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Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Patients have punched Marketa Anderson. They’ve kicked and head-butted her. They’ve slammed her into walls. One threw a shoe, hitting her. Then he threw a chair at her—and missed. Health care workers like Anderson, president...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Richard Eskow What Corporate Democrats Really Mean When They Say ‘Purity Test’ “Purity test”? “Pragmatic progressive”? “Free stuff”? What are these politicians talking about? If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Certain words and phrases are routinely...
What Corporate Democrats Really Mean When They Say ‘Purity Test’
“Purity test”? “Pragmatic progressive”? “Free stuff”? What are these politicians talking about? If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Certain words and phrases are routinely used by “centrist” political candidates. By design, these terms are imprecise, emotionally...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Joy Blackwood How Our Country Talks About The War On Drugs Is Backwards More than sixty members of People’s Action and the Center for Popular Democracy’s Opioid Network gathered with health care experts, providers and advocates for three days in...
How Our Country Talks About The War On Drugs Is Backwards
“How our country talks about the war on drugs is backwards,” said Kassandra Frederique, in her opening remarks to the first-ever convening of the People’s Action Overdose Crisis Cohort in Washington, D.C.“Criminalization of drug use and drug prohibition was no...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Suzette Brooks Masters To Win On Immigration, We Have To Lead With Love A massive wave of immigration has transformed our country over the last fifty years. We’re up to 14 percent foreign-born, which is near a historic high. And immigration now touches...
To Win On Immigration, We Have To Lead With Love
Members of the People's Action Deep Canvass team in rural Michigan The fear of change is a wedge being used to divide Americans, and weaken our pluralistic democracy. That’s the key conclusion Suzette Brooks Masters, a longtime advocate for immigrant justice, reaches...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sarah Anderson Congress Needs To End War Profiteering Now The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across...
Congress Needs To End War Profiteering Now
The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across the Middle East, while working families across the U.S. would bear the brunt...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Wake Up, Democrats. Bomb-‘Em-All Bolton Won’t Help Impeachment Democrats seem thrilled that John Bolton – a leading neoconservative, an advocate of bombing Iran and North Korea, and, briefly, Trump’s National Security advisor – has said...
