by Aija Nemer-Aanerud | Apr 29, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Health
“What is our goal in being here today?” Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of UnitedHealth Group (UHG)’s headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota on April 16. “That’s simple! We’re here to demand...
by Aija Nemer-Aanerud | Jan 5, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Health
“There is no one in this country who is not impacted by the cruelty of our for-profit healthcare system,” Kiah Morris told the crowd gathered at the corporate headquarters of Elevance/Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in Indianapolis. “While they have their profits on the...
by Ben Levenson, Connie Huynh | May 20, 2021 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health, International, Trade
Even as COVID-19 vaccines roll out in the United States, there is no end in sight to the pandemic for the vast majority of people in the world. Many in Central and South America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East won’t get access to COVID vaccines until 2024. This is...
by Church | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Criminal Justice, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Monroe County Sheriff / Twitter / cc In May, Citizen Action of New York, part of the People's Action national network of grassroots groups, learned of a man being held in indefinite detention because of COVID-19. We asked him if he would be willing to...
by Sondra Youdelman | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Health, Jobs and Growth, Protest
One of every five working Americans – more than 32 million people – have lost their job to COVID-19. A tsunami of evictions will come unless lawmakers take meaningful action now. Unemployment is rising - again. Hunger is rising, too. And cases of COVID are rising...
by Alan Barber, Hebah Kassem, Sanjeev K. Sriram MD | May 27, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health, Inequality
Photo credit: Sara Eshleman, DOD / cc From alarming death rates for Black, Latinx and Indigenous people to the fact that women of color make up an astonishing percentage of the essential workers putting their health on the line, the coronavirus pandemic is hitting...
