Timeline
Pursuing Justice 2020 Online
Pursuing Justice 2020 Online took place amidst the coronavirus pandemic, increasing antisemitism, and the most critical election year of our lifetime.
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No Hate in the White House
From the moment Steve Bannon was announced as a Senior Advisor to President Trump, we fought against the normalization of his brand of bigotry in the White House.
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Victory: CA & NY Sanctuary States
We helped win a big victory for the resistance by making it harder for Trump’s deportation machine to tear apart immigrant families.
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We've seen this before
In the year leading up to the 2016 election, from days of action in over 50 cities, to videos seen by millions, and the largest Jewish get out the vote operation, our community rallied to demonstrate unprecedented resistance to Trump’s politics of hate and bigotry.
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Reforming the Criminal Justice System
Bend the Arc leaders in both California have organized for several years alongside our partners to reform the state’s broken criminal justice system.
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Winning a $15 minimum wage
The growth in income inequality in this country is not only an economic crisis; it’s a moral crisis as well. Federal minimum wage still isn’t nearly enough to pay for basic needs.
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So All Can Vote
In the year after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, we launched an effort to mobilize American Jews to protect voting rights.
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Justice for Domestic Workers
The landmark labor reforms of the New Deal in the 1930s left a few categories of workers out of basic labor protections. In 2013, we worked to fix that.
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Yearning to Breathe Free
In 2013, we mobilized a nationwide Jewish campaign in support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which passed the house and came close to passage in the Senate.
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Launch of Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
In 2012, we launched Bend the Arc: Jewish Action to bring a clear and unabashedly progressive Jewish voice into our nation’s political discourse — shifting the narrative that Jews are a single-issue constituency.