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Throwing Down To Fight Gentrification In Denver
In a continued 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 campaign for a City Council seat in...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jerad Halcott I’m Living Proof The CARE Act Will Save Lives To save lives from our opioid epidemic, we have to meet drug users where they are. I know: I’m living proof. My name is Jerad Walcott, and I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. At ten, I...
I’m Living Proof The CARE Act Will Save Lives
To save lives from our opioid epidemic, we have to meet drug users where they are. I know: I’m living proof. My name is Jerad Halcott, and I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. At ten, I was huffing prescription drugs, then I moved on to stronger stuff. At fifteen,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Reggie Griffin Why I Chose To Die In Front Of The AMA I never expected to “die” in front of a roomful of doctors. Much less in front of the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, in my hometown of Chicago. But that’s where I found myself,...
Why I Chose To Die In Front Of The AMA
I never expected to "die" in front of a roomful of doctors. Much less in front of the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, in my hometown of Chicago. But that’s where I found myself, along with thirty fellow members of the Jane Addams Senior Caucus,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Pennsylvania Charter Schools Are A Dumpster Fire Few if any presidential candidates seem willing to acknowledge providing families with an option to choose charter schools comes with crushing costs to everyone else in the community. In...
Pennsylvania Charter Schools Are A Dumpster Fire
Charter schools have finally broken into the national political dialogue, with presidential candidates in the Democratic Party proclaiming their stances on these schools. But a national debate about charters and “school choice” will be an exercise in empty rhetoric...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati A Nation Where Only The Rich Have Homes? San Francisco, recent research shows, now has more billionaires per capita than any other city in the world. By one reckoning, San Francisco also has the highest cost of living in the world, as all...
A Nation Where Only The Rich Have Homes?
In Northern California’s Bay Area, two-thirds of the homeless haven’t been able to find temporary sheltering services. They live and sleep outdoors, many in lines of RVs parked along public right-of-ways like the waterfront in Berkeley. And that has infuriated nearby residents who’ve paid big bucks for their residences.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Bill Bianchi The AMA Stops Us From Getting Health Care The American Medical Association needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Because we smell something bad, and it’s you: The way you keep Americans from getting health care is rotten to the core. AMA,...
