by Laurel Wales | Sep 12, 2018 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Leigh Friedman, Politics
As 2018 primaries draw to a close, People's Action Deputy Director of Movement Politics Laurel Wales sits down with Leigh Friedman to talk about grassroots candidates we've supported and the importance of what she calls "the politics of joy." This is part one of two....
by Alejandra Gomez | Aug 29, 2018 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Politics
Arizonans are standing up to say once and for all, ¡YA BASTA! It’s time we have the elected leaders we deserve, who will courageously fight for us at all levels of government. Tuesday’s primary victories are clear evidence that when we fight, we win. It’s been a long...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 29, 2017 | Democracy
President Trump has planned a visit to the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday to survey some of the devastation done by Hurricane Harvey since it hit landfall on Friday. As he is doing that, let's survey the devastation left behind by Hurricane Trump since Friday to our...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | Mar 8, 2017 | Democracy
Exclusive access to President Trump might sound good to a CEO, but it comes at a cost to your business. Just ask Uber chief Travis Kalanick. In early February, Kalanick was compelled to step down from Trump's closed-door economic advisory council after People’s Action...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog, Democracy
The face of Jim Crow wasn't always the hooded Klansman, the defiant governor at the schoolhouse door or the club-wielding sheriff. It often smiled, uttered smooth words and offered a pat on the shoulder to quell the bubbling uprising. Racism, in other words, could...
by Judith LeBlanc | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Democracy
Sunday’s announcement that the federal government will not approve a permit for a segment of the Dakota Access Pipeline through the Standing Rock territory in North Dakota was a landmark environmental justice and Native tribal sovereignty victory. That victory,...
