The Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC) is a grassroots community-based organization founded in 1979, dedicated to promoting sustainable development, revitalizing local communities, enhancing human dignity, creating effective democracy, and achieving economic, social & racial justice. LIPC is the Citizen Action of New York (CANY) affiliate on Long Island.
Affordable Housing
The LIPC has a campaign called YIMBY—Yes In My Backyard. We seek to build a movement to support affordable housing across Long Island by getting organizations to endorse YIMBY and turn their members out to support affordable housing. In addition to working with organizations we will be organizing individuals who need affordable housing and who support it in their communities.
Education
LIPC is organizing the local campaign of the statewide Alliance For Quality Education. We believe that every public school should provide a quality education to all its students by having smaller classes, qualified teachers, safe clean and technologically up to date classrooms, and early childhood education programs.
Government Efficiency
LIPC's Government Efficiency Project works to reduce the tax burden through consolidation and elimination of wasteful, dysfunctional special taxing districts. The nation's highest property taxes and abusive local government can become burdens of the past.
Energy
LIPC works to lower Long Island’s carbon footprint and pollution by teaching people how to lower their energy usage and by lobbying for a sustainable energy system. Repowering is a method where older, dirtier power plants are converted to use the most up to date technology. Not only do these plants release less pollutants but they produce more energy.
Sustainable Development
We see representative government as a way for a democratic community to control its own destiny. That means prioritizing human needs over corporate needs, at home and abroad.
Clean Money, Clean Elections
LIPC works to limit campaign spending and contributions. Clean Election Reform legislation establishes a system under which candidates in New York who agree to limit campaign spending and contributions and who collect a set amount of small contributions from voters, will receive a fixed and equal amount of public funding for their political campaigns.
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Events Save the Date September 17, 2011 Long Island Progressive Coalition presents its annual Leadership Conference.
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