by Jeff Bryant | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
Charter schools have finally broken into the national political dialogue, with presidential candidates in the Democratic Party proclaiming their stances on these schools. But a national debate about charters and “school choice” will be an exercise in empty rhetoric...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 10, 2019 | Archive, Blog, Featured, Housing, Inequality
In our daily lives, as anyone who keeps a household budget can attest, the unexpected happens all the time. A refrigerator motor fails. Some part on your car you never realized existed breaks down. A loved one passes away and you have to — you want to — be at the...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Bill Bianchi The AMA Stops Us From Getting Health Care The American Medical Association needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Because we smell something bad, and it’s you: The way you keep Americans from getting health care is rotten to the core. AMA,...
by Bill Bianchi | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health, Protest
The American Medical Association needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Because we smell something bad, and it’s you: The way you keep Americans from getting health care is rotten to the core. AMA, you can’t fool me, and the millions like me who now know who you...
by Leigh Friedman | Jun 6, 2019 | Archive, Blog, Election, Featured, Leigh Friedman, Organizing, Protest, Rural
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 around the world when they helped lead protests against the state's...
by Michaela Lovegood | Jun 5, 2019 | Archive, Blog, Featured, Gender Justice, Race
Twenty years ago, I was a director of youth programs for a subsidiary organization of the Chicago Housing Authority. I ran an afterschool, GED and job training programs for Black youth living in the city’s public housing. In the three years that I ran these...