by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 17, 2015 | Democracy
It is unacceptable that the Supreme Court has given corporations the constitutional right to use their money to manipulate how ballots are cast in our elections, but has yet to assert that citizens have a constitutional right to cast those ballots to begin with....
by Miya Pontes | Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
Pocan and Ellison to Introduce Right to Vote Constitutional Amendment In an effort to undo the work being done in numerous states and counties to disenfranchise groups of voters, two progressive House members are aiming to make a promise that is implicit in the...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog, Democracy, Financial Reform
The budget bill called the "Cromnibus" (for Continuing Resolution and OMNIBUS budget bill) passed over the weekend. It included a provision undoing part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulation bill, allowing banks to gamble on derivatives using money from...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 2, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference will be held Jan. 15–19 in Atlanta at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. The event is hosted by the AFL-CIO’s Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department. Through plenaries, workshops and panels, attendees will...
by john a. powell | Nov 25, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Last night, like many across the world who were watching, we experienced deep disappointment in the decision by the St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenage boy,...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 21, 2014 | Democracy
NOTE: This official statement by the Campaign for America's Future was released after President Obama announced his executive action on immigrant deportations Thursday night. President Barack Obama’s decision to waive the threat of deportation to upwards of five...
