by David Hatch | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Politics
Photo credit: CNN Politics / screenshot Watching presidential candidates spar onstage in their last debate, I shared some of Senator Cory Booker’s frustration. Booker lost his cool when former Vice President Joe Biden tried to paint himself as a criminal justice...
by Lois Gibbs | Aug 8, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Featured
“The New York State Commissioner of Health issued an order of evacuation of pregnant women and children under the age of two living in the Love Canal Neighborhood.” That was on August 2, 1978, when the first emergency action was taken to evacuate families from Love...
by Del. Stephanie Smith (D-MD) | Aug 7, 2019 | Democracy, Election, Featured, Leigh Friedman, Politics
We all want a new President - but at People’s Action, we know it will take a lot more than one candidate at the top to turn this country around. That’s why we’re recruiting and training more than 500 grassroots community leaders to run for elected office at every...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 6, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
As Americans lament the current sorry state of democracy in Washington, D.C., government by the will of the people was very much alive recently in Puerto Rico, where a prolonged general strike that virtually shut down the island forced Governor Ricardo Rosselló...
by Tim Wilkins | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Violence, White Nationalism
Our hearts are broken by this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. In a matter of seconds – separated by a few hours and 1,600 miles - twenty-nine lives were stolen, and many more injured, by two angry, young white men with automatic weapons. As shocking as...
by Tom Conway | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured, Future of Work
Donald Trump: billionaire of the people. When he ran for office, he said, “The American worker will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” And how’s that working out for the American worker? Not very well, actually, not very well. When it...
