by Tim Wilkins | Mar 5, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Does New Voting Tech Help Or Hurt Turnout? On the biggest day of the 2020 presidential season so far, Super Tuesday, America’s biggest new voting system—in Los Angeles County—widely frustrated voters and poll workers in its debut in a...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Mar 5, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk On the biggest day of the 2020 presidential season so far, Super Tuesday, America’s biggest new voting system—in Los Angeles County—widely frustrated voters and poll workers in its debut in a...
by Tim Wilkins | Mar 4, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adiel Pollydore Making The Most Of Every Vote Right across the bay from my home in Oakland, California is San Francisco. Together, these two congressional districts will send fourteen pledged delegates in July to the Democratic National Convention in...
by Adiel Pollydore | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Right across the bay from my hometown in Oakland, California is San Francisco. Together, these two congressional districts will send fourteen pledged delegates in July to the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee to choose our presidential nominee. Together with...
by Tim Wilkins | Mar 3, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Andrew Tripp I Know Firsthand Why Unions Should Endorse Bernie One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what...
by Andrew Tripp | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: Max Goldberg / Wikimedia Commons / cc One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what union organizers do when...
by Tim Wilkins | Mar 2, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Vijay Prasad Why We Must Remember Berta Cáceres On March 2, 2016, gunmen broke into the home of Berta Cáceres Flores and assassinated her. Cáceres led the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), which opposed...
by Vijay Prashad | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: goldmanprize.org On July 15, 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), led by Berta Cáceres Flores, went to protest the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River. This river, in western...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 28, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Wisconsin's Voter Purge Is Coming To Your State Wisconsin has become early 2020’s Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: AFGE / flickr / cc Wisconsin has become early 2020’s Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and underlying data could lead to removing thousands of...
by David Goodner | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
“I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be discussing tonight are issues that I raised four years ago.” ...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE David Goodner Why Bernie Sanders Is Winning “I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders said during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 26, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Alexa Kasdan What Mike Bloomberg Will Never Understand As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of...
by Alexa Kasdan | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans, I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of women, stop-and-frisk and...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 25, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE David Goodner How Bernie Can Be A Hope And Change President Sen. Bernie Sanders’ electoral victories in the first three early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada make it much more likely that the political revolution will win the...
by David Goodner | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Sen. Bernie Sanders’ electoral victories in the first three early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada make it much more likely that the political revolution will win the Democratic nomination for president and...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 24, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Amazon Is Coming To A School Near You Virginians are concerned about their state’s commitment to invest $1.1 billion into creating a “tech-talent pipeline,” a pledge the state made to seal a deal with Amazon for the company to build its new...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog, Education, Featured
This is the second of a two-part article by Jeff Bryant on Career and Technical Education (CTE). Click here to read part one. The national discussion about the movement to privatize America’s public schools has mostly focused on the issues of charter schools and...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 21, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Will Nevada Accurately Count Early Votes? As early voting began in Nevada’s 2020 Democratic presidential caucus, thousands of people had to wait for two hours or more before voting. The bottleneck was due to a shortage of preprogrammed...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 21, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
As early voting began in Nevada’s 2020 Democratic presidential caucus, thousands of people had to wait for two hours or more before voting. The bottleneck was due to a shortage of pre-programmed iPads that the Nevada State Democratic Party gave volunteers to check in...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 20, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant How Corporations Force Their Way Into America’s Public Schools In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog, Education, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: Virginia Department of Education / flickr / cc In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and Technical Education (CTE) that is...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 19, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Can Nevada Avoid A Vote-Count Meltdown? As Nevada prepares for 2020 Democratic Party presidential caucuses after four days of early voting, the big question is will there be breakdowns in the reporting and counting of votes that echo...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
As Nevada prepares for 2020 Democratic Party presidential caucuses after four days of early voting, the big question is will there be breakdowns in the reporting and counting of votes that echo Iowa’s chaotic 2020 caucus earlier this month. That question is not...
by Rev. Kenneth Glasgow | Feb 17, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Election, Featured
I visited Birmingham County Jail this week to deliver a simple message: you are free to vote, even if you don’t know it. And now is the time for you to claim and exercise this right. I was joined by allies from the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, prominent...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 14, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Facing Retirement With Fear Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, La., paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.” The Democratic-controlled House passed—with bipartisan support — a commonsense plan to save...
by Tom Conway | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work
Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, La., paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.” But now, Heck’s sacrifice may have been for nothing because his multiemployer pension plan is one of about 150 nationwide set to go broke. If that...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 13, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld NH Students Fight Voter Suppression With Turnout By 3:30 p.m. on Election Day 2020, as several town officials stood behind tables in the gym where a trickle of people fed hand-marked paper ballots into an Accu-Vote scanner, a few...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
In 2016, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate by a 1,017-vote margin. Even though both parties spent millions on the campaign, the key to Hassan’s victory was thousands of college and university students who registered to vote...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adiel Pollydore Young Voters Make All The Difference For Bernie It took every one of us to bring home Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire Primary last night. A lot of us, like me, are young people who have a vision for a sustainable...
by Adiel Pollydore | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Election, Environment, Featured
It took every one of us to bring home Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire Primary last night. A lot of us, like me, are young people who have a vision for a sustainable and livable future, a vision Bernie shares with us. There’s an alignment between...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 11, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Lisa Demaine People Power Is Winning In New Hampshire This is it, folks! Tuesday’s presidential primary is our big day – when the people power our member-driven organization, Rights & Democracy (RAD), has built over the last four years will shine....
by Lisa Demaine | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Democracy, Election, Featured
This is it, folks! Tuesday’s presidential primary is our big day - when the people power our member-driven organization, Rights & Democracy (RAD), has built over the last four years will shine. We will show the nation what people power truly looks like, as we help...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 10, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Inside the Iowa Democratic Party’s ‘Boiler Room’ Meltdown The app and software that failed to report and count the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential caucus results were not the only miscalculation by the Iowa Democratic Party...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 10, 2020 | Democracy, Election, Featured
The app and software that failed to report and count the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential caucus results were not the only miscalculation by the Iowa Democratic Party and its vendor. Its “boiler room” or secret operations center was unprepared to handle the...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 7, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Gisele Hart New Hampshire Demands Candidates Act Now For A Sustainable Future The world is literally on fire because of climate change, and the next President of the United States must take swift action to end our dependence on fossil fuels. That’s...
by Gisele Hart | Feb 7, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Election, Environment, Featured, Protest
The world is literally on fire because of climate change, and the next President of the United States must take swift action to end our dependence on fossil fuels. That’s why, in New Hampshire, we challenge every candidate who wants our votes to sign our pledge to...
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 Tim Wilkins | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adrienne Evans The Day America Became a Constitutional Monarchy The GOP-controlled Senate, by voting to acquit Donald Trump from impeachment, has made a mockery of our system of governance. By clearing him from charges of abuse of power and...
by Adrienne Evans | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
The GOP-controlled Senate, by voting to acquit Donald Trump from impeachment, has made a mockery of our system of governance. By clearing him from charges of abuse of power and obstruction, Republican Senators have willfully made themselves complicit to his imperial...
