by Tom Conway | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Future of Work, Politics
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Patients have punched Marketa Anderson. They’ve kicked and head-butted her. They’ve slammed her into walls. One threw a shoe, hitting her. Then he threw a chair at her—and missed. Health care workers like Anderson, president...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Politics
“Purity test”? “Pragmatic progressive”? “Free stuff”? What are these politicians talking about? If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Certain words and phrases are routinely used by “centrist” political candidates. By design, these terms are imprecise, emotionally...
by Joy Blackwood | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health, Opioid Crisis
“How our country talks about the war on drugs is backwards,” said Kassandra Frederique, in her opening remarks to the first-ever convening of the People’s Action Overdose Crisis Cohort in Washington, D.C.“Criminalization of drug use and drug prohibition was no...
by Suzette Brooks Masters | Jan 10, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Immigration
Members of the People's Action Deep Canvass team in rural Michigan The fear of change is a wedge being used to divide Americans, and weaken our pluralistic democracy. That’s the key conclusion Suzette Brooks Masters, a longtime advocate for immigrant justice, reaches...
by Sarah Anderson | Jan 9, 2020 | Blog, Economy, Featured
The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across the Middle East, while working families across the U.S. would bear the brunt...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog, Conservatism, Featured, Politics
Democrats seem thrilled that John Bolton - a leading neoconservative, an advocate of bombing Iran and North Korea, and, briefly, Trump’s National Security advisor - has said he would testify at Senate impeachment hearings, if subpoenaed. They seem to hope Bolton will...
