2020 went off with a bang! The winter New Leadership Networking Initiative (NLNI) brought dozens of emerging reproductive justice leaders around the country to Puerto Rico for a generative conversation, building individual skills, and fostering cross-organizational connections. As coronavirus entered the U.S. many of our programs like our annual conference and Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC) had to be shifted to accomodate necessary safety measures for all attendants and interns. Read more about our previous programming and next steps here.

CLPP stands in solidarity with communities resisting the systematic killing of Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color at the hands of police. We condemn the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and too many others whose lives have been cut short by white supremacist violence. The present uprisings are part of a long and powerful tradition of Black-led resistance to white supremacy and the wholesale criminalization of Black people. Both the reproductive justice and the Black Lives Matter movements originate in struggles for liberation led by Black women. These women have made tremendous sacrifices to improve the conditions under which marginalized communities are forced to live.