by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog
Jeff Bezos deserves props for standing up to blackmail by The National Enquirer’s publisher, David Pecker, who threatened to print sexually explicit pictures and texts of the Amazon founder if he refused to issue a false statement that The Enquirer doesn’t have a...
by People's Action | Feb 13, 2019 | Breakfast
Border Deal At Brink Is the border wall deal in danger of falling apart? Politico: "Late last night, we started getting text messages that the border security deal was unraveling a bit as senior aides and lawmakers were drafting it. It seems as if the deal was...
by Deborah Rainey | Feb 13, 2019 | Blog
Deb Rainey and other Monadnock Progressive Alliance members I would love to wake up in the morning and not worry my siblings are having a health crisis. I would like our family to have the peace of mind we all deserve. I have two siblings with debilitating illnesses....
by People's Action | Feb 12, 2019 | Breakfast
Lawmakers Sort Of Agree To Avert Shutdown With shutdown looming, sorder Deal Is Reached ‘in Principle’. NYT: "House and Senate negotiators on Monday night agreed in principle to provide $1.375 billion for fencing and other physical barriers at the Mexican border, part...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue/flickr/cc When striking Los Angeles teachers won their demand to call for a halt to charter school expansions in California, they set off a domino effect, and now teachers in other large urban districts are making the same...
by People's Action | Feb 11, 2019 | Breakfast
New Shutdown Looms Over Immigration Impasse Talks over border security break down, imperiling effort to prevent shutdown. NYT: "Congressional efforts to reach a border security deal ahead of another government shutdown broke down on Sunday over Democratic demands to...
by Cindy Garcia | Feb 11, 2019 | Blog
Photo courtesy of Cindy Garcia A year ago, my husband Jorge was torn from our family and deported to Mexico after living peacefully in the United States for nearly 30 years, working and raising a family with me in suburban Detroit. Just a few weeks later, I...
by People's Action | Feb 8, 2019 | Breakfast
Green New Deal Generates Enthusiasm Despite few details and much doubt, the Green New Deal generates enthusiasm. NPR: "For a non-binding resolution with an uncertain future, the Green New Deal is getting a lot of attention, along with a decidedly mixed reaction....
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Green New Deal Calls For National Climate Solutions Green New Deal resolution calls for 'national mobilization' on climate, economy. Politico: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) will release a blueprint for a Green New Deal on...
by Ben Ishibashi | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog
Rev. Tony Pierce and other members of Illinois People's Action speak out at the EPA's "Affordable Clean Energy" hearings in Chicago. Photo credit: People's Action Our planet is being pushed to the brink. Pollution burns our lungs and our children fall sick while those...
by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog
During Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, many of the old, white, Republican Senators and Representatives must have gotten more exercise than in weeks, jumping to their feet to applaud almost every sentence of the endless rhetoric. One of the moments that got...
by People's Action | Feb 6, 2019 | Breakfast
Trump Offers Cold Comfort To Immigrants Trump's speech makes a callous bid for Latino voters. OurFuture: "While Trump didn’t follow his dictatorial instincts in his State of the Union speech to declare an 'emergency' on the U.S.-Mexico border – yet – we know what the...
by Mehrdad Azemun | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog
While Trump didn’t follow his dictatorial instincts in his State of the Union speech to declare an “emergency” on the U.S.-Mexico border - yet - we know what the real emergency is: the thousands of children who have been ripped from their families. There are so many,...
by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog
During President Trump’s State of the Union address, I was enraged by his racism, his rampant lies, his narrow self-interest and his twisted and cruel vision for our country. None of that is new in Trump’s America. In fact, his speech was all too familiar. Not...
by People's Action | Feb 5, 2019 | Breakfast
Dems Troll Trump At SOTU Democrats are trolling Trump with their State of the Union invites. WaPo: "The powder-keg partisanship that drove Capitol Hill into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is not likely to cool by Tuesday’s State of the Union address....
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 5, 2019 | Blog
If you worry about inequality, and if you want an end to grand — and dangerous — concentrations of income and wealth, pinch yourself. We have entered a new political moment. Egalitarians have suddenly seized the policy momentum. They have forced onto the nation’s...
by People's Action | Feb 4, 2019 | Breakfast
DOJ Rolls Back Anti-Discrimination Rules Trump Justice Dept. reversing Obama-era positions on discrimination policies. CNN: "Recent Trump administration moves on civil rights bring into sharper focus its efforts to reverse the Obama era and curtail decades-old laws...
by Leigh Friedman | Feb 4, 2019 | Blog, Leigh Friedman
VIRGINIA — People and Planet First leaders gathered to build a long term strategy to grow their base of low-income people and communities of color in the fight for climate justice. Since its founding, People’s Action Institute has been organizing to address the...
by People's Action | Feb 1, 2019 | Breakfast
House Takes On Voting Rights After years of Republican rule, the House takes on voting rights. Truthout: " The bill before the judiciary committee is known as the For the People Act, and its proposed reforms would address virtually every high-profile electoral...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 1, 2019 | Blog
Billionaires are pretty damn sure they know what’s best for you. No more taxes on the rich and none of that Medicare-for-all is what’s best for you, according to two billionaires toying with seeking the presidency. Or, maybe, that’s what’s best for them. One of those...
