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...
by Anat Shenker-Osorio | Nov 25, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Organizing
How do we build a bigger “we”? Anat Shenker-Osorio says we do this when we talk about race and class in a way that welcomes everybody in, and leaves nobody out. This “Race-Class Narrative Strategy,” which she and UC Berkeley law professor Ian Haney López developed in...
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 Laurel Wales | Nov 6, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured, Organizing
Regina Romero - an environmental activist committed to co-governing with the People’s Action affiliate group LUCHA (Living United For Change In Arizona) - made history Tuesday night by becoming Tuscon’s first woman and Latina mayor in a landslide victory. “I’m still...
