by Leo Gerard | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog
By signing an executive order ending forced separation of immigrant families, President Donald Trump has admitted that this cruel practice was his administration’s policy and that he could have stopped it at any time. Despite having the power to stop taking children...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog
I first saw them sitting as a group in Terminal B at Dallas International Airport. Clean-cut young teens in matching sweatsuits - must be a volleyball team from a private middle school, I thought. They looked weary, but so was I - we'd just found out that our American...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog
Having a democratically governed local school, accessible to all students and fully accountable to the public for how its spends taxpayer money, has been a given for most American families since segregated schools were outlawed, but a new report finds most states have...
by People's Action | Jun 21, 2018 | Breakfast
Trump Ends Family Separations, Still Criminalizes Migrants What's really in Trump’s plan to stop family separations. WaPo: "A new executive order signed by President Trump lays out steps to end the separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. We see...
by Brandy Brooks | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog
“What qualifies you to run for office?” That’s a question I get a lot as I meet voters in my campaign for Montgomery County Council’s at-large seat. To me, it hits at the heart of why I’m running. I’m a working class, Black Latina living in a multi-racial,...
by People's Action | Jun 20, 2018 | Breakfast
Trump Says Immigrants 'Infest" U.S. Trump ramps up rhetoric: Dems want 'illegal immigrants' to 'infest our country'. CNN: "President Donald Trump amplified his heated immigration rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing Democrats of wanting migrants to 'infest our country' and...
by People's Action | Jun 19, 2018 | Breakfast
Trump Digs In On Separatng Families Why Trump is digging in on separating families at the border. CNN: "Logic suggests that the White House, under crushing political pressure, would be forced to back down on its hardline immigration policy amid outrage over searing...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog
Every child understands the pain losing one’s loved ones – even for a moment – can cause. So children have plenty to say about the U.S. government’s separation of thousands of migrant families, with no promise to parents or children they’ll ever see each other again....
by People's Action | Jun 18, 2018 | Breakfast
Father's Day Vigil At McAllen Detention Center Groups demand Trump administration end separation of families during McAllen vigil. KCBS: "Families from across the Rio Grande Valley made their voices heard during a vigil in McAllen on Sunday afternoon. Several groups...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog
When Republicans in Congress passed a big, fat tax break bill in December, they insisted it meant American workers would be singing “Happy Days Are Here Again” all the way to the bank. The payoff from the tax cut would be raises totaling $4,000 to $9,000, the...
by People's Action | Jun 15, 2018 | Breakfast
Protests Against Family Separations Spread Nationwide Marches Across the U.S. Protest Separation of Migrant Families. NYT: "Demonstrators in Los Angeles were joined by activists in dozens of other cities across the country on Thursday evening to protest the separation...
by George Goehl | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog
As more reports surface of children seeking asylum at our borders being separated from their parents, there has been much consideration of the impact and effect on children. As Father’s Day approaches, I can’t help but wonder how I would cope if my daughter was taken...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog
The American economy rests ultimately on trust, a mutual understanding between employers and employees that each side, in the end, will behave honorably. A fair day’s wage, as the classic formulation puts it, for a fair day’s work. This covenant gets broken, of...
by People's Action | Jun 14, 2018 | Breakfast
DC Civil Disobedience To Protest DHS Child Arrests Democrats shut down Pennsylvania Ave to protest Trump’s child separation policy. ThinkProgress: "Several members of Congress risked arrest Wednesday as they protested the Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance”...
by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog
The Supreme Court just gave a green light to racist voter purges. Their 5-4 decision to allow Ohio to take any voter off the rolls who hasn’t voted in two years and doesn’t return a postcard mailed to their house hands a dangerous new tool to the enemies of democracy...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog
One of the more disturbing aspects of the push to create more charter schools was on full display during a Congressional hearing this week when charter proponents stacked the agenda with biased testimony and completely ignored the lone witness who could attest...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog
Despite my contempt for Donald Trump, I’m rooting that his Hail Mary pass in the direction of Kim Jong-un succeeds. And I think other liberals and progressives should hope for the same. Yet even before Air Force One landed back in the U.S. from Singapore, much of the...
by People's Action | Jun 13, 2018 | Breakfast
Women Win Big in VA Primaries Democratic women win big in key Virginia House primaries. CNN: "In the four Virginia competitive US House races in November, female candidates have all won the Democratic nominations, the latest example of the party turning to women to...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
People's Action joins Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and many others in Washington, DC at 8:30-12 on June 13th for 'We The People,' a gathering of more than 1,000 grassroots organizers from across the country. Join us to...
by Mike Tipping | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
The Maine People’s Alliance endorsed five progressive women in contested legislative primaries and Rep. Jared Golden in the Second District congressional race. According to initial results from the Associated Press, all of these candidates have won or are...
by Matt Brusky | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
Wisconsin progressives won an important state legislative special election last night in Senate District 1, with the victory of Democrat Caleb Frostman. Frostman was endorsed by Citizen Action of Wisconsin, a People’s Action affiliate. Members of Citizen Action’s...