by People's Action | Jan 31, 2019 | Breakfast
Foxconn Nixes WI Factory After Receiving Subsidies Foxconn's change of plans in Wisconsin undercuts Trump's promises on manufacturing. CNN: "President Donald Trump went quiet on Wednesday as a deal that would have delivered thousands of new US manufacturing jobs --...
by Julie Duhn | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog
Communities like mine are dying. Steve King, the congressman who supposedly represents us in the Fourth District of Iowa, should be fighting for us in Washington. Yet he stays mostly silent about this crisis. Instead, King spouts racist rants about immigrants (whom he...
by People's Action | Jan 30, 2019 | Breakfast
Actor Attacked In Chicago Hate Crime 'Empire' star Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime. NY Daily News: "“Empire” star Jussie Smollett says he was was the victim of a possible hate crime Tuesday in Chicago after he was targeted by two attackers who hurled...
by Jacqueline Bediako | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog
Photo courtesy of Music of Sound / Jussie Smollett In reading about the racist and homophobic attack on 36-year-old actor Jussie Smollett, I was plunged into deep sadness. I stand in spiritual solidarity with Jussie - I cannot be at his bedside tonight. Instead, I’ve...
by People's Action | Jan 29, 2019 | Breakfast
VA Teachers March To Demand Funding Thousands of Virginia teachers march to state capitol demanding more funding, better salaries. ThinkProgress: "Thousands of Virginia teachers left their classrooms and rallied in Richmond on Monday to demand more education funding...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue/flickr/cc The emergence of charter schools as an important consideration in teacher collective bargaining agreements, and the recognition of charters as a form of privatization, are two major developments in the education policy and...
by People's Action | Jan 28, 2019 | Breakfast
Shutdown Ends For Now, With Few Paychecks Some federal employees still can’t afford diapers as they await paychecks. WaPo: "The partial government shutdown is over — at least for the next few weeks — but that did not matter to the group unloading thousands of diapers...
by People's Action | Jan 25, 2019 | Breakfast
Trump Tells Unpaid Workers To Borrow Groceries Trump tells federal workers to borrow groceries as second missed pay day looms. ThinkProgress: "President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the 800,000 federal workers who are facing a second missed paycheck at the end...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 25, 2019 | Blog
U.S. presidential contests may seem never-ending, but if the debate is about policy - instead of personality - is that such a bad thing? The 2020 presidential campaign began long before the midterms ended. Reporters have already started covering the gaggle of...
by People's Action | Jan 24, 2019 | Breakfast
White House Digs In For A Shutdown Into Spring Trump admin planning for even longer shutdown. WaPo: "White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has pressed agency leaders to provide him with a list of the highest-impact programs that will be jeopardized if the...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog
Over the past ten years, I’ve written hundreds of articles on topics from Medicare For All, voter suppression, Constitutional law, to Trump’s gold-plated toilet. None has generated more excitement than an article I wrote in December, 2014, urging Elizabeth...
by People's Action | Jan 23, 2019 | Breakfast
L.A. Teachers Win Smaller Classes, Better Pay L.A. teachers end six-day strike after the majority approve contract deal. CNBC: "L.A. teachers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Tuesday and planned to return to the classroom after a six-day strike over funding and...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog
Back during the 1960s and 1970s, in cities, suburbs, and small towns across the United States, teacher strikes made headlines on a fairly regular basis. Teachers in those years had a variety of reasons for walking out. They struck for the right to bargain. They struck...
by People's Action | Jan 22, 2019 | Breakfast
Shutdown Threatens Food Safety Health risks rise as shutdown hits second month. Forbes: "The government shutdown is threatening the health of millions of Americans, increasing the risk for harm as the partial closure of key federal agencies enters its second month,...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 22, 2019 | Blog
In the midst of the longest government shutdown in history, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this week launched a “Dignity of Work” listening tour. The Democratic senator who just won reelection by nearly seven points in the red state of Ohio explained the concept to...
by People's Action | Jan 18, 2019 | Breakfast
Thousands More Migrant Children Separated From Families Family separation may have hit thousands more migrant children than reported. NYT: "The Trump administration most likely separated thousands more children from their parents at the Southern border than was...
by James Mumm | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog
As we enter a perilous period in American history, with Donald Trump’s bottomless insecurity fueling white supremacy and fascism on the one hand and environmental Armageddon on the other, there is an opening of historic proportions for mass revolutionary organizing....
by People's Action | Jan 17, 2019 | Breakfast
Government Shutdown Damages Economy Shutdown will be worse for economy than first thought, White House says. NPR: "The partial government shutdown is inflicting far greater damage on the U.S. economy than the Trump administration previously estimated, the White House...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 17, 2019 | Blog
Who gets taxed in the United States — and by how much — can change both drastically and fast. Back in early 1916, for instance, America’s richest faced income tax rates that posed, at worst, no more than a minor inconvenience. On income over $500,000, about $11.5...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Court Blocks Census Citizenship Probe Courts thwart Trump’s bid to enact hard-line immigration agenda as Congress dithers. WaPo: "President Trump’s efforts to remake the immigration system through executive power have been repeatedly thwarted by the federal courts,...
