by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
America’s middle class is under assault. And as our country becomes more diverse, our racial wealth gap means it's also becoming poorer. Since 1983, national median wealth has declined by 20 percent, falling from $73,000 to $64,000 in 2013. And U.S. homeownership has...
by People's Action | Sep 13, 2017 | Breakfast
Today Last Day to Tell Lawmakers To Support Small Business Financing It's incredibly hard for small business owners to get great ideas off the ground without access to bank loans at fair rates. TODAY IS THE LAST DAY we can tell the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
by Robert Kraig | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Governor Scott Walker and Donald Trump claim their $3 billion subsidy to Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn will create thousands of jobs in Wisconsin. But when you dig into the numbers, the Foxconn deal looks like one of the biggest swindles in American history, a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y4xBt_pxsk[/fve] People's Action members around the country today are mourning the death of Jafet Robles, 33, an organizer with People's Action member organization Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts. Robles' body was found Monday...
by People's Action | Sep 12, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Support Small Business Financing It's incredibly hard for small business owners to get great ideas off the ground without access to bank loans at fair rates. We've got until September 13 to tell the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) how...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog
"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Remember when Bill Clinton used this Fleetwood Mac nugget as a theme in his 1992 campaign? Today, as Hillary Clinton's campaign memoir goes on sale, the Democratic Party Clinton and his fellow "centrists" remade in their image...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog
“This is a disaster.” Walker Gaffney and I were at the entry of Cleveland High School in St. Louis. Broken glass speckles the floor. Black mold crawls up the sides of the stone walls. Rotted plaster hangs from the high arched ceiling. “It’s worse every time I come...
by People's Action | Sep 11, 2017 | Breakfast
Trump May Target More Immigrants With Temporary Protected Status The next DACA? Trump administration turns to another class of immigrants. CNN: "As the nation's immigrant community grapples with President Donald Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for...
by Brian Haghighi | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog
America loves entrepreneurs, right? Like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford or Steve Jobs? Think again. It’s incredibly hard for new businesses in this country to get the financing they need to get great ideas off the ground. And unless we act now, Republicans in Congress will...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
The Canadian Royal Mounties have offered to ride to the rescue of beleaguered American workers. It doesn’t sound right. Americans perceive themselves to be the heroes. They are, after all, the country whose intervention won World War II, the country whose symbol, the...
by People's Action | Sep 8, 2017 | Breakfast
House to Vote on Hurricane Relief, Debt Extension House set to cast vote on hurricane aid and debt ceiling bill. CNN: "The House is set to vote on a package of bills Friday that has support from unlikely bedfellows -- President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
The surprise deal President Trump struck this week with Democratic congressional leaders is an agreement to continue the status quo on federal government funding through December. That means three more months to fight against the Republicans' budget proposal, which...
by Miles Mogulescu | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog
Memo to Donald Trump, Jr. from counsel: A bungled crime is still a crime. If you don’t believe me, ask tens of thousands of inmates living behind bars. Planning a crime and failing to successfully pull it off can still be a crime. And Donnie just admitted it, on...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proclaims her agenda is to "focus everything about education on individual students," but if she really cared about the welfare of students she would speak out about what her boss President Trump is doing to hundreds of...
by People's Action | Sep 7, 2017 | Breakfast
Trump Backs Democratic Plan to Provide Hurricane Relief, Avoid Shutdown Trump ties 3-month debt cieling extension to Harvey relief. US News & World Report: "Congressional Democratic leaders struck a deal with President Donald Trump on Wednesday to pass a clean...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 6, 2017 | Blog
Houston has barely begun to recover from Hurricane Harvey, as Irma devastates the Caribbean and heads towards Puerto Rico and Florida. Its hard to imagine all the grief, effort, and cost it will take to rebuild from one of these thousand-year storms, much less two....
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Tears, Rallies as Trump Vows to Roll Back DACA Tears, anger and a promise to fight back as Trump ends DACA. NBC: "There were tears, anger and anxiety as dozens of immigrants, supporters and allies gathered in front of the White House on Tuesday, chanting, singing and...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
While President Trump's boastful comments about crowd size at his tour of Hurricane Harvey's devastation in Houston struck some as egotistical and self-aggrandizing, his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had a similar performance in Florida, where she robotically...
by People's Action | Sep 5, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Trump to Save DACA Donald Trump and the GOP are threatening to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program which protects 800,000 immigrants who arrived in this country as children. Lives are on the line. Tell Trump to preserve our dreams, and...
by Gerardo, COPA | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
My name is Gerardo. I am a proud undocumented immigrant and a grassroots leader at Colorado People’s Alliance (COPA), where we fight for racial justice in our state and nationwide. I want you to know my story. I am one of the recipients of the Deferred Action for...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
The Labor Day parades are over. The bands have packed up. The muscular speeches celebrating workers are finished. The trash is getting collected from parks across the country. And now conservative politicians from Trump on down will revive their systematic efforts to...