by Robert Suarez | Jun 12, 2018 | Blog
Robert Suarez delivers these remarks on behalf of the VOCAL-NY Action Fund at We The People, a forum of over a thousand activists from across the country with elected officials in Washington, D.C. on June 13, 2018. I want share a quote from Lilla Watson that many of...
by People's Action | Jun 12, 2018 | Breakfast
Sessions Blocks Domestic, Gang Violence Survivors From Asylum Sessions moves to block victims of gang violence and domestic abuse from claiming asylum. LA Times: "Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions has ordered immigration judges to stop granting asylum to most victims of...
by Emily Lee | Jun 12, 2018 | Blog
To outsiders, San Francisco may look like a glittering city on a hill: an ethnically diverse metropolis, where tech dollars fuel a vibrant cultural scene and support progressive policies the rest of the nation can only dream about. Women, LGBTQ and ethnic communities...
by Tiara Moore | Jun 12, 2018 | Blog
My name is Tiara Moore. I live in Las Vegas, where I’m a medical administrator, mother of five, and a voter. I’m also a felon. But that’s not going to stop me from using my vote to help others get what I never got – a second chance. When I was twenty, I lived in...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 12, 2018 | Blog
America’s ongoing saga to “reform” public schools is filled with stories of state officials taking over “underperforming” school districts. Recent presidential administrations, including Obama’s, have approved of such takeovers even though, in nearly every...
by People's Action | Jun 11, 2018 | Breakfast
Trump Alienates G7 Allies Trump refuses to sign G-7 statement and calls Trudeau ‘weak’ NYT: "President Trump upended two days of global economic diplomacy late Saturday, refusing to sign a joint statement with America’s allies, threatening to escalate his trade war on...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog
Donald Trump’s unprecedented summit meeting with North Korean President Kim Jong-un could lead to a more peaceful world, or a return to fire-and-fury tweets and provocative military action. It depends, in large part, on whether Trump listens to America’s ally, South...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog
Diehard science-fiction fans will remember the mystical mantra at the heart of the 21st-century “Battlestar Galactica” reboot: “All this has happened before and will happen again.” Democratic Party leaders and members of the mainstream media should keep that sentence...
by People's Action | Jun 8, 2018 | Breakfast
G7 May Exclude U.S. At Summit Macron threatens rare rebuke of U.S. at G-7. WaPo: "French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday threatened to join with other world leaders to issue a rare rebuke of the United States at a global summit here this weekend, drawing...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 8, 2018 | Blog
Perhaps the most condescending and unintentionally revealing comments any banker made in the wake of the banker-created 2008 financial crisis came from Jamie Dimon, CEO of too-big-to-fail bank JP Morgan Chase. “Not to be funny about it,” Dimon told a congressional...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Mulvaney Disbands CFPB Advisory Council Mulvaney effectively fires CFPB advisory council. NPR: "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to come under fire by the man running the watchdog agency — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director appointed by President...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 7, 2018 | Blog
In reviewing the losers in this week's primary elections in eight states, one shouldn't overlook the charter school industry, which took a drubbing in the California governor's race where its preferred candidate former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa drew a...
by People's Action | Jun 6, 2018 | Breakfast
Dems Score Primary Wins Dems, women score gains at polls. The Hill: "Voters in seven states cast their ballots Tuesday in what amounts to the most significant primary election of the 2018 season, a Super Tuesday for partisans battling for control of Congress. In...
by Hugh Espey | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog
“Our fight to lift up a million Iowans didn’t end when the polls closed,” said Cathy Glasson last night, when she conceded her race in the Democratic governor’s primary. “We’ve built a bold, progressive movement that will be a force to be reckoned with in Iowa...
by People's Action | Jun 5, 2018 | Breakfast
Primary Votes In Eight States What you need to know about Tuesday's primaries. CBS: "There are eight states holding primaries on Tuesday, June 5: Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota. That makes Tuesday one of the...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2018 | Blog
Fifty years ago, in the dust and fire of global youth activism, everything seemed possible. The political world was a cloud filled with chaos and opportunity, pain and promise. The young were a powerful force, even a world-changing one. Could they become that force...
by People's Action | Jun 4, 2018 | Breakfast
Trump Not Above The Law Trump’s lawyer is dead wrong on obstruction of justice. Just Security: "The Declaration of Independence charged King George III with 'obstruct[ing] the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to the laws for establishing judiciary...
by Abby Frerick | Jun 4, 2018 | Blog
Iowans do things their own way - especially when it comes to politics. I know: I’m born and raised in Cedar Rapids, and am a first-generation freshman at Grinnell College, a liberal arts school in the center of the state whose progressive roots reach back to the...
by People's Action | Jun 1, 2018 | Breakfast
U.S. Slaps Allies With Tariffs Angry allies plan to retaliate over U.S. trade tariffs. MarketWatch: "The U.S. will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union starting on Friday, the Trump administration said, raising the...
