by Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-NY) | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Leigh Friedman
We all want a new President – but at People’s Action, we know it will take a lot more than one candidate at the top to turn this country around. That’s why we’re recruiting and training more than 500 grassroots community leaders to run for elected office at every...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Politics
Photo credit: office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi There’s nothing like the intervention of a true racist to provide a sense of proportion. The public dispute between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the group of four young, electric, progressive female legislators of...
by Tim Wilkins | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Justin Vest We Dare Defend Our Right To A World Without ICE Last week, I dropped my kids off for their first day of school in our small Alabama town of not even 7,000 people. The kids were excited, but I was a nervous wreck. Like every dad, my mind...
by Justin Vest | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, I Speak, Immigration, Rural
Photo credit: Hometown Action / cc Last week, I dropped my kids off for their first day of school in our small Alabama town of not even 7,000 people. The kids were excited, but I was a nervous wreck. My kids - eight and eleven - are my heart and joy. Would they have...
by David Hatch | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Politics
Photo credit: CNN Politics / screenshot Watching presidential candidates spar onstage in their last debate, I shared some of Senator Cory Booker’s frustration. Booker lost his cool when former Vice President Joe Biden tried to paint himself as a criminal justice...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 6, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
As Americans lament the current sorry state of democracy in Washington, D.C., government by the will of the people was very much alive recently in Puerto Rico, where a prolonged general strike that virtually shut down the island forced Governor Ricardo Rosselló...
