Organizations Filed Purposes:
Rights & Democracy Projects mission is to bring people together to take action to build healthy communities and make the values of our communities guide the policies of our government. We are building a popular movement to advance rights and build a real democracy. We work in partnership with community groups, progressive unions, faith communities, organizations fighting for human and civil rights, and environmental and climate action groups.
Grassroots Organizing:-Rights & Democracy continued building member chapters with a dozen or local leaders throughout Vermont and New Hampshire. We held strategy sessions, political education and community mapping workshops. -In 2019, this included the following regions.New Hampshire:Belknap CountyCheshire CountyHillsboro CountySullivan CountyVermont:Addison CountyBennington CountyChittenden CountyRutland County-On October 31, 2019 in Claremont, NH more than two hundred people joined Rights & Democracy along with the New Hampshire Youth Movement, and Peoples Action organized a special forum to talk about the critical issues facing our communities. From Medicare for All and confronting the opioid and overdose crisis to what a just transition will look like for rural communities under a Green New Deal, our members shared powerful stories about the need to create a more just and equitable society.
Raise Up:- Raise Up Vermont: Starting in January, 2019 through the end of the Legislative Session in June of 2019 more than two hundreds RAD members advocated for passing bills to raise the minimum wage and establish paid family and medical leave. Through their emails, letters, and testimony they told their stories to Vermont legislators. - Raise Up New Hampshire: Given NHs minimum wage is the worst in the entire Northeast region of the country, our members continued to raise awareness of the negative impact on poverty wages on our economy and communities. We supported efforts in the Legislature to advance a minimum wage increase and paid family leave, but all efforts were blocked by the reactionary right wing Governor. With the national elections bringing Presidential candidates to the Granite State, RAD members submitted letters to the editor and op-eds raising the awareness of the need to raise the federal minimum wage. These efforts were also lifted up during Presidential forums where our members asked questions to candidates.
Movement Politics:- RAD continued to encourage members and supporters to serve in elected office and conducted workshops for people to learn the basics in running for office. - In the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Primary, our members conducted a survey of candidates and invited them to meet. On October 31,2019 Senator Bernie Sanders invited RAD members to meet in Claremont, NH and on November 2, 2019 Senator Elizabeth Warren had a phone call with members. On November 16, RAD members held their Annual Membership Assembly with special guest Senator Nina Turner and announced their endorsement of Senator Sanders.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Hilary Viens | Dir of Operatio | 40 | $61,388 |
| James Haslam | Executive Dir. | 20 | $37,834 |
| Andrew Tripp | Director | 0 | $0 |
| Scott Garren | Treasurer | 0 | $0 |
| Eric Rasmussen | Director | 0 | $0 |
| Teddy Waszazak | Director | 0 | $0 |
| Sebastian Fuentes | Director | 0 | $0 |
| Claudia Delucia | Director | 0 | $0 |
| Griffin Sinclair-Wingate | Secretary | 0 | $0 |
| Amy Hathaway | Co-Chair | 0 | $0 |
| Alison Nihart | Co-Chair | 0 | $0 |
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