Platform and Model Resolutions

News! Multiple cities plus the County of King have passed resolutions! See the latest under News & Updates here: https://fortifywa.org/2026/09/17/resolution-activity-fall-2026/

This model resolution meets the moment by directly opposing the latest California mega-millionaire Brian Heywood-funded initiatives, this time a truly bigoted attack on trans folks in Washington state with some terrible, harmful policy proposals, like how “IL26-638 could force invasive genital exams on girls of any age to play sports at any level.” This creepy proposal could result in genital exams that would affect ALL girls who wish to play sports (trans or no, and all boys are exempt, including trans boys). See the misogynistic, cringey details in the model resolution itself.

This model resolution amplifies the work of No Hate WA State. To sign up for news and updates directly from No Hate WA State, go here: https://nohateinwastate.org/join-the-mailing-list

Articles:
Marie Claire, July 13, 2026: Anti-Trans Legislation Isn’t About “Protecting Girls”—It’s About Distracting Us From What Matters (Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe on how Heywood’s initiatives are an attack on women as a whole.)
KUOW, June 4, 2026: Transgender ballot initiative could require genital exams for WA secondary school students

Start by signing and sharing this Nextcloud Online Petition Form: https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/Pa2KmkEknQf4jHJSDFRZiZca

Printable Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file): Fortify! WA against anti-trans legislation and wealthy extremists

Take Action Sign (PDF) with QR code for tabling: https://share.mayfirst.org/s/S5JJnwg3D3iLqsc

Letter-Sized Solidarity Sign (PDF) with QR code to hand out at city council meetings or other actions: https://share.mayfirst.org/s/R5DgzsnFDrtE8Az

This model resolution amplifies the work of Invest in WA Now.

Online Petition (sign and share!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/KbE4SbjQoeQjJNCXsAGiQnYr
Hard-copy PDF materials folder: https://share.mayfirst.org/s/eQZMoPS8yA8dfc2

This model resolution meets the moment of fighting creeping authoritarianism through mass surveillance via cameras like those of Flock. With the rise in authoritarian immigration enforcement, more people are becoming highly concerned with the connection between Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs), traffic cameras, CCTV cameras, household doorbell cameras, and other high-tech cameras and recording equipment that can be repurposed and abused for, initially, immigration “enforcement”, but which opens the door to further attack on all of our civil liberties through mass surveillance. It has been shown that some data has been already accessed by Federal entities, sometimes illegally. This has led numerous cities to prohibit, shut down, disable, or fully dismantle any cameras (such as Flock) that could be result in (or are already resulting in) the abuse of civil liberties.

While this model resolution was assembled from information from websites and news sources, some dedicated specifically to mass surveillance, there was no one organization that focused on this issue that could be amplified with this resolution. If you know of an organization focusing on mass surveillance whose work this model resolution could amplify, please email info(at)fortifywa.org.

Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): Fortify! Washington against Mass Surveillance
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/JEHkambGGgj2LZbt233pmanX
Letter-Sized Solidarity Sign (PDF) with QR to hand out at meeting actions: https://share.mayfirst.org/s/bjLiLY2Kykm33Cz

Success in Shoreline, WA! See Shoreline under Cities for more info.

This model resolution meets this moment of attack upon immigrants by asking city councils to take concrete action to protect their residents from ICE, citing actions in other cities as well as amplifying the work of the Washington Immigration Solidarity Network (WAISN), whose 2026-2027 legislative agenda includes legislation to ban the wearing of face-coverings by law enforcement in Washington State.

While this model resolution needed to be passed well before the March 12, 2026 end of legislative session deadline, the core tenets are still relevant. Two of the bills passed in ’26: Banning Law Enforcement from Wearing Masks (SB 5855 / HB 2173) and Immigrant Workers Protection Act (HB 2105). One bill never made it out of committee, so could be reintroduced in 2027: Protect Student Financial Aid Privacy (HB 2132)

Download the resolution and petition PDF and bookmark the URL for the online form, go to How to Organize and Getting Started, and get organizing!

Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/Gt8xKnXeeNtXLj7

Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign and share!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/8bQZ2RJxHRp9TNPREqdjmmEy

This model resolution meets this moment of attack by the Federal government upon affordable healthcare through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by asking city councils to support their residents’ health and economic welfare by advocating for something upon which the U.S. has long lacked and lagged behind worldwide: universal healthcare.

This model resolution asks city councils to both support state and national universal healthcare, and the Whole Washington 2026 legislative agenda, noting that it is more realistic in this moment for the State of Washington to protect its residents with its own state level healthcare, called the Washington Health Trust.

