by Sulma Arias and Eboni Taggart | Sep 16, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Organizing
Here at People’s Action Institute, we feel the way Jill Murphy, a Michigan schoolteacher who is now a full-time organizer for one of our affiliates, felt when she first joined a deep canvass in her home state four years ago. A light bulb goes on in our heads when we...
by Sondra Youdelman | Jul 26, 2021 | #BuildBackBetter, Biden, Blog, Democracy, Featured, Organizing, Policy
July 15th is a day every American should celebrate. That’s when families began to receive direct payments of as much as $300 per child, payments they’ll now get every month through the end of the year, along with a tax credit. This is a game changer for the millions...
by George Goehl | Mar 8, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Organizing
The time has come for an organizing revival. Where we celebrate the evolution of this craft, and reground in organizing fundamentals that transcend form and context. We have shifted an organizing field that was largely designed to win the best thing possible in the...
by About Face | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Military, Organizing, Protest
An Open Letter from Veterans to Recently Activated National Guard Troops Attention Members of the National Guard, We write you as fellow veterans and service members with full knowledge of what’s at stake as many of you are being asked to mobilize against civilians in...
by Jennifer Epps-Addison, Rahna Epting, George Goehl, Leah Greenberg, Yvette Simpson, Dorian Warren, Liz Watson | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth, Organizing
Jim Staus had one goal: To make the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) a better place to work. Jim worked hard, he got stellar reviews and he was proud of his job as a supply technician. But his pay was so low that one winter, he and his wife had to melt...
by Connie Huynh | Nov 27, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health, Organizing, Policy
Achieving Medicare for All in the United States would mean replacing our current broken patchwork of a healthcare system with one where everyone could access comprehensive, equitable care whenever and wherever they need it. The path to winning Medicare Care for All...
