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Co-Governing In Policy: Where The Rubber Meets The Road
People’s Action and its member groups have boldly moved into electoral politics, successfully electing our own members and candidates who share our values to office. We’ve done this by building training pipelines and strategies that have proven effective to elect...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Carrie McBane Big Pharma Holds My Life In Its Hands My name is Carrie McBane, and I live in Sylva, North Carolina. I have Type 2 diabetes, so my life depends on daily access to drugs I can’t afford out of pocket, and I don’t have healthcare coverage....
Big Pharma Holds My Life In Its Hands
My name is Carrie McBane, and I live in Sylva, North Carolina. I have Type 2 diabetes, so my life depends on daily access to drugs I can’t afford out of pocket, and I don’t have healthcare coverage. Every day when I wake up, I am reminded that my life, and all aspects...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adrienne Evans Reparations Are A Step In The Right Direction Today is Juneteenth, the day we celebrate – and as a nation, we must celebrate – the emancipation of African-Americans enslaved by the white colonists of North America and their descendants....
Reparations Are A Step In The Right Direction
Today is Juneteenth, the day we celebrate - and as a nation, we must celebrate - the emancipation of African-Americans enslaved by the white colonists of North America and their descendants. I am one of those white people who know we must do better. It’s also the day...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati How The Super-Rich Avoid Paying Their Share Extravagantly wealthy people cheat on their taxes. Regularly. Extravagantly, too. Our super rich are stashing vast chunks of their personal fortunes in offshore tax havens, generating billions...
How The Super-Rich Avoid Paying Their Share
We have a great deal of statistical data, in America today, about the economic circumstances of Americans who live in poverty. We know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth. And much of what we do know, suggests a revealing new study, turns out to be wrong. America’s wealthiest, this new study details, almost certainly hold substantially greater personal fortunes than our standard analyses of the nation’s distribution of wealth indicate.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeremy Saunders There’s No Turning Back New York’s Wave Of Justice A blue wave surged across New York State last November, as voters elected true progressives to represent them in Albany. Almost as soon as this new generation of young progressives took...
There’s No Turning Back New York’s Wave Of Justice
A blue wave surged across New York State last November, as voters went to the ballot box to demand true progressives represent them in Albany. This unprecedented voter turnout helped create an undeniable Democratic majority in our state legislature for the first time...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Mehrdad Azemun Continuing our series of wins for grassroots people power, People’s Action celebrated another milestone for movement politics in Denver last week. Colorado People’s Action’s (CPA) endorsed candidate Candi CdeBaca ran an insurgent...