While this specific model resolution needed to be passed well before the March 12, 2026 end of legislative session deadline, the core tenets are still relevant, and it can be used to promote these issues at a city level until an updated model resolution is drafted.

Download the resolution and petition PDF and bookmark the URL for the online form, go to How to Organize and Getting Started, and get organizing!

Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/QpTTBjdiQ3YiEdt

Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign and share!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/Ak9eaxJpf4sMcDce68gics4H

This model resolution meets the moment by working to bolster solid democracy at the most local levels under a presidential administration that is doing everything it can to dismantle democracy and replace it with authoritarianism.

While this specific model resolution needed to be passed well before the March 12, 2026 end of legislative session deadline, the core tenets are still relevant, and it can be used to promote these issues at a city level until an updated model resolution is drafted.

Download the resolution and petition PDF and bookmark the URL for the online form, go to How to Organize and Getting Started, and get organizing!

FairVote Washington’s 2026 Legislative Priorities
Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/8HLCWJnGdQ5J4HJ
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign and share!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/HdPRJSmMxLYrs6BLEARqYJH3

This model resolution meets this moment of attack by the current administration upon everything that is American: our laws, our institutions, our Constitution. This is an ongoing and serious authoritarian crisis for our country that seeks to destroy our very democracy; destroy our institutions (that it has not already destroyed); and violently oppress our people, starting with brown and black folk, women, and the queer community, but already moving towards everyone.

This Fortify! Washington model resolution asks cities to develop a Fascism, Authoritarianism, and Un-Lawful (FAUL) Federal Actions Preparedness and Response Plan BEFORE we end up like Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland – occupied and invaded by military and/or federal agents.

WARNING: This is a a very pointy resolution, and will doubtless scare both elected officials and their city staff. Working to pass this resolution is both exactly what we need right now and a very, very heavy lift. And most cities will be terrified that they will attract the ire and oppression and funding cuts of the current authoritarian administration, despite the fact that “keeping one’s head down” has never kept anyone safe from authoritarianism.

NOTE: Some important aspects of what we would want to end up in such a plan are addressed in WAISN’s legislative agenda. This model resolution seeks a more comprehensive plan and analysis, but the WAISN Legislative Agenda is far more winnable in this moment.

If you want to take this one one, download the resolution and petition PDF and bookmark the URL for the online form, go to How to Organize and Getting Started, and get organizing!

Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/q2Fy5NnteBzckeA

Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign and share!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/3wNQXsdjp2ajPnpyfJoSzL3a

Example Resolution (Shoreline, WA): Res467 – A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SHORELINE, WASHING TON, DECLARING THE CITY’S COMMITMENT TO BUILDING AN ANTI-RACIST COMMUNITY

Corporate personhood and money as speech are foundational issues with American democracy that have largely put us in the position we find ourselves in now. Move to Amend seeks to amend the Constitution to define people only as natural persons and money not as speech. It is a root-level way to fight back against the Citizens United ruling that opened the floodgates to the purchase and corruption of our democracy.

Ongoing Resolution: Supporting Move to Amend’s We the People Constitutional Amendment to Abolish Corporate Personhood and the doctrine of Money as Speech
Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/5q8r9e6feG75Nxw
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/msSCp9knNHgcWoeq9XCk84NC

Move to Amend’s Original Model Resolution: https://www.movetoamend.org/model-resolution-councils-organizations

Note: Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is Lead Sponsor on the Move to Amend federal legislation.

Washington State cities that passed resolutions of or related to Move to Amend’s campaign, from Move to Amend’s resolution tracker records (which includes 725 communities and 8 states as of 1/1/25):
May 2, 2016, the Burien City Council
March 5, 2013, the Oak Harbor City Council
February 19, 2013, the Kirkland City Council
December 19, 2012, the Walla Walla City Council
December 18, 2012, the Tacoma City Council
October 2, 2012, the Olympia City Council
September 25, 2012, the Coupeville Town Council
September 11, 2012, the La Conner Town Council
July 23, 2012, the Board of Island County Commissioners
June 4, 2012, the Bellingham City Council
June 4, 2012, the Langley City Council
May 14, 2012, the Seattle City Council
April 23, 2012, the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners
March 5, 2012, the Port Townsend City Council

=>Fair Taxation Under Construction

Ongoing Resolution: Fascism/Authoritarianism Preparedness Plan
Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/q2Fy5NnteBzckeA
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/3wNQXsdjp2ajPnpyfJoSzL3a

