by Jeff Bryant | Oct 23, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
Westport High School, one of 26 Kansas City schools closed by John Covington It’s rare when goings-on in Kansas City, Missouri schools make national headlines, but in 2011 the New York Times reported on the sudden departure of the district’s superintendent John...
by Alyssa Aguilera, Jeremy Saunders | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Protest
New York’s City Council has voted to allow the construction of four new jails as part of a plan to close Rikers Island, where thousands of New Yorkers are jailed. The vast majority are there without convictions because they can’t afford bail, or locked up when their...
by Isaac Grimm | Oct 18, 2019 | #PeoplesWave, Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Housing
Spotlights hit New Hampshire every four years, when presidential candidates roll into town. For months, we trip over them everywhere - at diners, supermarkets, town halls, and on small-town street corners. Every candidate is hoping we, as first-in-the-nation primary...
by Joy Blackwood | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Health
As a longtime D.C.-area advocate, I’ve visited Capitol Hill and Members of Congress many times. But never before have I felt I might face arrest for exercising my constitutional rights! Capitol Police are actively stopping us from delivering #MedicareForAll petitions...
by James Mumm | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Democracy, Featured, Protest
Have you heard about the life-affirming, healing power of direct action? You might need it. You may think direct action — the kind of protest that directly confronts power and shifts it from the hands of the few to those of the many — is something you do when...
by Tom Conway | Oct 15, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, America’s fourth-richest person, finally admitted that no one deserves to accumulate as much wealth as he has. But hey, he says, at least he plans to give a lot of his $69.6 billion net worth to charity. That’s nice. But it’s not enough...
