by Tim Wilkins | Jun 5, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Michaela Lovegood Whose Lives Matter? Our Lives Matter Twenty years ago, I was a director of youth programs in the Chicago Housing Authority. I ran an afterschool, GED and job training programs for Black youth living in the city’s public housing. In...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 4, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Blue Carreker How Do We Fight The Rollback Of Roe? We Organize State by state, the Far Right is chipping away at women’s rights. Extremists are carving out a path for Trump’s Supreme Court to eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion that has been...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 3, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage In Search of a Green New Foreign Policy As the 2020 presidential campaign gears up, progressives are forcing a serious and necessary reassessment of foreign policy. Just as they have clashed with the establishment over domestic issues,...
by Tim Wilkins | May 31, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Afua Atta-Mensah We Must Empower, Not Just Praise, Black Women In Politics This election cycle, I want everyone to stop praising Black women for our votes — ask us what we actually want and help us empower Black women in politics. It’s up to us to take...
by Tim Wilkins | May 30, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE David Hatch Co-Governing Puts Us ‘In The Room Where It Happens’ What does it mean to move “from protest to power?” That’s the question People’s Action members like me asked at our national convention in Washington, D.C. two years ago. At that time,...
by Tim Wilkins | May 29, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl Who Is Blocking 'Medicare for All'? A majority of Americans are in favor of Medicare for All. And why not? Right now, nearly 30 million people in this country are uninsured; 40 million can’t afford health-care co-pays and deductibles and...
