Act LocallyTwo new groups check in to get listed in our "Act Locally" section:
More than 30 years old, Irish Northern Aid works for peace with justice in a reunited Ireland. The working-class civil rights organization has strong ties to organized labor and other human rights organizations. Regional Director Randolph Healy Cecil was a 19-year organizer for the late United Farm Worker president Cesar Chavez.
Membership meetings for the DC-area affiliate are held on the second Tuesday of each month at Flanagan's Pub in Bethesda. The local leadership is involved with Progressive Maryland, the ACLU, Kensington Neighbors for Peace, and Catholic Worker Houses in DC and Baltimore. Visit the group's DC-area website at www.inacmidatlantic.org.
Our Nation's Capital, a nonprofit corporation, works to educate the public about the serious financial imbalance in Washington, DC, that has been created by congressional action.
Given the constraints Congress has imposed on the city's ability to tax, the District of Columbia faces unique challenges to provide adequate levels of service to its residents, nonresident workers and visitors. Our Nation's Capital is building a coalition of interested individuals as well as business, labor and other groups to advance a dialog and advocate for change so that Washington can remain a city that every American is proud to call our nation's capital.
For more information about the commuter tax, DC's property tax burden, and other evidence of the structural fiscal imbalance imposed by Congress on the capital city, visit www.ournationscapital.org.
