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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 2021
Page
31
Editorial fellow Sofia Demartino argues Cedar Rapids must expand inclusive environmental justice efforts beyond policy, highlighting climate action plans, landlord incentives, and industry influence while stressing the need for diverse community input in decision making. She notes rental heaviness, BIPOC tenant concerns, and a nearly homogenous Climate Action Commission.
Susan Mims and Laura Bergus clash on police abolition as a long-term reform option. The column argues for systemic reform while warning abolition could undermine public safety, detailing 17 point resolution changes and ongoing ICPD reforms and co response efforts with mental health partners.
The article argues for using 1.3 billion of federal aid to aid Iowa’s marginalized groups, especially immigrant and low wage workers. It outlines a plan by the Excluded Workers Fund coalition led by Reverend Guillermo Trevino Jr. and Dr. Kathy Lee-Son to prioritize housing, transit and hazard pay while addressing inequities born of the pandemic. The plan targets undocumented immigrants, frontline workers, and previously incarcerated individuals through local and county investment without state action.
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