Since we released our “A Matter of Survival” (AMOS) report in April, our policy and organizing team has been sharing it far and wide. From Children’s Defense Fund’s Hall-Proctor Conference to the Organizing Revivals in Philadelphia and New Mexico, we’re meeting with organizers, faith leaders, national organizing networks and others around both meeting our needs and building power.
Here you can find:
- The complete AMOS report, which shows how networks of care sustained communities through the pandemic and beyond. Also, find a mini-zine version for easy distribution.
- A Spanish translation of the Executive Summary
- A toolkit version for faith communities. This is part of the “Faithful Fight” series of toolkits curated by Protect Democracy.
A budget of brutality or the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”
Since July, we’ve been tracking the impact of the federal budget on our health care, food security, household spending and more. Below are some resources to help understand when these cuts are coming and how they’ll impact your local and state community.
Timeline of the budget’s impact
Some of the most devastating parts of the budget will take years to go into effect, which gives us time to organize ourselves in response
- A comprehensive OBBBA timeline, with filters for SNAP, Medicaid, student loans, and more.
Measuring the deadly budget’s impact
- Explore a Yale School of Public Health study showing that an estimated 51,000 people will die every year because of the health-related provisions in the budget.
- Read the Fiscal Policy Institute’s (FPI) study exploring OBBBA’s impact on New York’s health care system and finances.
- Review the Kairos Center’s compilation of resources that measure more state and local impacts of the budget.
Expanding systems of state violence and repression
This summer, we have witnessed an alarming escalation of state violence against protesters, unhoused people, immigrant communities and others across the country. These articles and resources offer expert analysis on this use of force and how it affects our democracy.
Occupation and Deportation
- From the Brennan Center, a backgrounder on President Trump’s use of the Posse Comitatus Act for domestic deployment
- The National Homelessness Law Center responds to Executive Order on Homelessness
- Also from the Brennan Center, how the OBBBA is creating a “deportation industrial complex” that will be increasingly difficult to dismantle
Profiteering
The expansion of funding for the military/law enforcement apparatus has meant larger payouts for corporations invested in war and repression.
- Read how billionaires from Silicon Valley and warmonger profiteers are benefitting.
- See also the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights’s report on corporate complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide in Palestine.
We know it doesn’t need to be this way.
Organize, organize, organize.
- In June, research showing the positive impact of the expanded Child Tax Credit on family health and well-being was published in the Journal of American Medicine Association’s Open Network. The article was jointly authored by researchers from Children’s Health Watch and the Kairos Center’s Shailly Gupta Barnes.
Poverty is a policy choice.
- Learn more about the organizing model of FreeDC, which is building across every ward in DC in response to current conditions, as they prepare for a long fight ahead.