by Mary Gerisch | May 22, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health, I Speak
A few weeks ago I was in handcuffs, one of six People’s Action members arrested at Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office in Washington, D.C.. We engaged in a peaceful protest after we asked Mitch to step out of the way of #MedicareForAll, and he refused. Why was I there,...
by Martha Burk | May 21, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Gender Justice
We’re living in the most perilous time for abortion rights and reproductive freedom since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. While some erosion of abortion rights has occurred over the decades — parental consent laws, waiting periods, procedure curtailment — the...
by Jeff Bryant | May 20, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
When Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education under President Barack Obama, said Hurricane Katrina was the “best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,” he was no doubt referring in part to how the storm and its aftermath led to the spread of...
by Leo Gerard | May 17, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Health, Jobs and Growth
Last month, in a Pittsburgh parking lot following a conference on type one diabetes, three women stood crying. Two of them, mother and teenaged daughter, had just handed a stranger, 25-year-old Michelle, three shopping bags full of insulin pump supplies. Michelle was...
by KC Vick | May 16, 2019 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Gender Justice, Health, I Speak
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey just signed the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country. Doctors now face up to 99 years in prison for offering to end pregnancies, with nearly no exceptions – including cases of incest and rape. Once again, the people of...
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...
