by Jeff Bryant | Nov 15, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another important story often overlooked by national reporters is the ongoing struggle to defend public education in the months that follow successful strikes. In Oakland,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 14, 2019 | Democracy, Election, Featured, Politics
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc The 220-year-old Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York’s mayors since 1942, hosted billionaire Michael Bloomberg for three terms. The first term began after Bloomberg, then the Republican candidate for mayor,...
by Ross Floyd | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured, I Speak, Immigration
How it would feel to walk fifty days to save your unborn child, only to be locked in a cell so cramped you and a dozen other pregnant women had to sleep standing up? WATCH: the full story of @JulianCastro escorting José Robinson to his ICE check-in. “If I...
by Sean Broadbent, Cheng-Sim Lim, Sasha Rappaport | Nov 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health
On Tuesday, November 5th, the Los Angeles City Council voted ten to one in favor of a resolution in support of H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019. Los Angeles is now the largest city in the United States to do so, joining Tampa, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago’s...
by Adrienne Evans | Nov 11, 2019 | Blog, Featured, I Speak, Organizing, Race, Rural, White Nationalism
People's Action congratulates Adrienne Evans, executive director of United Vision for Idaho, on receiving a 2020 Roddenberry Fellowship. The program, whose alumni include Alicia Garza, Michael White and Judith LeBlanc, seeks to empower activists to “think, question,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured, Inequality, Infrastructure
Photo credit: FEMA / Wikimedia Commons / cc Fires are raging everywhere in California these days, and firefighters are having enormous trouble keeping up. Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the resources to handle act one of what climate...
