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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 5, 2019 | Blog
If you worry about inequality, and if you want an end to grand — and dangerous — concentrations of income and wealth, pinch yourself. We have entered a new political moment. Egalitarians have suddenly seized the policy momentum. They have forced onto the nation’s...
by Leigh Friedman | Feb 4, 2019 | Blog, Leigh Friedman
VIRGINIA — People and Planet First leaders gathered to build a long term strategy to grow their base of low-income people and communities of color in the fight for climate justice. Since its founding, People’s Action Institute has been organizing to address the...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 1, 2019 | Blog
Billionaires are pretty damn sure they know what’s best for you. No more taxes on the rich and none of that Medicare-for-all is what’s best for you, according to two billionaires toying with seeking the presidency. Or, maybe, that’s what’s best for them. One of those...
by Julie Duhn | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog
Communities like mine are dying. Steve King, the congressman who supposedly represents us in the Fourth District of Iowa, should be fighting for us in Washington. Yet he stays mostly silent about this crisis. Instead, King spouts racist rants about immigrants (whom he...
