Calling all climate advocates and activists! If you’re fighting for clean energy, energy efficiency, and climate legislation in your community, you’re probably facing resistance from a monopoly utility company. 1/2

Financiación de $150,000 para compostadores dirigidos por comunidades históricamente desatendidas o que prestan servicios en esas comunidades!

Aprende más ➡️ bit.ly/C4Csubvenciones

The social, environmental, and economic benefits of local composting can transform neighborhoods. That’s why we’re awarding $10,000 grants to up to 15 composting projects serving historically excluded communities in New England and NYC!

Apply by July 25 ➡️ bit.ly/C4Cminigrants

Share this infographic to inspire #ICAW action, and dig deeper with our 7-day self-guided composting curriculum: ilsr.org/articles/icaw-2025/ 2/2

Happy International Compost Awareness Week! 🌱 We’re kicking things off with a reminder that composting is more than a trend — it’s a powerful tool for building climate resilience, healthy soils, and community power. 1/2

@ronmknox.bsky.social’s new zine, out now from @microcosm.bsky.social, examines the growing movement to reject monopoly control and serves as a practical guide to help you — and your friends, neighbors, and coworkers — join the fight for a more democratic future. 1/2

Is managing contamination a challenge for your local composting site? You’re not alone! Join us next Tuesday for a webinar featuring practical strategies and advice from expert food scrap composters.

“By filing suit against PepsiCo, the FTC is sending a clear message: it is illegal for a large supplier to collaborate with a big retail chain to drive smaller retailers out of business and dominate the market.”

Read @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social’s full statement: ilsr.org/articles/sta...

Join ILSR and @stateinnovation.bsky.social next week for a lively discussion about how states can advance the antitrust movement. The program includes a fireside chat between Attorneys General @agellison.bsky.social and @krismayes.bsky.social, moderated by ILSR’s @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social. 1/2

Despite the uncertainty surrounding a new federal administration, states are continuing to lead the fight against monopoly power. Join ILSR and the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) on January 15 to hear policymakers and advocates share strategies for building more equitable economies nationwide.

“Blocking this merger is a crucial step in restoring healthy competition to food retailing,” says ILSR’s Ron Knox.

Read our full statement: ilsr.org/articles/ilsr-applauds-judges-decision-to-block-kroger-albertsons-merger/

Learn more about how monopoly broadband providers harm local communities — and how one small Southern town fought back — in the latest episode of the Building Local Power podcast: ilsr.org/sparking-a-community-broadband-revolution/ 4/4

The $65 billion “Internet for All” initiative is failing low-income communities of color by avoiding the problem of monopoly concentration, writes ILSR’s Sean Gonsalves.

Read his article in @theprospect.bsky.social: prospect.org/economy/2023-12-05-monopolies-maps-killing-internet-for-all/ 3/4

In the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, with a poverty rate of just 8%, a 2022 report found that Charter Spectrum offered its “Internet Ultra” plan for $30/month. In the adjacent Watts neighborhood, which has a 31% poverty rate, the same plan cost residents $70/month. 2/4

For decades, real estate companies engaged in discriminatory practices that deprived generations of Black Americans of the wealth-building advantages of homeownership. Many digital equity advocates say a similar practice is now a defining feature of broadband service. 1/4