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In Search of a Green New Foreign Policy
As the 2020 presidential campaign gears up, progressives are forcing a serious and necessary reassessment of foreign policy. Just as they have clashed with the establishment over domestic issues, left-leaning candidates dispute both the “indispensable nation”...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Afua Atta-Mensah We Must Empower, Not Just Praise, Black Women In Politics This election cycle, I want everyone to stop praising Black women for our votes — ask us what we actually want and help us empower Black women in politics. It’s up to us to take...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE David Hatch Co-Governing Puts Us ‘In The Room Where It Happens’ What does it mean to move “from protest to power?” That’s the question People’s Action members like me asked at our national convention in Washington, D.C. two years ago. At that time,...
Co-Governing Puts Us ‘In The Room Where It Happens’
What does it mean to move “from protest to power?” That’s the question People’s Action members like me asked at our national convention in Washington, D.C. two years ago. At that time, just a few months into the Trump administration, 72 grassroots leaders out of the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl Who Is Blocking 'Medicare for All'? A majority of Americans are in favor of Medicare for All. And why not? Right now, nearly 30 million people in this country are uninsured; 40 million can’t afford health-care co-pays and deductibles and...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard The Koch Brothers’ New Look There’s a new Koch organization in town. Instead of trying to buy politicians to do the bidding of billionaires, as Charles and David Koch have historically done, their rebranded network now says they will support...
The Koch Brothers' New Look
There’s a new Koch organization in town. Instead of trying to buy politicians to do the bidding of billionaires, as Charles and David Koch have historically done, their rebranded network now says they will support community groups trying to cure the miseries of eons –...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jacob Swenson-Lengyel Organizing For Governing Power In Chicago Chicago’s 2019 municipal elections delivered significant victories for People's Action member groups like The People's Lobby and Reclaim Chicago. These wins come after years of organizing...
Organizing For Governing Power In Chicago
Chicago’s 2019 municipal elections delivered significant victories for progressives. These wins come after years of work by unions and People's Action member groups, and may provide a model for organizers in other cities looking to win progressive governing power....
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard How To Protect The Right To Organize Workers whose labor makes profits for executives should not live in abject poverty. This is what labor leaders have been saying for two centuries, and it's what Abigail Disney, granddaughter of the...
