We are action-oriented! Look at all we have done!

Step Up Louisiana is one of the most active groups you will run in to. Check out this incomplete list of our actions and accomplishments!

FALL AND WINTER 2019

November - Held BR Runoff Candidate forum
November - Unleash Local Baton Rouge candidate happy hour
October - Launched the Dollar Store campaign on Halloween with Bang for Your Buck Halloween Turn Up
October - Organized job fair providing local workers with Free Health Screenings + Medical Debt Help + Free food + Voter registration
October - Hosted Vigil to Honor The Fallen Hard Rock Workers after Hard Rock Collapse
October - Hosted seventh Faith Labor Alliance Breakfast
October - Hosted Uptown and Downtown New Orleans Candidate Forums with the Power Coalition and hosted major Step Up Membership Meeting Candidate forum with 22 candidates
September - Packed NOLA City Hall to support the banning of salary history question on job applications
September - Hosted Unleash Local Candidate Happy Hour Meet and Greet with state election candidates
September - Held Candidate Forum for East Baton Rouge Criminal and Juvenile Court Judges
September - Canvassed for endorsed candidates in upcoming state election

August - Held Power Forum: Baton Rouge to discuss economic and political empowerment in local communities
August - Held statewide Unleash Local meeting and training session
August - Held sixth Faith Labor Alliance Breakfast
August - Participated in social justice oriented Organization Fair
July - Held New Orleans Economic Justice Committee Campaign meeting
June - Continued organizing for economic justice in Unleash Local Baton Rouge campaign
May - Held Unleash Baton Rouge festival to support economic justice and local control of minimum wage
May - Held Unleash Local meeting to speak directly to state lawmakers about why our communities need House Bill 422 passed, which would lift the ban on local minimum wage and paid leave policies
May - Hosted Parent Information meeting on Act 91 Lawsuit on the illegal implementation of the charter experiment specifically in Orleans Parish
May - Packed BR city hall to support House Bill 422
May - Co-hosted Erase the Board March and Rally to Take Our Schools Back

May - Celebrated successful economic justice efforts with a committee bowling outing

April - Unleash Jefferson Parish launch, training community members in economic justice organizing and discussing house bill HB422

April - Unleash Local holds second line to mark the launch of Unleash New Orleans campaign

March - Trained members in canvassing and phone banking for Unleash Local Statewide Campaign

March - Unleash Local Statewide Campaign launch in Baton Rouge to promote local leadership’s role in economic prosperity

February - 2 year anniversary of Step Up - Celebratory Gala
January - Co-hosted Workers’ Forum with Congress of Day Laborers/Congreso de Jornaleros, Southeast Louisiana Building & Construction Trades Council, Workplace Justice Project, Step Up Louisiana, and New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
November - Run-off candidate forum
October - New Orleans City Council votes to Ban the Box
October - Phone bank in support of Unanimous Juries campaign
October - Fifth Faith Labor Alliance Breakfast
September - Testified for Ban the Box and Living Wage Ordinance Enforcement!

August- Launched membership drive
July- Launched Truth Commission Organizing
July- Showed up in force at the first OPSB meeting after the reunification of schools under "local control".
June- 4th Faith Labor Alliance Breakfast
June- Hired two organizing fellows who join our co-directors at CPD camp for organizing and emerging leader training
May-June- Participated in the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and fought for a #MoralBudget in Baton Rouge
May- Sustainable Community Schools resolution passed in the State Senate as an option for reform
May- Inauguration rally and march for economic justice
April- A historic first $15 minimum wage bill was filed at the State Capitol
April- Actively participated in the legislative session as part of many progressive coalition efforts that intersect with education and economic justice organizing
April- MLK50 Commemoration March and Bus Trip to Memphis
March- We elected our Local Advisory Committee, a group of member leaders who guide our organization through our next phase of growth
February- Candidate forum
February- Rallied at Walmart on Tchopitoulus to deliver the Betsy Gets an F Report Card about Secretary of Education Betsy Devos
January- Fought for and won yellow school bus transportation for elementary school students at Einstein Charter
January- Equal Pay Bloc during Women's March

August- Spoke out at public forums to hold elected officials accountable for the state of New Orleans public school system
August- Organized four public forums leading into the citywide election
September- Led town hall on public education
September- Launched citywide online school transportation survey
September- Ran two donation drives for Hurricane Harvey
September- Organized Get Out The Vote efforts with 15 canvasses, 3 phone banks, hundreds of volunteer member hours, 3,000+ pieces of literature distributed
October- Co-sponsored Public Safety candidates' town hall for Mayor and City Council runoff
October- Screened education justice film "Backpack Full of Cash"
October- Participated in Dignity in Schools Campaign National Week of Action as part of the #WeChoose campaign
October- Opened our new office
November- Formed advisory committee to develop our upcoming 501(c)(3) organization
November- Co-sponsored the "State of Working New Orleans" report release mayoral candidate forum
November- Held Economic Justice teach-in and GOTV effort
November- Organized actions against the #GOPTaxScam
November- Joined Poor People's Campaign
December- Continued organizing against #GOPTaxScam
December- Hosted first annual gala honoring
December- Our Parent Union signed on in support of Loyola Law Clinic amicus brief supporting Orleans Parish School Board in suing Einstein Charter for not providing adequate school transportation for students

February- Step Up is founded
February- Led action at Uber's New Orleans headquarters that got Uber CEO to step down from Trump's economic advisory council
March- Launched volunteer-led canvasses in the 7th Ward and Hollygrove
March- Led #MilkCartonKennedy action to pressure Senator Kennedy to be accountable to his constituency on health care and other national debates
April- Formed the New Orleans Faith Labor Alliance
April- Launched the New Orleans #WeChoose education equity campaign
May- Coordinated coalition of groups opposed to the Trump agenda to address New Orleans' crumbling infrastructure and need for good jobs
May- Called for direct investment in public infrastructure, not privatization, during the #MillionsOfJobs national day of action
May - Organized our first major fundraiser and concert, Bounce for $15 , with allies in the Fight for 15 and OUR Walmart
June- Parent leaders created a film and led a Transportation Racism/Abuse forum about inequities in the charter enrollment system and transportation
July- Founded New Orleans Parent Union
July- Announced our 3-Point Economic Justice Platform