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What Did You Do And Say Before You Ran For President?
Photo credit: CNN Politics / screenshot Watching presidential candidates spar onstage in their last debate, I shared some of Senator Cory Booker’s frustration. Booker lost his cool when former Vice President Joe Biden tried to paint himself as a criminal justice...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Lois Gibbs Trump Needs To Keep His Promises To Superfund 41 years after the nation first heard our cries for help from Love Canal, we are moving backwards. Our government is not keeping its promise to clean up communities affected by toxic waste. This...
Trump Needs To Keep His Promise To Superfund
“The New York State Commissioner of Health issued an order of evacuation of pregnant women and children under the age of two living in the Love Canal Neighborhood.” That was on August 2, 1978, when the first emergency action was taken to evacuate families from Love...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Del. Stephanie Smith (D-MD) Your Voice Is Valuable If you have identified a problem in your community that you feel can be addressed through public policy, you do not have to wait to share it, to lift it up, or to make a campaign around it. You have...
Your Voice Is Valuable
We all want a new President - but at People’s Action, we know it will take a lot more than one candidate at the top to turn this country around. That’s why we’re recruiting and training more than 500 grassroots community leaders to run for elected office at every...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant How Teachers Helped Oust Puerto Rico’s Governor Government by the will of the people is very much alive in Puerto Rico, where a prolonged general strike that virtually shut down the island recently forced Governor Ricardo Rosselló to...
How Teachers Helped Oust Puerto Rico's Governor
As Americans lament the current sorry state of democracy in Washington, D.C., government by the will of the people was very much alive recently in Puerto Rico, where a prolonged general strike that virtually shut down the island forced Governor Ricardo Rosselló...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins Thoughts And Prayers Are Not Enough Our hearts are broken by this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. In a matter of seconds – separated by a few hours and 1,600 miles – twenty-nine lives were stolen, and many more injured, by...
Thoughts And Prayers Are Not Enough
Our hearts are broken by this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. In a matter of seconds – separated by a few hours and 1,600 miles - twenty-nine lives were stolen, and many more injured, by two angry, young white men with automatic weapons. As shocking as...
Trump's Lies To Labor
Donald Trump: billionaire of the people. When he ran for office, he said, “The American worker will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” And how’s that working out for the American worker? Not very well, actually, not very well. When it...
