The Baton Rouge Advocacy Coalition for
Economic and Racial Justice
A network and communication link
An initiative of the
Baton Rouge Council on Human Relations
An umbrella coalition
of groups that :
1. Have within
their general mission the following:
Promoting racial
justice and economic opportunity for all
Combating racism
2. Promote their
mission through some of the following:
Monitoring the political process
Educating the public
Advocating
Honoring those who exemplify this mission
Purpose of the
Coalition:
To increase the
effectiveness of those who advocate for racial and economic justice by
collaborating, by organizing advocacy efforts through the following means
1.
We will seek to identify organizations whose missions fall within this
advocacy umbrella and post a roster of organization profiles, the number
people they represent and contact information on our web site. We can learn
better what our total numbers are. This can provides an avenue for us to get to
know each other better.
2.
There is a need for a calendar of events by
coalition members. If a member would like to plan an event jointly, or
publicize one of their events, or avoid conflicting times for events, then the
roster and calendar would be a resource. There are now two new
web based event calendars rougepages.com and on the wafb.com website.
We propose that the Coalition use these sites rather than develop their own.
We will also try to develop email communication and/or web postings that point to the above event calendars.
3. A coalition
member may also wish to alert others to a critical issue that needs citizen
lobbying.
4.
After some
experience with this initial effort, we are open to consideration of other ways
of increasing our
voices.
How
will joining the
Coalition affect us?
There are no
requirements. Continue doing what you are doing. However you may wish to turn
to the coalition to increase your voice. Further, other coalition members may
reach out to you to increase their voice through you. We encourage all members
to have versatile communication methods with their members, including email and
a web site as we are striving to do.
Why the resolution?
This coalition is built
around the advocacy for one particular issue defined by the resolution.
Organizations may have broader priorities, but on this issue this advocacy
coalition can be a resource.
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