by Alexis Pleus | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog
As a New York State Trooper handcuffed me at our State Capitol, I told him, “I lost my son. This is for him.” Alexis Pleus, founder of TruthPharm, under arrest at the N.Y. State Capitol in Albany Jeff was an amazing kid, a chef, who was 28 when he died of a heroin...
by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog
Jeff Bezos deserves props for standing up to blackmail by The National Enquirer’s publisher, David Pecker, who threatened to print sexually explicit pictures and texts of the Amazon founder if he refused to issue a false statement that The Enquirer doesn’t have a...
by Deborah Rainey | Feb 13, 2019 | Blog
Deb Rainey and other Monadnock Progressive Alliance members I would love to wake up in the morning and not worry my siblings are having a health crisis. I would like our family to have the peace of mind we all deserve. I have two siblings with debilitating illnesses....
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...
