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What It Takes To Win Medicare For All In Every Community
On Tuesday, November 5th, the Los Angeles City Council voted ten to one in favor of a resolution in support of H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019. Los Angeles is now the largest city in the United States to do so, joining Tampa, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago’s...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adrienne Evans We Can Create The World We Want To Live In I’ll never forget one conversation I had in a little bar in Hagerman, about two hours east of where I grew up. I would start by saying, you know, “I just want to talk to you about some of these...
We Can Create The World We Want To Live In
People's Action congratulates Adrienne Evans, executive director of United Vision for Idaho, on receiving a 2020 Roddenberry Fellowship. The program, whose alumni include Alicia Garza, Michael White and Judith LeBlanc, seeks to empower activists to “think, question,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE The Nation's Editorial Board Joe Biden: An Anti-Endorsement Vigorous public debate is the best way for the strongest progressive platform to reach and be embraced by a majority of voters. Progressives may not agree with centrist Democrats like Amy...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Inequality And The Iron Law Of Decaying Public Services Fires are raging everywhere in California these days, and firefighters are having enormous trouble keeping up. Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the...
Inequality And The Iron Law of Decaying Public Services
Public services almost always take it on the chin in societies where wealth starts furiously concentrating. Why should inequality have this impact? A little incendiary parable might help us understand.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Laurel Wales Turning States A Bolder Shade Of Blue Regina Romero – an environmental activist committed to co-governing with the People’s Action affiliate group LUCHA (Living United For Change In Arizona) – made history Tuesday night by becoming...
Turning States A Bolder Shade Of Blue
Regina Romero - an environmental activist committed to co-governing with the People’s Action affiliate group LUCHA (Living United For Change In Arizona) - made history Tuesday night by becoming Tuscon’s first woman and Latina mayor in a landslide victory. “I’m still...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway A Star-Spangled Knockoff America’s manufacturing sector has been decimated, and NAFTA and China’s unfair trade practices are major culprits. NAFTA encouraged greedy American corporations to move U.S. manufacturing and jobs to Mexico: many...
A Star-Spangled Knockoff
Photo credit: futureatlas.com / flickr / cc An American flag made in China is not an American flag. It’s a knockoff. New York Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara wants a guarantee that flags flown at New York events and on New York poles are made in America. He has...
