“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail
Our Mission
At Louisiana Progress, we work with grassroots partners to identify real problems, develop effective solutions, and successfully advocate to turn those solutions into systemic change. We fight to make sure that state and local government works better for the interests of poor and working-class Louisianans, not the interests of the wealthy elite.
Our Work
We fight for the interests of people who don’t have the resources to hire advocates and lobbyists.
Using that approach, we have become recognized as an important leader in Louisiana politics by:
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Leading or co-leading campaigns to pass more than 25 state & local policies
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Mentoring & training more than 25 Louisiana undergraduate students through our College Fellows program
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Partnering with the Louisiana AFL-CIO to organize their local union affiliates, lead their GOTV campaigns, and successfully defeat the largest policy attack on unions that’s ever been launched in one state
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Building deep relationships with community members & leaders, and elected & government agency officials
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Helping our grassroots partners grow their political & strategic capacity
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Shaping the narrative on important issues through traditional & social media, publications, and research & data tools
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Shaping the narrative on important issues through extensive traditional & social media work, as well as our publications & website