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Dear
Friends of Cities for Progress/Cities for Peace,
THE
MONTH OF MAY WAS A BUSY ONE FOR CfP. Cities for
Progress has helped allies in the fight for economic
and social justice by organizing venues on Capitol
Hill as well as in the Mid-West for an amplification
of Grassroots Remedies for the current Economic
Crisis. Below are highlights and links. Please read
and see what people around the nation are doing to
fix the problem brought to our communities by Wall
Street, greed and deregulation.
Also,
along with the Participatory
Budgeting Project, Cities for Progress is
helping Chicago's 49th Ward to implement the first
ever Participatory Budgeting process at the
municipal level in the U.S.! Highlights below!
Send
us your inspiring stories of Grassroots Remedies to
the Current Economic Crisis!
In
Peace and Solidarity,
Karen Dolan, karen@ips-dc.org
Pamela Giller, Pamela@ips-dc.org
Meltdown
in Detroit: Economic Collapse, a People's Plan for
Recovery
The
town hall discussion, at Ground Zero of the Economic
Crisis: co-hosted by IPS and The Nation,
took place on May 23 at Cobo Hall in Detroit and
drew a crowd of over 200. The panel examined local
solutions as well as the role of Detroit in the
national economy. Opening remarks were delivered by
Detroit Congressman Rep. John Conyers
and the discussion was moderated by The Nation
magazine's John Nichols.
Remedies
for Detroit
Panelist
and Detroit City Councilmember JoAnn Watson proposes
a Urban
Marshall Plan for Detroit.
Read
Pastor Bill Wylie-Kellerman's Sojourner article.
For
Press Coverage of the event please click the
following links:
Detroit
News
The
Detroiter
The
Nation
Voices
from the Front Lines of the Economic Crisis
IPS'
Cities for Progress organized representatives from
progressive poverty-fighting networks to testify at
an ad-hoc Congressional hearing on May 12 at 121
Cannon House Office Building. The
Congressional Progressive Caucus received their
testimony. This event was part of an effort to forge
a bold agenda that creates good jobs and advances
economic and environmental justice here and abroad.
For
video coverage of the event click
here.
Press
Coverage of the event:
Nation
blog
Free
Speech Radio
Links
to testimonies of witnesses at this event are posted
on the IPS website:
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/1276
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/1273
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/1272
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/1277
FIRST EVER IN THE U.S.!!
Chicago's
49th Ward Advances Participatory Budgeting (PB)
Participatory
Budgeting has been used as a tool to achieve higher
levels of equity and civic engagement in over 1,200
municipalities and public institutions worldwide,
except in the U.S. IPS' Cities for Progress and
The
Participatory Budgeting Project are facilitating
the process in Chicago. A workshop held on May 19th
in Chicago marked the next step toward the
implementation of PB this coming October which would
make Chicago's 49th ward the first municipality in
the United States to institute a PB process!
For
an overview of the process thus far click
here
Institute for Policy Studies is Awarded 2009 Hillman
Prize for Magazine Journalism
The
Hillman Prize was awarded to IPS for our June 30,
2008 collaborative article with The Nation
entitled, "The New Inequality." The
article was lauded by the Hillman Foundation as
"the best reporting and thinking
about…inequality."
For
more details please see The
Sydney Hillman Foundation website
National Priorities Project Fact Sheets
National
Priorities Project has just released a new set of
fact sheets that summarizes the impact of the Obama
budget at the national and state levels. They are
available here.
As
Obama's first 100 days as the president come to an
end, many Americans wonder has Obama started making
the changes that America is thirsting for. Although
it is difficult to fully evaluate Obama's progress
only after 3 months, the 100 day report gives
insight to the future on such issue as health care,
foreign policy and the economic crisis.
To
access the full report click here.
Peace,
Karen Dolan
Director, Cities for Peace and Cities for Progress
Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
Washington DC
karen@ips-dc.org
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Published by Cities for Progress/Cities for Peace, a
project of the Institute
for Policy Studies (IPS)
For more than four decades, IPS has transformed
ideas into action for peace, justice, and the
environment as the nation's oldest progressive think
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