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
by Leo Gerard | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog
Watching helplessly as flood waters rose was not an option for Brandon Parker. This Texas refinery worker and member of the United Steelworkers (USW) union has a jacked-up Suburban and a friend with a boat. There was no way he was going to let family members,...
by People's Action | Sep 1, 2017 | Breakfast
One Million Displaced by Harvey A week after Harvey, cities deluged and one million displaced. Reuters: "A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in Texas, no let-up in rescue efforts was expected on Friday as large pockets of land remained under water after one of...
by Krista Sperber | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
All our eyes have been glued to the devastation that is Hurricane Harvey. Here in New Jersey, we are still waiting on the help we were promised to fully recover from Superstorm Sandy, so we know the road home will be long and full of challenges. We feel heartbroken at...
by People's Action | Aug 31, 2017 | Breakfast
Hurricane Aftermath Threatens Drinking Water, Chemical Plants Blasts, ‘chemical reactions’ rock storm-crippled chemical plant in Texas as Harvey flooding persists. WaPo: "The remnants of Hurricane Harvey carried its wrath up the Mississippi Delta on Thursday, but not...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump traveled to Springfield, Missouri to kick off the administration’s next big initiative: cutting taxes. Here was the essential Trump, the confidence man, peddling a plan that does not yet exist on paper. Populist bluster was deployed to cover for what will...
by Alan Jenkins | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog
The President of the United States is a white supremacist. He is not just a defender or apologist for bigots and hatemongers. He is one of them, and no one who’s been paying attention can be shocked to learn this. What’s more, when the President of the United States...
by People's Action | Aug 30, 2017 | Breakfast
Mexico Offers Support to Hurricane Victims Mexico says nope to Trump's wall but offers Harvey disaster relief 'as good neighbors do'. DailyKOS: "Mexico has reasserted that their nation 'will not pay, under any circumstances and under any circumstances, a wall or...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog, Conservatism
People whose lives have been destroyed by floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters face a special kind of anguish. The things they trusted the most - the ground beneath their feet, and the sky above - have turned against them. Their most personal spaces have...
by People's Action | Aug 29, 2017 | Breakfast
UN Issues Warning on Rise of US Racism U.N. issues warning on U.S. Racism. UN News Centre: "The United Nations body monitoring implementation of the global convention on prohibiting racial discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 29, 2017 | Democracy
President Trump has planned a visit to the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday to survey some of the devastation done by Hurricane Harvey since it hit landfall on Friday. As he is doing that, let's survey the devastation left behind by Hurricane Trump since Friday to our...
by People's Action | Aug 28, 2017 | Breakfast
Trump Pardons Arpaio Arpaio pardon dangerously accelerates Trump’s assault on the rule of law. New Yorker: "Since Watergate and the release, in 1976, of the Church Committee report, which detailed wider executive-branch abuses, this vast federal bureaucracy has...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 28, 2017 | Blog
Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou every once in a while likes to think “outside the box.” Back in 2010, for instance, the giant electronics manufacturer that Gou runs — Foxconn — was facing what corporate flacks like to call a major “PR problem.” Working conditions...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog
At the recent Netroots Nation conference, the country’s largest annual gathering of progressive activists and political leaders, a protest broke out when Stacey Evans, candidate for governor in the 2018 Georgia Democratic primary, addressed the crowd. The protesters...
by People's Action | Aug 25, 2017 | Breakfast
Arpaio's Shadow Pardon or not, the fight against Joe Arpaio's legacy is far from over. Splinter: "Outside the convention center, immigrant rights activists set up giant, inflated figures of the ousted Maricopa County sheriff, Joe Arpaio, and President Trump. Arpaio in...
by Alejandra Gomez | Aug 24, 2017 | Blog
Here in Phoenix, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what lies ahead for America under Donald Trump. It will look less and less like a nation of laws, and more like Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawless Arizona, unless we do something about it now. Arpaio was Maricopa County’s...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 24, 2017 | Blog
A recent headline from CNN that declares "schools throughout the country are grappling with teacher shortages" may seem like a rerun to anyone who's been paying attention to news about public schools over recent years. "A perennial issue," an article in Education Week...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 24, 2017 | Blog
After Steve Bannon departed the White House on August 14, he contacted The Weekly Standard to make a bold proclamation. “The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” the administration’s now-former chief strategist said. “We still have a huge movement,...
by People's Action | Aug 24, 2017 | Breakfast
Federal Judge Throws Out Texas Voter ID Law Federal judge tosses out Texas voter ID law supported by Trump administration. LA Times: "A federal judge struck down Texas’ controversial voter identification law Wednesday, ruling that it illegally discriminated against...
