of kids tried as adults.
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"What’s happening in the nation’s capital is a harbinger of worsening political repression." https://t.co/Cg7eKhXzKv
@FairBudgetDC @Center4EconDem
nonprofitquarterly.org
National Guard occupation of the nation’s capital is being used as a test case for authoritarianism. Local residents are mobilizing, but they need national support.
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Read more in our recently released and co-written op-ed with @Center4EconDem in @npquarterly: https://t.co/yZvMRMmkgA
nonprofitquarterly.org
National Guard occupation of the nation’s capital is being used as a test case for authoritarianism. Local residents are mobilizing, but they need national support.
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Have you seen federal troops in your communities even after they're *technically* supposed to be gone? You can thank @MayorBowser for that. Swipe through ➡️to learn how DC's local leadership paved the way for indefinite occupation and what that means for DC residents.
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Surprise, surprise: the moment i-82 was repealed, Dacha lowered everyone's wage from $18 to $10. Menu prices are the same.
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Compelling reasons to center housing security in our local budgeting decisions...
This is an important long read for today: @James_R_Jarvis and @taymnichols reporting for @51stnews on the difficult situation many D.C. tenants face with a shortage of affordable housing, stricter eviction laws, and less government assistance.
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Fair Budget Coalition is hiring! We’re growing our team with two Deputy Directors who will help sustain our collective work for budget justice in DC. View listings and apply here: https://t.co/Vet5TJXFKH
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Our Constituent Leadership Program (CLP) fellows are headed to the Wilson building next Thursday October 16 to make sure @councilofdc knows what the people want out of the upcoming FY 27 DC budget 🗣️💰 Learn more about our CLP and its role as an accountability tool for FBC:
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Transit upgrades will be necessary to ensure that the new RFK is the best stadium in the US and the new surrounding neighborhoods are connected to the rest of the city and region. Let’s do it!
NEW: Metro asking for $2 million to study potential transit upgrades around the RFK stadium site. This could include a new station altogether and a tunnel that connects to a new “riverfront district” at the site. @nbcwashington #wmata
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Big protest from immigrant organizers in the Wilson Building today demanding an end to MPD cooperation with ICE. A spicy banner, too.
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Thank you @CMCHenderson, @BrianneKNadeau, @CMLewisGeorgeW4, @CMRobertWhiteDC, & @trayonwhite for standing w/ youth during this heightened time of law enforcement presence. We know that any expansion of local police power is an expansion of federal power. Unnecessary police and
NEWS: The D.C. Council just rejected an emergency bill that would have extended the summer's expanded youth curfew for another three months. The votes against came from @trayonwhite, @CMRobertWhiteDC, @BrianneKNadeau, @CMLewisGeorgeW4, and @chenderson.
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So almost the entire D.C. Council is now meeting being closed doors to negotiate how to proceed on the expanded youth curfew emergency bill. It seems pretty clear they are negotiating legislation behind closed doors, in violation of the spirit of the city’s Open Meetings Act.
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Next? @ChmnMendelson @CMZParker5 Fund ample, high quality youth programs so that kids have engaging, safe, enriching places to be! @BlackSwanAcad @WeAreDCAction @EmpowerEdDC
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It’s urgent for lawmakers to find ways to protect residents from federal criminalization and targeting. Here’s one! We thank @trayonwhite @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @CMRobertWhiteDC @BrianneKNadeau @CMCHenderson for blocking an extension of the emergency bill authorizing the youth curfew
NEWS: The D.C. Council just rejected an emergency bill that would have extended the summer's expanded youth curfew for another three months. The votes against came from @trayonwhite, @CMRobertWhiteDC, @BrianneKNadeau, @CMLewisGeorgeW4, and @chenderson.
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Monumental says it's having trouble meeting environmental goals with a tight timeline/the challenges of retrofitting a 30-year-old arena. But regulators say they company needs to get more creative if they're gonna get $515m in taxpayer funds.
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In short, it has to do with the RENTAL Act, which speeds some evictions and curtails some tenant rights as a means to encourage more housing investment. It was passed last month, but there was a pretty significant last-minute change made.
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The documentary "Cracked Shells" focuses on D.C.'s rapid gentrification and displacement of longtime — often Black — residents, centering the voices of community organizers, activists, and business owners. @christurdisani spoke with director Ruth Tedla:
51st.news
We interview the filmmaker behind “Cracked Shells.”
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