GOING LOCAL: How Communities Across the Nation Are Fighting Back.

Date01 August 2018
AuthorDavis-Cohen, Simon

In the age of Donald Trump, some of the most significant political battles are taking place on the local level. Municipalities are struggling to raise wages and protect immigrants. School districts are subject to state takeovers across the nation. And efforts like the Community Rights Movement are seeking to upend the legal structures that allow private corporations to trump local law-making. From coast to coast, locally focused movements are finding innovative ways around restrictive top-down policies, showing that cities, towns, and counties can remain engines of progressive power.

1 Georgia: Promoting Sanctuary

Georgia is one of ten states to prohibit sanctuary city policies or require cities to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in some way. This has not stopped the Georgia #NotlMoreDeportation Coalition from working with municipalities to do what they can. According to Project South, the cities of Decatur and Clarkston, as well as Fayette, DeKalb, Clayton, Fulton, and Clarke Counties, have all passed policies to require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide an actual warrant before local law enforcement can detain individuals on their behalf.

2 Portland, Oregon: Seeking Climate Action

A city of Portland ballot measure would create a 1 percent surcharge on in-city revenue for businesses that make more than $1 billion per year and ring up more than $500,000 annually in Portland sales. If passed, the measure would raise roughly $30 million per year for a...

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