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.
Recent NewsSchneiderman picks up progressive backing in AG race September 2, 2010 AG candidate Eric Schneiderman continues his apparent Democratic primary strategy of identifying every group that tilts the slightest degree to the left, wrestling them to the ground and extracting an endorsement. Eric Schneiderman Supporters Campaign in Kathleen Rice Country September 2, 2010 A day after Nassau County DA and attorney general hopeful Kathleen Rice bashed rival Eric Schneiderman as soft on crime -- and the two camps got into it over a law to protect children from being lured into danger, Team Schneiderman is taking the fight almost literally to her doorstep. Long Island's Special Taxing Districts August 19, 2010 How outraged citizens are dumping the status quo: The Citizen Empowerment Act, shorthand for the new legislation, provides three routes to consolidation or dissolution... Wyandanch residents march to protest school cuts About 50 community residents and others participated in the rally, organized by local activists and the Long Island Progressive Coalition... Wyandanch residents rally for education funding Parents, students and school officials banded together in Wyandanch today to send a message to Albany lawmakers that they need education funding... YIMBY Supporters Rally for Huntington Project Supporters of a planned affordable housing project rallied outside Huntington Town Hall as a part of the “Yes In My Backyard,” or YIMBY campaign, on Monday evening. The approximately two dozen people in attendance were there to counter a previous protest of the Avalon Bay Transit Oriented Development project... |
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