Praxis News and Notes goes beyond the headlines to provide in depth reporting from the frontlines. Check out this issue’s offerings including an investigation into Politics of Aid in Haiti, national efforts to change transportation policy, and a look at organizing for water rights in New Mexico.
Mainstreaming in the UK: Lessons for the US? From multiculturalism to structural racism and now, mainstreaming. Efforts to advance equity and equality in the United Kingdom have been shifting dramatically in the face of hard economic times and new political realities. Still, many of these policies provide powerful models for social justice advocates in the US.
Fair Game: A Strategy Guide for Racial Justice Communications in the Obama Era
The latest goings on at Praxis plus our roundup of the good, bad and the ugly on the issues that shape our work.
March 19, 2013 – Grassroots Social Justice groups and networks are changing the landscape of media strategy from the ground up according to a new report out today, Echoing Justice: Communications Strategies for Community Organizing in the 21st Century.
In a new report, Survival Denied: Stories from Alaska Native Families in a Broken System (co-authored by CCHE Grantee The Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments (CATG) and Alliance for a Just Society is a firm statement on the change needed for the families of over 260 tribes throughout the State of Alaska. The report details the ongoing legal morass between federal and state law.
"South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."
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Check out our blog, The Praxis Chronicles, an irreverent look at news and views as only Praxis and our extended family can break it down.
As the mark up of the 2012 Farm Bill is in its final stages this week (you read that right—the bill was supposed to be passed in 2012, and we’re nearing mid-year 2013!) poor people are in jeopardy of the cuts being made to the bill, and yet, there are other legal decisions and policies moving forward that mean big wins for Big Ag.
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Join the Praxis Project @ National Conference on Tobacco or Health
Marriott Kansas City Downtown - Imperial Ballroom
August 16th, 2012, 8pm-until...
Praxis Project Brings the Politics...and the party.
What: Roots and Remedies is an invitation only gathering. The aim is to collectively surface emerging and best practices to inform a policy centered agenda to connect the dots between critical issues like food sovereignty, the right and reclamation of public spaces, improving public schools, protecting human rights, increasing human mobility and more.