Ongoing Resolution: None at this time

Example Resolution Success (Shoreline, WA): Res560

Most Recent Version
[While this specific model resolution needed to be passed well before the March 12, 2026 end of legislative session deadline, the core tenets are still relevant, and it can be used to promote these issues at a city level until an updated model resolution is drafted.]
WAISN’s ’26-27 Legislative Agenda and Concrete Local Action
Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/Gt8xKnXeeNtXLj7
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/8bQZ2RJxHRp9TNPREqdjmmEy
Letter-Sized Solidarity Sign (PDF) with QR to hand out at meeting actions:https://share.mayfirst.org/s/psLPXtcpTYwpGAk

[This example comes from Northern California. If you know of Washington examples, please let us know at info (at) fortifywa (dot) org.]
Example resolution, 2024, Fort Bragg, California (not the base in North Carolina):
SUPPORTING A SUSTAINED CEASEFIRE

Includes:
Fortify! WA against Anti-Trans Initiatives and Wealthy Extremists (with No Hate in WA State)
Fortify! WA with Sanctuary Cities (Pride Across the Bridge Effort)

Summer 2026: Fortify! WA against Anti-Trans Initiatives and Wealthy Extremists

This model resolution amplifies the work of No Hate WA State. To sign up for news and updates directly from No Hate WA State, go here: https://nohateinwastate.org/join-the-mailing-list

Articles:
Marie Claire, July 13, 2026: Anti-Trans Legislation Isn’t About “Protecting Girls”—It’s About Distracting Us From What Matters (Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe on how Heywood’s initiatives are an attack on women as a whole.)
KUOW, June 4, 2026: Transgender ballot initiative could require genital exams for WA secondary school students

Start by signing and sharing this Nextcloud Online Petition Form: https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/Pa2KmkEknQf4jHJSDFRZiZca

Printable Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file): Fortify! WA against anti-trans legislation and wealthy extremists

Take Action Sign (PDF) with QR code for tabling: https://share.mayfirst.org/s/S5JJnwg3D3iLqsc

Letter-Sized Solidarity Sign (PDF) with QR code to hand out at city council meetings or other actions: https://share.mayfirst.org/s/R5DgzsnFDrtE8Az

Sanctuary Cities (Pride Across the Bridge)

Example Resolution (Bothell, WA):
Passed in Bothell, WA, by folks supporting an effort by Pride Across the Bridge & Eastside for All:
Resolution 1611 Affirming Bothell as a Welcoming Community for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Diverse People.

Ongoing Resolution: Fortify! WA for our 2SLGBTQIA+ Community with Pride Across the Bridge’s Resolution for Sanctuary Cities
Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing):https://share.mayfirst.org/s/qgZ3KfCHij3rnjW
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/KS7ew9kWjTnyDYp3qFW5q7nB

While this model resolution was assembled from information from websites and news sources, some dedicated specifically to mass surveillance, there was no one organization that focused on this issue that could be amplified with this resolution. If you know of an organization focusing on mass surveillance whose work this model resolution could amplify, please email info(at)fortifywa.org.

Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): Fortify! Washington against Mass Surveillance
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/JEHkambGGgj2LZbt233pmanX
Letter-Sized Solidarity Sign (PDF) with QR to hand out at meeting actions: https://share.mayfirst.org/s/bjLiLY2Kykm33Cz

Ongoing Resolution: None at this time

Example Resolution (Philadelphia, PA): Sept 23, 2021

Most Recent Version
[While this specific model resolution needed to be passed well before the March 12, 2026 end of legislative session deadline, the core tenets are still relevant, and it can be used to promote these issues at a city level until an updated model resolution is drafted.]
FairVote Washington’s 2026 Legislative Priorities
Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/8HLCWJnGdQ5J4HJ
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/HdPRJSmMxLYrs6BLEARqYJH3

Example Resolution (Edmonds, WA):
RES NO. 1498 – A RESOLUTION OF THE EDMONDS CITY COUNCIL IN SUPPORT OF ACCESS TO A FULL RANGE OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS,
INCLUDING ABORTION SERVICES, AND URGING FEDERAL AND
STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO CODIFY THESE RIGHTS

Partner Organization: Whole Washington

Ongoing Resolution: None yet

Most Recent Version
[While this specific model resolution needed to be passed well before the March 12, 2026 end of legislative session deadline, the core tenets are still relevant, and it can be used to promote these issues at a city level until an updated model resolution is drafted.]
Resolution and Petition pages (PDF file for printing): https://share.mayfirst.org/s/QpTTBjdiQ3YiEdt
Nextcloud Online Petition Form (which you can sign!): https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/Ak9eaxJpf4sMcDce68gics4H

You can see where resolutions have already been passed at https://www.medicare4allresolutions.org/is-a-local-resolution-already-underway-in-your-community/