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For Immediate Release<\/b> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ienearth\/photos\/p.10156239054925642\/10156239054925642\/?type=1&theater For Immediate Release March 23, 2020 Seven Congressional Leaders Join 450+ Progressive Organizations to Demand People\u2019s Bailout in Response to Coronavirus Crisis Dear Colleague letter to Congressional leaders calls for \u201cdown payment\u201d on green economy WASHINGTON D.C — Indigenous Environmental Network is participating in a large coalition that is developing the \u201cFive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,1],"tags":[18,86,118,77,170,17],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","category-organizations","category-updates","tag-116th","tag-congress","tag-energy","tag-house","tag-ien","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMarch 23, 2020<\/p>\n
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\nSenator Ed Markey, Senator Tammy Duckworth, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Mark Pocan, Rep. Debbie Dingell, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and Rep. Barbara Lee join more than 450 progressive organizations across the country to launch a new People\u2019s Bailout campaign to push Congress to focus on the needs of working people and to address the urgent threat of climate change in any federal response to the coronavirus crisis.
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\nAs reports warn of unemployment rates hitting over 2 million Americans soon, the advocates\u2019 push for a People\u2019s Bailout laid out demands in a letter sent by the seven progressive lawmakers to fellow lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate for any coronavirus response legislation, including providing economic relief directly to people, forbidding bailouts for corporate executives, and encouraging investment in a green economy.
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\n\u201cWe will not let Congress leave anyone behind — especially our Native nations and Indigenous peoples living in urban cores. Indigenous peoples will be among those hit the hardest and it\u2019s time for the U.S. administration and policymakers to step up and do what’s right in fulfilling its legal obligations to our Native nations who are experiencing shortfalls in essential health care and financial crisis by this unprecedented global pandemic.,\u201d said Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network.
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\n\u201cAs we work to advance further spending packages to ensure immediate relief and long-term recovery, we need to consider the interrelated crises of income and wealth inequality, racism, and ecological decline, which were in place long before COVID-19, and now risk being intensified,\u201d reads the Dear Colleague letter sent by Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Pocan, Dingell, Jayapal, and Lee.<\/b>
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\n\u201cOpportunists in the fossil fuel industry are looking to benefit from the chaos and pain frontline communities who opposed their extractive projects are experiencing right now. This is a moment for policy makers to pivot to a just stimulus bill that centers Black, Indigenous, people of color,.\u201d said Bineshi Albert, Coordinator of Indigenous Movement Building for the Indigenous Environmental Network. \u201cWe will be heard or Washington will be held accountable.\u201dFor more information on the Just Stimulus push, including for a full list of participating organizations, click here: https:\/\/www.thepeoplesbailout.