by Tim Wilkins | Feb 5, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE James Mumm You Say You Want A Revolution? You say you want a revolution? Well, there is a recipe. It’s 2020, and you may be asking yourself where to put your energy in this very important year. To achieve transformational change, first we need to...
by James Mumm | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Protest
You say you want a revolution? Well, there is a recipe. It's 2020, and I am hoping for changes bigger and more transformational than a new president. If you are like me, you also fear for friends, family and neighbors in the rise of white supremacy and fascism in the...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 4, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Hugh Espey We The People Won Big In Iowa Last night we made history. In Iowa, we kicked off incredible momentum that will carry the groundswell of voters who want Medicare for All, Clean Water, the Green New Deal, and Free College for All into New...
by Hugh Espey | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Last night we made history. In Iowa, we kicked off incredible momentum that will carry the groundswell of voters who want Medicare for All, Clean Water, the Green New Deal, and Free College for All into New Hampshire next week, and on to the rest of the country. As...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 3, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Cherie Mortice, Dartanyan Brown Bernie Stands With Iowans, We Stand With Him I’m Cherie Mortice, and I’m Dartanyan Brown. We’re members of Iowa CCI Action and People’s Action, and we’re voting for Bernie Sanders. Here’s why: We believe people come...
by Cherie Mortice, Dartanyan Brown | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Rural
Cherie Mortice and Dartanyan Brown are longtime members of Iowa Citizens For Community Action. They are voting for Bernie Sanders in tonight’s Iowa Caucus, and joined us to explain why, and share some of their favorite campaign moments. CHERIE: I think this...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 31, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl Why – And How – We Endorsed Bernie Sanders People’s Action has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States. We are proud of this choice, and of his values. We are also proud of the deep process that led us to this...
by George Goehl | Jan 31, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
People’s Action has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States. We are proud of this choice, and of his values. We are also proud of the deep process that led us to this decision. It reflects our commitment to radical democracy, so every voice...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 30, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Democrats Should Want Joe Biden To Testify Joe Biden’s strongest argument to be the Democratic Presidential nominee is that he has the best chance of defeating Donald Trump. There’s a clear way to test this. Democrats should accept the...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Joe Biden’s strongest argument to be the Democratic Presidential nominee is that he has the best chance of defeating Donald Trump. There’s a clear way to test this. Democrats should accept the challenge being floated by some Republicans to trade witness testimony by...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 29, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Marsha Cole The People’s Housing Platform Moves Us Towards Housing Justice I’ve been to Washington, D.C. three times in my life. The first was in 1963, as a young girl, to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak at the March on Washington. The second...
by Marsha Cole | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Housing
Marsha Cole speaks on Capitol Hill at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, on behalf of People's Action and the Jane Addams Senior Caucus, to introduce the People's Housing Platform. Click here to watch the livestream. I’ve been to Washington, D.C. three times in my life....
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 28, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Michael McKinley We Don’t Need Another Liar-In-Chief: Biden Must Tell The Truth About Medicare For All I’m an Iowan, a father, and a voter. And I’m just plain tired of the lies too many candidates tell us about health care. They say we don’t need...
by Michael McKinley | Jan 28, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Health, I Speak, Inequality
I’m an Iowan, a father, and a voter. And I’m just plain tired of the lies too many candidates tell us about health care. They say we don’t need Medicare For All, when I know that we do. These candidates parrot lines they’re fed by big pharma, big insurers and big...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 27, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Trump Gets An F From Workers Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of “The Art of the Deal,” promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American worker. Trump vowed to rewrite trade deals, stanch the...
by Tom Conway | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Trade
Photo credit: White House / Shealah Craighead / cc Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of “The Art of the Deal,” promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American worker. Trump vowed to rewrite trade deals, stanch the offshoring of...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 24, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Alex Lawson Joe Biden Has Tried To Cut Social Security For 40 Years When Washington politicians talk about Social Security cuts, they almost always use coded language, saying that they want to “change,” “adjust,” or even “save” the program. That’s...
by Alex Lawson | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Recently, a newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign laid out Joe Biden’s long record of supporting cuts to Social Security. The website PolitiFact weighed in on one part of that record, a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Tobita Chow We Need A Real Trade Deal With China, Not Just A Truce Trump crows that the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a “promise kept” to supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his...
