by Blue Carreker | Jun 4, 2019 | Archive, Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Gender Justice, Politics
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 ours since the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling in 1974. Sadly, a new Supreme Court...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 3, 2019 | Archive, Blog, Election, Featured, Politics
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, left-leaning candidates dispute both the “indispensable nation”...
by David Hatch | May 30, 2019 | Archive, Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Organizing, Politics
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, just a few months into the Trump administration, 72 grassroots leaders out of the...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | May 24, 2019 | #PeoplesWave, Archive, Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Chicago’s 2019 municipal elections delivered significant victories for progressives. These wins come after years of work by unions and People's Action member groups, and may provide a model for organizers in other cities looking to win progressive governing power....
by Ryan Greenwood | May 15, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured, Politics
Evelynne Castillo is eighteen, the daughter of a undocumented immigrant in Mesa, Arizona. Laural Clinton is a widowed mother of three Black boys in Des Moines, Iowa. Brandy Staples lives in Maine, where she was diagnosed with Stage Four breast cancer at age...
by Kat Legier | Apr 23, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured
Senator Elizabeth Warren just stepped up to support Free College For All. And it’s not just a pose. How do I know? Because I got to ask her myself – twice. I’m a freshman at the University of New Hampshire, studying sociology and studio art. Moving to the Granite...
