Coalition on Human Needs

01/20/2021

We look forward to the first 100 days of Biden Administration.

01/20/2021

Senate. Budget. Committee. Chairman. Bernard Sanders.

01/19/2021

90 years apart, same energy. Why? Tell us in the comment 👇

01/15/2021

📉 Our economy lost 140,000 jobs in December- @usdol

Women lost 156,000 jobs,
while men gained 16,000 jobs.

meaning that the net number of jobs lost were held entirely by women; and they were overwhelmingly women of color.

✨Illustrations from Mona Chalabi 🙏🏽

01/11/2021

Just some accurate lines from a comedy that does not seems funny after January 6, 2020.

📽 “The Dictator” Sacha Baron Cohen

01/08/2021

Jan. 6, 2021: What is at stake, and who must be held accountable.

Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 never had to happen. And yet, given the obstruction of some elected officials — from the outgoing President to some members of Congress — it was almost inevitable.

Protestors, egged on by Trump and encouraged by obstructionists in Congress, overran and occupied the U.S. Capitol – the first time the 220-year-old building had suffered such sacrilege since British troops partly burned it in 1814.

More on our #VoicesForHumanNeeds blog:

The obstructionists have empowered white nationalists who now commit violence, while blaming anyone who opposes their agenda of hate.

01/05/2021

Poder Latinx

#AllEyesOnGeorgia

Today, amidst the pandemic & a crucial upcoming election in #Georgia. we are excited to introduce “Las Poderosas” because every Latina is a superhero. We are here together to create change for our families and communities when we participate, we vote.

Thank you to #SomosArte, Aida Rodriguez, Maria Elena Salinas, Cristela Alonzo, MayaintheMoment and Las Cafeteras.

12/24/2020

It's increasingly clear that if Trump doesn't sign the #COVIDRelief & Omnibus funding bill, we will face:
⚠️weeks of interrupted unemployment benefits
⚠️eviction moratorium ended and no renter relief
⚠️looming threat of a govt. shutdown
⚠️inadequate distribution of vaccines

Mr. President @realdonaldtrump, SIGN IT! Sign the bill.
While you sit in comfort, millions are threatened w/ eviction, millions of workers will lose pay, and more lives will be put in harm's way. We need #COVIDReliefNOW!

12/23/2020

Network Lobby

President Trump is threatening to let the government shutdown and COVID-19 relief programs expire. We need you to call your Senators TODAY and tell them to increase the COVID-19 stimulus payment to $2,000 to keep the government open and provide critical funds to unemployed workers and families. Call now: 888-496-3502

12/23/2020

✅ YOU WANT TO HELP THE GA RUNOFF ELECTIONS?
✅ FROM YOUR HOUSE?
Please consider phonebank volunteering.
Our allies at GALEO.org are looking for volunteers. They will host a phonebanking training next Tues, Dec. 29th. To sign up/ for more info email Elizabeth Silva at [email protected]

12/23/2020

📌📌📌 Things we have learnt (or reinforced) over the course of the pandemic:
➡️ Black, Latino and other households of color are more likely to experience food insufficiency and rent hardship.
➡️ Black workers are more likely work front-line jobs.
➡️ Unemployment is high, with job losses in low-paid industries.
➡️ Many jobless folkx cannot get through the system to file for unemployment benefits.
✅ Adequate #COVIDRelief is not just a public health issue, or an economic one. It’s also a racial justice issue. People of color are, again, bearing the brunt of this pandemic, while working the front-lines to protect America. This chorus has pretty much been on repeat🔂 throughout our history.

BOTTOMLINE: Congress must pass the long-overdue aid, and override the President if need be.

Graphs from Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

12/22/2020

💝 Our partner in Georgia- GALEO.org is writing holiday cards to Latinx voters and encouraging them to vote in the January run-offs.
🖋 Join GALEO sending well-wishes to our friends in GA with this link: bit.ly/galeofelicesfiestas sign up before Dec 27th!

Join us for this holiday volunteer project! Deadline to sign up to participate is December 27th. For more info and to register, visit bit.ly/galeofelicesfiestas (link in bio!)
Únase a nosotros para este proyecto de voluntariado navideño! La fecha límite para inscribirse es el 27 de diciembre. Para más información y para registrarse, visite bit.ly/galeofelicesfiestas (el enlace esta en nuestro bio)
#iamGALEO #gapol #GALatinoVote

12/21/2020

⚡️NEWSFLASH: $600 stimulus checks would not cover a family's average rent in any state. 😳

12/21/2020

Statement: CHN URGES SWIFT ENACTMENT OF THE “LONG OVERDUE” COVID-19 RELIEF PACKAGE.

The #COVIDRelief bill is long overdue, and Congress must pass it. Yet, it is FAR from all that is needed.

