by Rev. Kenneth Glasgow | Feb 17, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Election, Featured
I visited Birmingham County Jail this week to deliver a simple message: you are free to vote, even if you don’t know it. And now is the time for you to claim and exercise this right. I was joined by allies from the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, prominent...
by Tom Conway | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work
Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, La., paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.” But now, Heck’s sacrifice may have been for nothing because his multiemployer pension plan is one of about 150 nationwide set to go broke. If that...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
In 2016, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate by a 1,017-vote margin. Even though both parties spent millions on the campaign, the key to Hassan’s victory was thousands of college and university students who registered to vote...
by Adiel Pollydore | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Election, Environment, Featured
It took every one of us to bring home Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire Primary last night. A lot of us, like me, are young people who have a vision for a sustainable and livable future, a vision Bernie shares with us. There’s an alignment between...
by Lisa Demaine | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Democracy, Election, Featured
This is it, folks! Tuesday’s presidential primary is our big day - when the people power our member-driven organization, Rights & Democracy (RAD), has built over the last four years will shine. We will show the nation what people power truly looks like, as we help...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 10, 2020 | Democracy, Election, Featured
The app and software that failed to report and count the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential caucus results were not the only miscalculation by the Iowa Democratic Party and its vendor. Its “boiler room” or secret operations center was unprepared to handle the...
