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Citizens’ Poplar Point Working Group
The Citizens Poplar Point Working Group is a broad-based, collaborative effort of residents interested in the future of the Poplar Point area of the District of Columbia. Three respected DC-based nonprofit organizations joined forces to create the citizens’ working group: The Anacostia Coordinating Council, the Anacostia Park and Community Collaborative, and the DC Environmental Network.
DC Mayoral Candidate Environmental Forum
The forum will focus on environmental issues and will be an opportunity for all candidates to share their vision for the future.
Clean Water Accomplishments in the District of Columbia
2020 was a challenging and inspiring year for our work in the District of Columbia. Our accomplishments would not have been possible without the on-the-ground leadership of our Anacostia-based members in the District Wards 7 and 8.
Environmental Justice in Anacostia Park
Anacostia Park is a 1200 acre park system adjacent to the Anacostia River, managed by the National Park Service. It is a greenspace that has and still does play an important role in the culture and community health of several predominantly Black neighborhoods in Southeast and Northeast D.C. Advocacy to support investments in the stewardship and infrastructural maintenance of Anacostia park has been a long-standing challenge.
DC Statehood
DC residents lack basic citizenship rights. Statehood is the only path to equal rights and full citizenship for residents of the District – it is the "unfinished chapter of the civil rights movement." More than 700,000 DC residents deserve to have a voting representative and two senators in Congress along with all the other citizenship rights every other American enjoys. That is why we support statehood for the District of Columbia and are calling on Congress to make DC the 51st state. DC residents pay the highest federal taxes in the country, yet have no voting representation in either the
