Current Campaigns
The Under 3 DC Coalition works to ensure parents can receive affordable and quality childcare. Children deserve a strong beginning and a limitless future. Under 3 DC harnesses the voices and power of parents with young children, caregivers, and others to create transformative social change. Under 3's efforts center on the people experiencing racial and economic injustice every day. We shine a spotlight on the need for more public investments in the programs, services and workforce necessary to support families with infants and toddlers.
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#MyDCMyFuture started to include our little ones in decisions that will impact their lives. The youngest DC residents share what they want to see funded in the DC budget via video and drawings.
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COVID-19 relief has not reached everyone in need. Excluded workers are undocumented residents, day laborers, sex workers, street vendors, returning citizens, and other workers in the informal economy who have all been locked out of unemployment benefits and other cash assistance. We support the series of efforts to demand action from the DC government.
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Tell DC Council to vote NO on the proposed budget because it does nothing to hold MPD accountable or move us towards a safer DC. Only the complete defunding of MPD and the removal of police from our schools (by transferring the school security contract from MPD to DCPS) will protect our community from police brutality.
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COVID-19 has put us all in a swirl, and slowly, we are managing to push forward through the pain, and the weird times to keep fighting for DC residents. After frequent conversations with council members, it's becoming more evident we need to ensure we fight hard for racial equity. A few months ago, we discussed a TAX DAY action for the DC Council, as of today we have decided the primary target is Chairmen Phil Mendelson. Our previous plans included person to person interaction and to follow health regulations, we have switched this to be completely digital.
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No one should be homeless. No one should be homeless for years. The Way Home is a campaign to end chronic homelessness in D.C. On any given night, there are 1,500 individuals experiencing chronic homelessness in D.C. – which means they've been homeless repeatedly or for years and struggle with a long-term health condition. These are some of our most vulnerable residents.
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"We Condemn the Antidemocratic Inclusion of the Rent Control Provision in the Budget Support Act
Reclaim Rent Control rejects a bare-bones reauthorization of our broken rent control system. The current system facilitates the systematic displacement of Black and brown families, contributes to unsustainable housing costs, and empowers landlords at the expense of tenants. That’s why we were deeply disappointed in the addition of reauthorization of our insufficient rent control to the DC budget and the discussion among members of the DC Council during the first vote on the Budget Support Act. Last night, Chairman Mendelson surprised the Council and the public by unilaterally adding a 10-year extension of our broken rent control system to the Budget Support Act. This action short-circuits the democratic process already in motion that would allow the Council to improve rent control while reauthorizing. Rent control must be reauthorized, but only with significant improvements." |
"D.C spends over $34 million a year to police and criminalize our youth. The police that are killing Black people in the streets and harassing Black youth in the community, are the same police that are in our schools. We are demanding police-free schools!
Police do not keep students safe. Their presence increases the likelihood that Black youth will be criminalized, arrested or imprisoned for adolescent behavior or responses to trauma. Because of this: D.C. police harass and handcuff Black youth as young as 9 years old. 92% of school based arrest are of Black students. Black girls in D.C are 30 times more likely to be arrested than white youth of any gender identity. 60% of girls arrested in D.C are under the age of 15, and many are disciplined and referred to police for their responses to experiencing sexual violence." |
"COVID-19 is forcing the country’s economy into a nosedive. And working-class black families are especially vulnerable to evictions as they are laid off from their work, even while our leaders continue to bail out corporations. At ONE DC we know we need to resist these policies together to demand real relief. We deserve a better future where everyone has a right to housing, so we are taking ACTION to demand that rent and mortgage payments for renters and homeowner be cancelled for the period of the pandemic, with NO NEW DEBT."
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Past Campaigns