by Chris Simmons | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Education, Election, Featured
My name is Chris Simmons, and I want to tell you why we need – I need – Free College For All now. I grew up in Newton, Iowa, a small city east of Des Moines. For a hundred years, Newton was the “washing machine capital of the world.” It was home to the...
by David Hatch | Jun 21, 2019 | Democracy, Election, Featured, Organizing, Policy, Politics, Progressive Vision
People’s Action and its member groups have boldly moved into electoral politics, successfully electing our own members and candidates who share our values to office. We’ve done this by building training pipelines and strategies that have proven effective to elect...
by Jeremy Saunders | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Democracy, Election, Featured, Protest, Race
A blue wave surged across New York State last November, as voters went to the ballot box to demand true progressives represent them in Albany. This unprecedented voter turnout helped create an undeniable Democratic majority in our state legislature for the first time...
by Mehrdad Azemun | Jun 14, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured
In a continued series of wins for grassroots people power, People’s Action celebrated another milestone for movement politics in Denver last week. Colorado People’s Action’s (CPA) endorsed candidate Candi CdeBaca ran an insurgent campaign for a City Council seat in...
by Leigh Friedman | Jun 6, 2019 | Archive, Blog, Election, Featured, Leigh Friedman, Organizing, Protest, Rural
Hometown Action is the youngest and scrappiest member of the People’s Action national grassroots network. Barely two years old, this Alabama grassroots group was on the front page of newspapers around the world when they helped lead protests against the...
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...
