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JC Legal Resources Center, Inc. is a Milwaukee-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting civic education, advocacy, and entrepreneurship by providing affordable legal resources. We strive to preserve the independence, hope, and dignity of low-income and at-risk individuals by addressing inequities such as limited economic opportunities and health disparities. Through high-quality legal research, education, and community partnerships, we are committed to fostering a fair and just legal system for all.
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In this new political context, non-profit organizations and environmental justice are under attack. We already see the chilling effects of political intimidation from lawmakers and the broader public, but we can’t let that deter us. Our communities depend on our collective action.
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As of today, Climate Justice Alliance’s (CJA) UNITE-EJ program, which was selected as a national grantmaker for the EPA's Environmental Justice Thriving Communities program (a part of the Inflation Reduction Act) HAS NOT YET RECEIVED the funds for the program that must be obligated by December 6, 2024.
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These funds will be used to address air and water quality, lead and other toxins clean-up, green infrastructure, food access, emergency preparedness, and more..
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Despite being a top-scoring applicant to the grantmaking role, meeting every milestone, and currently leading communities of practice for the entire program, including quality assurance, technical assistance, and communications and outreach, CJA has not received the funds, nor been told why.
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>>> The federal government must release the Thriving Communities funds by December 6. If they don’t, they are setting a dangerous precedent to defy democratic process and the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Can you help us ensure that we get these needed resources to frontline communities and supportive institutions that are building climate resiliency, energy democracy, food sovereignty, and community power today?
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(5 min) Make a social media video about the importance of resourcing our neighborhoods, our communities, our climate projects with our template and scripts, to activate your networks and friends. Here’s a toolkit that is quick and easy to help you. You just need your phone!
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(2 min) Ask Your Lawmakers to pressure the EPA and the White House to release these obligated funds using our click-to-call action (with phone script) and by sending this click-to-email letter to your Democratic representatives. *Don’t worry if you do not have Democratic legislators, your message will be sent to Democratic leadership.
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Nationwide and in Wisconsin, the number of racial discrimination complaints by Black workers was far higher than any other type of racial discrimination, with a rate of about 466 federal complaints per 100,000 Black workers in Wisconsin.
Professor Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and doctoral student Carly McCann analyzed never-before released data from the EEOC, finding 63% of workers lose their jobs through either termination, resignations, or some other form of being pushed out of the job where they said discrimination occurred. Complaint data is not routinely made public; the EEOC only publishes data related to lawsuits–and denied News 3 Investigates similar data.
“In some ways, this is kinda a fundamental problem around the discrimination claims generally,” Tomaskovic-Devey said. “There’s not much transparency.”
Tomaskovic-Devey and McCann’s analysis of hundreds of thousands of discrimination complaints to the EEOC in 2012 through 2016 finds Wisconsin ranking 6th in the country for the number of complaints filed for racial discrimination against Black people.
Researchers say the majority of discriminatory behavior doesn’t result in federal complaints.
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Our mission is to preserve the independence, hope and dignity of the low-income and at-risk people we serve. This can only be accomplished by calling attention and objecting to the many obstacles that are in place for communities of color. Our clients, staff, volunteers and supporters know that we are committed to face this challenge. In doing so, we listen to our community, oppose racism, and promote a fair and just legal system for all. Our mission has brought us to fight against inequities from denial of fair economic opportunities to health disparities and more. We remain committed to justice through high-quality legal research services, education, and community partnerships. Today we commit to courageous conversations and training on racism in our community outreach. JC Legal Resources Center, INC is dedicated to promoting equality, racial equity and access to justice.
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The Wisconsin Constitution, engenders upon each of a duty to protect the rights of others.
" All people are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; to secure these rights, governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. "
Wisconsin Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 1,
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