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NYPAN
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+ Racial equity political education
THE WORK:
New YORK STATE PROGRESSIVE ACTION NETWORK
BACK TO PORTFOLIO
- What ARE reparations?
- Why should we do reparations?
- Why are reparations important to YOU?
- What form can reparations take?
- What are the things people say are difficult about doing this? What’s standing in the way?
#REPARATIONSNOW
Racial equity, Reparations, and Narrative framing
KEY WORDS
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OFFFERINGS
NYPAN, the New York Progressive Action Network, was founded in December of 2016, following the 2016 elections. The founding chapters were all grassroots organizations that had formed during the Bernie Sanders campaign in New York. Volunteers in these organizations, many of them entirely new to politics, became heavily involved in their communities, built networks, and made lasting friendships. At the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, representatives from these grassroots organizations met up and decided that, even though the primary was over, the movement was too important to abandon. They chose a time and location to meet again, back in New York, where they voted to incorporate and set up a 501(c)4 organization.
NYPAN began with 16 chapters, and has grown in the past four years to include over 30 chapters and affiliates. Although the founding chapters came from the Bernie Sanders campaign, NYPAN has welcomed progressive chapters and affiliates of all stripes, including Black Lives Matter of Greater New York. Other affiliates include a number of unions, the Jim Owles Democratic Club (an LGBTQ organization), the 504 Democrats (a disability rights organization), and Life of Hope (a support organization for Haitian immigrants).
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