CHN and our members are thankful that millions of the jobless will continue to receive unemployment aid, that the eviction moratorium has been extended, and that $25B in emergency rental assistance has been included.

We are glad to see for the increase in SNAP and other nutrition aid, the $600 payment for millions of families, and mixed-status immigrant families. The package also includes assistance for schools, child care, vaccine distribution support, access to broadband, etc.

On paid leave, employers will get a tax credit for providing, but there is no requirement that they do so. PL remains a vital strategy to keep people safe and economically whole. Congress has not done enough to secure it for millions of people.

It is also very short-sighted to refuse to help states and localities trying to cope with lost revenues while carrying out essential, frontline functions. Not funding our states and cities is a major failure of this relief package.

The pandemic’s impact on our nation’s health and economy has been harsh and the recovery will not be swift. In January, the new #BidenHarris Administration and the new Congress must immediately work to remedy the failings and expand the important help about to be provided.

12/21/2020

REMINDER: social distancing comfortably and working from home is a privilege.
🎄 🎁 This Holidays season, please consider sharing your comfort by donating to local organizations for the jobless and houseless.
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If you can, search your local shelter via this site, and donate items on this list: https://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/article.cgi?article=14

12/19/2020

Last August, Paige McConnell became the first in her family to enroll in college, signing up for classes at Tennessee’s Roane State Community College. Two weeks later, she dropped out.

McConnell, 18, could not make online classes work for her. She does not have WiFi at her rural home in Crossville, Tenn. She tried to go to the library, but their services were curtailed due to the pandemic. She even spent hours in a McDonald’s parking lot, using the restaurant’s Internet, but she kept getting kicked off the network.

McConnell is hardly alone. More written by Grace Mulamba on CHN's #VoicesForHumanNeeds blog.

https://www.chn.org/voices/community-colleges-and-covid-19-a-disturbing-educational-opportunity-gap-is-emerging/

12/18/2020

🎄It's not a #Christmas list if we need it to survive.

The Senate needs to extend UI, eviction moratorium, and more ASAP. If not, the U.S. will lose 5.1 more jobs due to decrease in spending, and face a wave of eviction- in the middle of a pandemic.

Stimulus checks are urgently needed to trigger spending, and revitalize the economy. This time, immigrants & mixed-status families MUST be included in any new #COVIDRelief stimulus payments. Last time, they were not.

🤷🏻‍♀️ Economy can't move ahead if we exclude immigrants- a major, critical part of our economy.

📱 text "RELIEFNOW" to 747464 to tell your Senators #ReliefCantWait anymore.

12/18/2020

Toomey Fed demand rocks coronavirus relief bill talks - Roll Call

STIMULUS TALK UPDATE:
Senator Pat Toomey is holding up negotiations by introducing a far-reaching restrictions on the Fed at the last minute, jeopardizing urgently needed help for the jobless, distribution of the vaccines, help to small biz, etc. Sen. Toomey is recklessly risking a gov't shutdown as well as loss of jobless aid and eviction protections. This move threatens the economy while at the same time tying the hands of the Fed. to respond. Mitch McConnell needs to reject this, and deliver the needed aid.

📱 text "RELIEFNOW" to 747464 to tell your Senators #ReliefCantWait anymore.

Negotiations on a coronavirus relief package appeared to hit an eleventh-hour setback Friday over a dispute involving Federal Reserve lending authority.

12/17/2020

COVID-19 Watch: #TrackingHardship December 17

🚨 If Congress allows unemployment benefits to stop on Dec. 26, the U.S. could lose 5.1 million jobs due to a decrease in consumer spending.

In other words: 🌘THE NIGHTMARE "AFTER" CHRISTMAS.
COVID #ReliefCantWait anymore, we need it NOW! https://www.chn.org/voices/covid-watch-dec-17/

Senators, the people cannot wait anymore. #DoYourJob and pass a comprehensive, and meaningful COVID-19 relief package.

12/17/2020

💰 The wealth of 644 U.S. billionaires grew roughly $931 Billion in the first 6 months of the pandemic– a 32% increase.

Meanwhile, families are getting evicted during the Holidays, people are stealing food just to get by, and thousands are dying everyday. Yet, the Senate are holding up COVID relief because they worried that corporations may not get immunity from COVID lawsuits?

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cartoon credit: Tom Toro

12/15/2020

Today is the LAST DAY to enroll in a 2021 plan! Don’t miss your chance to shop, compare, and enroll in a plan for next year. Hurry! https://go.hc.gov/3gDbIh8

Today is the LAST DAY to enroll in a 2021 plan! Don’t miss your chance to shop, compare, and enroll in a plan for next year. Hurry! https://go.hc.gov/3gDbIh8

12/14/2020

With the Holidays coming, we MUST provide unemployment aid and financial help to Americans struggling. We need a comprehensive COVID relief package.

