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A Better Nevada – For All

Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada is making change happen by elevating progressive voices and issues in our state.

Policy Brief: Repeal of the Affordable Care Act – What does it mean for Nevada?

Policy brief by Nevadans Together for Medicaid. NTM is a coalition of healthcare advocates working to protect and support Medicaid and CHIP for all children and families in Nevada.

The Planista, issue 12!

Welcome to the New Summer Edition of The Planista!   Here’s what PLAN’s been up to the last few months! The Great Basin Water Tour! In mid-June, advocates, volunteers, experts, allies and everyone in-between – youth and adults – embarked on a 4-day tour in the Great Basin with two starting points, Reno and Las Vegas, […]

The PLANista – February 2017

Welcome to our first Winter edition of The Planista! We’ve had a packed season so far. Look at all the stuff we’ve been working on in Nevada this new year! Reno’s Woman’s March on Washington Reno’s Women’s March on Washington took place downtown on January 21st. Police estimated 10,000 participants during the march. We were […]

The Self Sufficiency Standard for NV

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Supreme Jackpot

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Fool’s Gold

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Facing Race 2009

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Bridging the Gap

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NV Mining Fact Sheet

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Fool’s Gold 2013

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Facing Race – 2013 Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity

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Fracking Brochure

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2015: Vital Beyond Belief

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Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contributions

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Impacts of Mine Dewatering

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Working with Communities to Protect Land, Water and Air

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The PLANista – July 2016

See what’s new at PLAN!     Arts and Organizing!   On June 11th, 2016, Las Vegas artist Denise Duarte and the Left of Center Art Gallery welcomed PLAN and its volunteers to their space to host PLAN’s Arts and Organizing Workshop for Environmental Justice. The community came together to create posters and banners that […]

New report: Effect of open-pit gold mines on groundwater lingers long after production, profits and jobs are gone

Growing concerns over the medium and long term impacts of open-pit gold mining on Nevada’s water were validated earlier this month when Dr. Tom Myers presented his third report on the effects of mine dewatering and pit lake formation on Humboldt River flows. PLAN traveled to Elko and Lovelock to share the findings of the […]

The PLANista – June 2016

PLAN’s been busy in the community the last few weeks. Check out what’s new!   On the road for our public lands! In May PLAN and Great Basin Resource Watch traveled to central Nevada to visit lands slated for auction at the upcoming Bureau of Land Management Sale on June 14th. The 42 parcels on the auction block […]

The PLANista – March 2016

Meet our newest PLAN organizer! Ellen Moore is originally from Wisconsin but has been working with the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) for the past few years. Ellen is PLAN’S Mining Accountability Organizer! Ellen’s help has come just in time too! On March 8th PLAN attended the Keep It In The […]

The PLANista – May 2016

Happy Spring! See what PLAN has been up to in the past few weeks Fight for $15! On April 14th, the day before Tax Day, PLAN once again came out in full force to support low wage fast-food, child care, and home care workers as they marched for a $15 minimum wage and the right […]

The PLANista – April 2016

See what’s been happening at PLAN We Need Nine Stacey Shinn from PLAN, Annette Magnus from BattleBorn Progress and Assemblyman Elliot Anderson represented Nevada in Washington DC on April 5th for a day of action on #WeNeedNine. Representatives from nine states traveled to the capital to ask Senate Republicans to hold a hearing on Judge […]

The PLANista – January 2016

We wanted to make sure you were up to date with everything PLAN is doing in Nevada, so we will be producing a newsletter called The PLANista!   With so much going on between Reno, Las Vegas, Carson City, Elko and even Washington DC, we created this newsletter so you can keep up with what […]

October 2014

Check out PLAN in the News during the month of October   10/16 – Las Vegas marriage for everyone! blog.vegas.com   10/15 – Las Vegas Review Journal endorses a yes vote on Question 3   10/12 – State needs to extract more taxes from mining – Las Vegas Review Journal   10/09 – PLAN: “The Sooner the Better” for Same-Sex […]

July 2013

Check out PLAN in the news for the month of July.

June 2013

Check out PLAN in the news during the month of June Nevada and the entire country celebrate the US Supreme Court’s rulings on marriage equality 06/26/2013 — The US Supreme Court ruled the so-called Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional and stuck California’s Proposition 8 down. These rulings put the wind on our backs as […]