Protecting transit riders and workers from COVID-19
Public Advocates and our partners in the Voices for Public Transportation coalition launched a campaign to keep transit workers and riders safe. Now several major transit agencies, from AC Transit to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, are providing masks and hand sanitizer on all their vehicles.
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Ensuring Quality Education During a Pandemic
Every student has a constitutional right to a quality education—and that doesn’t change even during a pandemic. Public Advocates is making sure schools are engaging their communities, being transparent, and planning for quality and equity in rolling out distance learning. We and the ACLU recently sent all districts and county offices in the state a letter outlining minimum legal obligations to students this year, which we hear many are using to calibrate local efforts. With the CA Partnership for the Future of Learning and other community partners, we trained over 300 local organizers, equipping them with the tools they need to make sure districts are meeting their legal obligations and engaging with parents in school decision-making, and developed resources for advocates.
And we’re working locally in individual districts. In Long Beach, for example, working with Children’s Defense Fund-California, Latinos in Action, Black Lives Matter-Long Beach, Long Beach Forward, and parent leaders, we won commitments for headsets for students who could not find quiet places to learn, expanded mental health and academic supports, and prompted improved multilingual communications and stakeholder engagement.
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California renters win protections from COVID-19 evictions!
Tenants struggling to pay rent because of coronavirus economic difficulties have protections from eviction under a new state law. With our partners, we've also analyzed what the Centers for Disease Control’s eviction ban means for our state's renters. Public Advocates has been advocating for the strongest possible protections for renters since the start of COVID-19 because no one should be evicted during a pandemic.
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The Public Advocates Endorsement Guide is Here!
On November 3rd we face what is likely the most critical election in recent history. If we don't get this right, there could be a devastating impact on health, economic, social and racial justice protections for millions of Californians, particularly low-income communities and people of color. Public Advocates produced this endorsement guide and we urge all eligible voters to register and vote. Click here to see our endorsement one-pager.
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Thank you for standing up to the Trump Administration and their attacks on the LGBTQ+ community
In a bigoted and cruel move, Secretary Ben Carson went back on his word to Congress and proposed a rule that would limit access to life-saving shelter for transgender people. 1 in 5 members of the transgender community will experience homelessness at some point in their lives: this is an emergency that requires HUD to open more doors, not shut people out.
Together with our friends at the Alliance for Housing Justice, we helped drive more than 1,000 comments to the federal register. Public Advocates is proud to be a co-founder of the Alliance for Housing Justice.
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The Voices of Conscience Fund: our civil rights war chest
Support for the Voices of Conscience Fund, now entering its third year, continues to grow. We're grateful to all our sponsors for leading the way and hope you will join us again in 2020. Public Advocates has created the Fund to direct 100% of your financial contribution to building the legal firepower necessary to fight for education, housing and transportation equity. Please click here to explore sponsorship levels.
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