by Tim Wilkins | May 22, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Mary Gerisch Why I Got Arrested For Medicare For All Two weeks ago I was in handcuffs, one of six People’s Action members arrested at Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office in Washington, D.C.. We engaged in a peaceful protest after we asked Mitch to step out...
by Tim Wilkins | May 21, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Martha Burk The Most Dangerous Time For Women’s Rights In Decades We’re living in the most perilous time for abortion rights and reproductive freedom since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Since President Trump succeeded in elevating Brett Kavanaugh —...
by Tim Wilkins | May 20, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Epic Fail Of Charter Schools In Louisiana Parents in New Orleans are sick of the instability temporary charter schools have brought to their community. Now they are organizing to repeal the state law that legalized charters, calling the...
by Tim Wilkins | May 17, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard This Is How Medicare For All Will Save Lives Last month, in a Pittsburgh parking lot following a conference on type one diabetes, three women stood crying. Two of them, mother and teenaged daughter, had just handed a stranger, 25-year-old...
by Tim Wilkins | May 16, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE KC Vick Alabama Won’t Roll Over To The Rising Tide Of Hate Alabama Governor Kay Ivey just signed the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country. Once again, the people of Alabama are left to fend for themselves. This should come as no surprise:...