by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue/flickr/cc When striking Los Angeles teachers won their demand to call for a halt to charter school expansions in California, they set off a domino effect, and now teachers in other large urban districts are making the same...
by Cindy Garcia | Feb 11, 2019 | Blog
Photo courtesy of Cindy Garcia A year ago, my husband Jorge was torn from our family and deported to Mexico after living peacefully in the United States for nearly 30 years, working and raising a family with me in suburban Detroit. Just a few weeks later, I...
by Ben Ishibashi | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog
Rev. Tony Pierce and other members of Illinois People's Action speak out at the EPA's "Affordable Clean Energy" hearings in Chicago. Photo credit: People's Action Our planet is being pushed to the brink. Pollution burns our lungs and our children fall sick while those...
by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog
During Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, many of the old, white, Republican Senators and Representatives must have gotten more exercise than in weeks, jumping to their feet to applaud almost every sentence of the endless rhetoric. One of the moments that got...
by Mehrdad Azemun | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog
While Trump didn’t follow his dictatorial instincts in his State of the Union speech to declare an “emergency” on the U.S.-Mexico border - yet - we know what the real emergency is: the thousands of children who have been ripped from their families. There are so many,...
by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog
During President Trump’s State of the Union address, I was enraged by his racism, his rampant lies, his narrow self-interest and his twisted and cruel vision for our country. None of that is new in Trump’s America. In fact, his speech was all too familiar. Not...
