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Both Parties Face Leadership Struggles Both parties face leadership struggles as House returns. NYT: "The House returns from its July Fourth recess this week in a state of remarkable uncertainty, with both Democrats and Republicans facing open questions about their...
The Future of "American" Is Up To Us
We should be skeptical of the motivation and messengers behind calls for civility. We hear people say that what is happening to migrants in the United States right now is un-American. I wish that were true. Sadly, American history is full of periods where children of...
Progressive Breakfast
#FamiliesBelongTogether Protests in 50 States In 50 states, hundreds of thousands protest immigration policy, with focus on midterms. USA Today: "Hundreds of thousands of people turned out from coast-to-coast Saturday in "Families Belong Together" rallies to protest...
I Stand With Migrants, So Should You
Jeremiah Jaynes, a leader with Down Home North Carolina, a People’s Action affiliate, delivered these comments before fifty thousand people at the #FamiliesBelongTogether march in Washington, DC on June 30, 2018. Click on the image below to hear the speech. My name is...
Protests Nationwide Demand End to Family Separations
Tens of thousands of protesters converged in Washington, DC on Saturday to demand an end to the separation and detention of migrant families. The action capped a week of protests which continue to grow nationwide. “I see myself in these migrants – I see their...
Progressive Breakfast
ACLU Hosts Texas Border Protests ACLU hosts hundreds at 'Keeping Families Together' immigration rally in Texas. USA Today: "On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas, along with several pro-immigrant organizations from around Texas,...
Charter School Chain Wants Profits From Detained Children
Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents at the border isn’t just a cruel injustice to the families affected; it's also good business, and the latest enterprise wanting in on the action is a Texas-based charter school chain connected to the...
Progressive Breakfast
SCOTUS Swing Vote Kennedy Retires Kennedy's retirement could open the door to new attack on legal abortion. NBC: "President Donald Trump has long vowed to nominate Supreme Court justices who would work to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized...
How to Cover a Revolution
“RED ALERT,” read the New York Post’s headline after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory over high-ranking Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley. They competed in the Democratic primary for New York's 14th congressional district, which covers parts of Queens and The Bronx....
New York, New York, What a Less than Wonderful Town
Any city — any society — that lets the rich keep as much as they can grab is asking for big-time trouble, as a compelling new profile of life in New York -- for the non-rich -- makes compellingly clear.
