by Tim Wilkins | Jun 6, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leigh Friedman The ‘Secret Sauce’ For Southern Organizing Hometown Action is the youngest and scrappiest member of the People’s Action national grassroots network. Barely two years old, this Alabama grassroots group was on the front page of newspapers...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 5, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Michaela Lovegood Whose Lives Matter? Our Lives Matter Twenty years ago, I was a director of youth programs in the Chicago Housing Authority. I ran an afterschool, GED and job training programs for Black youth living in the city’s public housing. In...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 4, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Blue Carreker How Do We Fight The Rollback Of Roe? We Organize State by state, the Far Right is chipping away at women’s rights. Extremists are carving out a path for Trump’s Supreme Court to eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion that has been...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 3, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage 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,...
by Tim Wilkins | May 31, 2019 | 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...