by Tobita Chow | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Economy, Election, Environment, Featured, Future of Work, Trade
Trump crows the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a "promise kept" to his supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his trade war. This truce may not last long or deliver anything close to the outcomes he...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 22, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Lies in the White House, Cancer in Our Neighborhoods Something is shaking on the cancer front that needs our full attention. The Trump administration, investigative journalist Sharon Lerner discovered, “is executing an old tobacco...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Tony Webster / flickr / cc Earlier this month, still another one-day-wonder of a Twitter storm surfaced and quickly sank in Donald Trump’s America. On January 9, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society that show —...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 21, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE David Goodner International Students Misled Into Human Trafficking Scam In Iowa Fifty-seven international students studying at a state technical college in Sioux City are being exploited in school and on the job after being lured to Iowa under false...
by David Goodner | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog, Education, Featured, Immigration
Antonio Diego, 24, a Brazilian student in Sioux City on a J1 visa. Photo courtesy of Sioux City Journal Fifty-seven international students studying at a state technical college in Sioux City are being exploited in school and on the job after being lured to Iowa...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Protest
This Monday, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. If he hadn’t been murdered, he would be 91 years old. How would Dr. King view today’s activists? The words to his “I Have a Dream” speech will be repeated from podiums and in classrooms across the...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 17, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Mike Tipping Sen. Collins Lies About Accepting Opioid Money In a conversation with a constituent last week, U.S. Senator Susan Collins at first flatly denied she had accepted money from both the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and...
by Mike Tipping | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Health, Opioid Crisis
In a conversation with a constituent last week, U.S. Senator Susan Collins at first flatly denied she had accepted money from both the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and drug company giant Eli Lilly. The Sacklers have admitted to misleadingly...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 16, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Priscilla Robinson The Numbers We Need To End Our Overdose Crisis Governor Murphy just told us fewer New Jerseyans died last year from preventable overdoses than the year before. That’s good news. But we agree with Governor Murphy that 3,021 lives lost...
by Priscilla Robinson | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Opioid Crisis
Governor Murphy just told us fewer New Jerseyans died last year from preventable overdoses than the year before. That’s good news. But we agree with Governor Murphy that 3,021 lives lost is not a number to celebrate. Because each of these lives was a mother, a father,...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 15, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway America’s Do-Nothing Senate The Republican-controlled Senate has ignored around 400 bills the House passed this year. When these legislators refuse to legislate, they’re telling the American people that they couldn’t care less about urgent...
by Tom Conway | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Future of Work, Politics
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Patients have punched Marketa Anderson. They’ve kicked and head-butted her. They’ve slammed her into walls. One threw a shoe, hitting her. Then he threw a chair at her—and missed. Health care workers like Anderson, president...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 14, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Richard Eskow What Corporate Democrats Really Mean When They Say ‘Purity Test’ “Purity test”? “Pragmatic progressive”? “Free stuff”? What are these politicians talking about? If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Certain words and phrases are routinely...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Politics
“Purity test”? “Pragmatic progressive”? “Free stuff”? What are these politicians talking about? If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Certain words and phrases are routinely used by “centrist” political candidates. By design, these terms are imprecise, emotionally...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 13, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Joy Blackwood How Our Country Talks About The War On Drugs Is Backwards More than sixty members of People’s Action and the Center for Popular Democracy’s Opioid Network gathered with health care experts, providers and advocates for three days in...
by Joy Blackwood | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health, Opioid Crisis
“How our country talks about the war on drugs is backwards,” said Kassandra Frederique, in her opening remarks to the first-ever convening of the People’s Action Overdose Crisis Cohort in Washington, D.C.“Criminalization of drug use and drug prohibition was no...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 10, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Suzette Brooks Masters To Win On Immigration, We Have To Lead With Love A massive wave of immigration has transformed our country over the last fifty years. We’re up to 14 percent foreign-born, which is near a historic high. And immigration now touches...
by Suzette Brooks Masters | Jan 10, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Immigration
Members of the People's Action Deep Canvass team in rural Michigan The fear of change is a wedge being used to divide Americans, and weaken our pluralistic democracy. That’s the key conclusion Suzette Brooks Masters, a longtime advocate for immigrant justice, reaches...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 9, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sarah Anderson Congress Needs To End War Profiteering Now The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across...
by Sarah Anderson | Jan 9, 2020 | Blog, Economy, Featured
The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across the Middle East, while working families across the U.S. would bear the brunt...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 8, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Wake Up, Democrats. Bomb-‘Em-All Bolton Won’t Help Impeachment Democrats seem thrilled that John Bolton – a leading neoconservative, an advocate of bombing Iran and North Korea, and, briefly, Trump’s National Security advisor – has said...