But Sen. McConnell is holding up the critical assistance. Why? To provide corporations a free pass when they push and hurt people. #PEOPLEOVERPROFIT

🗣 Tell your Senator, we need #COVIDReliefNOW and #NoCorporateImmunity: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-the-senate-we-are-facing-a-national-emergency-and-public-health-crisis

12/14/2020

✅🚙 Free ride to the polls for students in Atlanta!
NACA - Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America Atlanta NAACP

Today is the FIRST day of #EarlyVoting, make your plan to beat the crowd and vote safely. #GARunOff

The Atlanta NAACP helped register over 600 APS Students to VOTE for the first time. Now it’s time to MOVE, and get them to the polls!!!We have transportation availble. Please spread the info to all area student. We doing this in partnership with NACA - Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America Atlanta Hawks
#Election2020 #senaterunoffs #TrueToAtlanta

12/14/2020

1918 quote. 2020 relevance. #MaskUpAmerica

12/10/2020

WaPo: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out in the pandemic

Stealing to survive. Yes, you read that right. And it is heartbreaking how we got to this place, as Congress continues to play politics and stall on the next COVID relief package.

"Jean, 21, was successfully juggling college and a job, and had just bought her first car, when the pandemic crashed down. Her son’s day-care center suddenly closed in April, forcing her to give up her $15-an-hour job as a receptionist. But quitting meant she didn’t qualify for unemployment benefits. She says she was denied food stamps at least three times and gave up on local food banks because of the lines.

With no stimulus aid and her savings gone by May, Jean said she was out of options. So she began sneaking food into her son’s stroller at the local Walmart. She said she’d take things like ground beef, rice or potatoes but always pay for something small, like a packet of M&M’s. Each time, she’d tell herself that God would understand."

12/09/2020

VoteRiders

VoteRiders

Voting is happening *right now* in Georgia’s U.S. Senate Runoffs!

Volunteer with VoteRiders and help send personal letters with voter ID info directly to folks who need it.

It's all happening TONIGHT at 7 PM ET! Amy Schumer is in! Are you?

RSVP NOW 🍑 💌 ⬇️

http://voteriders.org/write

12/09/2020

🍑 Georgia has one of the country’s strictest voter ID laws AND a U.S. Senate election happening RIGHT NOW that will determine the path forward for all of us.

Our partner VoteRiders are calling for phone-bank volunteers to to help ensure the every GA voter has the ID and information they need to cast a ballot that counts.

Join VoteRiders this THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10TH AT 7 PM ET (4 PM PT): https://www.voteriders.org/call/

PLUS: Amy Schumer will stop by to cheer you on! 😉

12/07/2020

"HOW ARE YOU, WALL-E?"

🚨 Don’t be that person in 2040: “yea.. about 20 years ago, I had the ability to change the course of the country, but I forgot. Anyway, how are you, WALL-E?”

TODAY, 12/7, is the last day to register to vote for the January 5 runoff elections. Make your voting plan and check your registration status today at http://peachvote.com. 🗳 #

12/07/2020

📲text EVERYONE you know in GA NOW!

Because TODAY, 12/7, is the last day to register to vote for the January 5 runoff elections. Make your voting plan and check your registration status today at http://peachvote.com. 🗳 LINK ALSO IN BIO

12/07/2020

ALL EYES on GEORGIA 👀

GEORGIA: Today, 12/7, is the last day to register to vote for the January 5 runoff elections. Make your voting plan and check your registration status today at http://peachvote.com. 🗳

12/04/2020

“Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of ok for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

-Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

12/04/2020

Up next in fighting COVID-19: The challenges of rolling out vaccines

One-third of states said they were “greatly” or “completely” concerned about having sufficient supplies to administer vaccinations- according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Making a vaccine is hard, administering it nationwide will be harder. We need a comprehensive COVID package. #ReliefCantWait

Read more our #VoicesForHumanNeeds blog. Article written by our intern: Jaxzia Perez.

Making a vaccine is hard, administering it nationwide will be harder.

12/02/2020

💲⬆️ We don't hear people talking about "Trickle-up Economics". That's why the richest 5% of Americans own 2/3 (66%) of the nation's wealth, and three men own as much as the bottom half of Americans.

📣 TRICKLE-UP ECONOMICS, say it, get used to the phrase, talk about it, and change the culture.

12/02/2020

Just to be clear, we need these things BEFORE the pandemic. But now, it's a matter of life and death. Families across the country need help NOW during the #COVID19 pandemic!

📲 Text ReliefNow to 747464 to get connected to your Senator’s office to say “#ReliefCantWait!” #COVIDReliefNow MomsRising.org

12/01/2020

The 1% is the best money recycler around. 💰♻️