Action Institute Nc

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“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Health Care: We helped organize a statewide coalition under Health Care for America Now to pass the Affordable Care Act, and have organized numerous public events since then to promote public understanding of the laws benefits and enrollment. We are fighting for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina and organized a number press events, petition deliveries, and actions at the General Assembly and governors office in 2014 in support. We have also led a coalition and organized public events to oppose cutting Medicare benefits, raising the retirement age, or changing cost-of-living-adjustment formulas that would reduce benefits. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Immigrant Rights: In 2014 we waged a successful campaign to win volunteer privileges for undocumented parents in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system through a series of public hearings and community mobilization. As far as we could tell, it was the only major school system in the nation that previously had shut undocumented parents out completely from their own childrens schools. We have also helped prevent a number of unjust deportations and family separations, mobilized thousands of supporters in 2013 and 2014 in support of comprehensive immigration reform, and hundreds more so far in 2015 in opposition to North Carolinas participation in the lawsuit to undo the Presidents Executive Action to reduce deportations. In 2014 we were co-conveners of a local coalition in Charlotte to promote Municipal IDs, and also in 2014 helped win changes in a Charlotte food truck vendor ordinance that had put most immigrant vendors out of business through zoning restrictions that disproportionately affected the areas in which they operated. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Neighborhood Quality of Life: We have fought for and won a number of neighborhood infrastructure, city service, crime and safety, and zoning improvements, and we participate in the annual city budget process to encourage investment in undeveloped, low-wealth communities. We are currently campaigning to promote mixed-use, affordable housing development along transit corridors as well as reducing blight by streamlining the process for getting abandoned housing to non-profit developers. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Tax & Budget Reform: We have opposed drastic cuts to the social safety net, education and teacher pay, community health care and other programs and services vital to low-wealth communities. We have also promoted modernization of the state revenue system and a more progressive tax code that doesnt favor the wealthy and corporations. We have worked with partners to get thousands of people to sign petitions calling on state government to stop drastic tax cuts and other budget reductions that erode the safety net. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: Tenant Rights and Affordable Housing: We have organized in a number of apartment complexes and mobile home parks. Our numerous victories have included fines for and repair of unsafe and unsanitary conditionsmost of them in direct violation of housing codesan end to gouging in collection of water and utility bills and overcharging on rent, with substantial rebates in several instances ordered by state authorities, the prevention of disparate, abusive treatment of immigrant tenants, and change in management in complexes with longstanding problems. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 9: Voting Rights & Engagement: We promote non-partisan electoral participation and voter protection among traditionally disenfranchised and under-represented constituencies. We have worked on our own and with other groups to oppose racial gerrymandering, are active in North Carolinas State Voices table, have mobilized against voter suppression laws targeted at young persons, seniors, and voters of color, and challenged North Carolinas failure to meet the requirements of the National Voting Rights Act. In 2014 we knocked on over 8,000 doors and made over 7000 phone calls to increase voter participation among”