DUKE
RESPECT
DURHAM

We call on Duke University and Duke University Health System to make voluntary payments in lieu of taxes to the City of Durham and Durham County starting in 2024.​

 

Durham has long struggled with poverty and underinvestment, followed by rapid gentrification and displacement. Durham’s skyrocketing cost of living places many hardships and heavy burdens on poor communities, seniors, and residents on fixed incomes. Meanwhile, our public services have endured years of austerity; disinvestment in public services has exacerbated educational, health, and economic inequalities, with especially harmful effects on communities of color. This unsustainable path will continue so long as Duke maintains an antidemocratic relationship with the city and county it calls home.

 

​In the year of its centennial, it is time for a democratic partnership that Durham residents want, need, and deserve. It is time for Duke to contribute its fair share. It is time for Duke to respect Durham.​

 

Sponsor Organizations:

• CAUSE

• Communications Workers of America, NC

• Durham Association of Educators (DAE)

• Durham Congregations in Action

• Durham Revolutionary Study Group

• Durham Workers Assembly

• El Futuro Es Nuestro/ It's Our Future

• Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Durham

• Jubilee Baptist Church

• March For Our Lives - UNC Chapel Hill

• National Domestic Workers Alliance - NC / We Dream in Black

• NC Triangle DSA

• Party for Socialism and Liberation

• Southern Vision Alliance

• Sunrise Movement Durham Hub

• Sunrise UNC

• UE150

• Unite for a Fair Economy

• USSW (Union of Southern Workers Assembly)

• YDSADSA