Housing Newsletter
Welcome to the first installment of the Jews United for Justice housing newsletter! We are launching this (~monthly) newsletter to provide you with updates on what’s going on around housing in [...]
In Budget Advocacy, Education, Mont. County Budget, Mont. County Housing Justice, Mont. County Racial Equity & Policing, Montgomery County, MD, Police Accountability
Posted JUFJ’s Montgomery County FY22 Budget Demands
It’s budget season in Montgomery County! This is an opportunity to envision a Just Recovery for our County -- a recovery that provides dei machsoro, resources sufficient for each person’s needs, [...]
In Budget Advocacy, Education, Mont. County Budget, Mont. County Racial Equity & Policing, Montgomery County, MD, Police Accountability, Racial Equity
Posted Bonimot Tzedek Action Alert: Montgomery County Schools
Our partners at Bonimot Tzedek are asking for social workers to replace police in Montgomery County Public Schools
Action Alert: Fund DC Childcare
Tell Mayor Bowser to fund DC childcare
In #TestimonyTuesday, Budget Advocacy, Education, Mont. County Budget, Mont. County Racial Equity & Policing, Montgomery County, MD, Police Accountability
Posted #TestimonyTuesday: Phyllis Lerner: Students need Support, not Police in Schools
We need to move away from punitive hierarchies—systems which reflect racial inequities, as has been the case in Montgomery County. We must implement effective models of Restorative Justice.
In Budget Advocacy, COVID-19, Mont. County Budget, Mont. County Racial Equity & Policing, Montgomery County, MD, Police Accountability, Racial Equity
Posted Montgomery County Council Session Wrap Up – Summer 2020
JUFJ members raised our voices loudly and repeatedly during the Montgomery County Council's 2020 summer session, and in many cases the Council listened to us and to our partners. In this [...]
By Anita Lampel
In Budget Advocacy, COVID-19, Mont. County Budget, Mont. County Racial Equity & Policing, Montgomery County, MD, Police Accountability, Racial Equity
Posted Letter to Montgomery County Council: No Police in Schools
The Montgomery County Council voted whether or not to reduce the number of police officers in schools. Learn how they voted and read the letters JUFJ leaders wrote in response.
In Budget Advocacy, COVID-19, DC Affordable Housing, Just Recovery DC, Police Accountability, Racial Equity, Racial Equity DC, Under 3 DC, Washington, DC
Posted Report: #JustRecoveryDC and the budget
As Councilmembers Gray and Silverman said during DC Council meetings, this year’s budget session was an assortment of unmentionable expletives. But we made it through, with some important [...]
Posted
Action Alert: DC’s excluded workers are being left out again — support them
Urge DC Council to eliminate the entire Metropolitan Police Department budget increase, and to further cut the budget.
Policing in Baltimore City: Charter Amendment 19-0379
We must end the deadly over-policing of Black and brown people that is a key element of structural racism nationally. Nowhere is this truer than in Baltimore, where racially biased, corrupt, and [...]
