by Steven Rosenfeld | Nov 21, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: White House official photo / cc As 2020 nears, disinformation—intentionally false political propaganda—is increasing and getting nastier. Central to this disturbing trend is President Trump, whose re-election campaign and allies revel in mixing selected...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 20, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Corporate Spies Keep An Eye On Organized Labor Google’s computers are spying on its workers. Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meeting involving more than 100 co-workers, management gets an alert—a great way for...
by Tom Conway | Nov 20, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth
Google’s computers are spying on its workers. Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meeting involving more than 100 co-workers, management gets an alert—a great way for the anti-union corporation to sniff out union organizing efforts. Lots of...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 19, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage Warren Won’t Back Down On Medicare For All When Elizabeth Warren was criticized for not detailing how she would pay for Medicare for All, most pundits assumed she would duck and cover. M4A is Bernie Sanders’s signature legislation, but...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 19, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
When Elizabeth Warren was criticized for not detailing how she would pay for Medicare for All, most pundits assumed she would duck and cover. M4A is Bernie Sanders’s signature legislation, but the establishment dismisses him as a movement candidate. Warren, on the...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 18, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Mehrdad Azemun How We Can Breathe Life Back Into Democracy Many people hate the word “politics.” They equate it with corruption, greed and the consolidation of unchecked power. And the U.S. Presidential race only magnifies these feelings and...
by Mehrdad Azemun | Nov 18, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Many people hate the word “politics.” They equate it with corruption, greed and the consolidation of unchecked power. And the U.S. Presidential race only magnifies these feelings and perceptions. Our sitting President, Donald Trump, has proven himself a master at...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 15, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Striking Teachers Are Fighting For Much More Than Paychecks While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another important story often overlooked by national reporters is the ongoing struggle to...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 15, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another important story often overlooked by national reporters is the ongoing struggle to defend public education in the months that follow successful strikes. In Oakland,...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 14, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Can Bloomberg Buy The White House? Michael Bloomberg’s first term as the mayor of New York began after the billionaire spent an incredible $74 million to get himself elected. He spent, in effect, $99 for every vote he received. Now...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 14, 2019 | Democracy, Election, Featured, Politics
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc The 220-year-old Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York’s mayors since 1942, hosted billionaire Michael Bloomberg for three terms. The first term began after Bloomberg, then the Republican candidate for mayor,...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 13, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Ross Floyd Migrants Are Iowans, And We Stand With Them To his fellow migrants and to all of us at Iowa CCI, Jose Robinson Palacios is a hero. That’s because he saved the lives of dozens of children on his trek north from Honduras, carrying them one by...
by Ross Floyd | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured, I Speak, Immigration
How it would feel to walk fifty days to save your unborn child, only to be locked in a cell so cramped you and a dozen other pregnant women had to sleep standing up? WATCH: the full story of @JulianCastro escorting José Robinson to his ICE check-in. “If I...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 12, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sean Broadbent, Cheng-Sim Lim, Sasha Rappaport What It Takes To Win Medicare For All In Los Angeles And Beyond On Tuesday, November 5th, the Los Angeles City Council voted ten to one in favor of a resolution in support of the Medicare for All Act of...
by Sean Broadbent, Cheng-Sim Lim, Sasha Rappaport | Nov 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health
On Tuesday, November 5th, the Los Angeles City Council voted ten to one in favor of a resolution in support of H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019. Los Angeles is now the largest city in the United States to do so, joining Tampa, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago’s...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 11, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adrienne Evans We Can Create The World We Want To Live In I’ll never forget one conversation I had in a little bar in Hagerman, about two hours east of where I grew up. I would start by saying, you know, “I just want to talk to you about some of these...
by Adrienne Evans | Nov 11, 2019 | Blog, Featured, I Speak, Organizing, Race, Rural, White Nationalism
People's Action congratulates Adrienne Evans, executive director of United Vision for Idaho, on receiving a 2020 Roddenberry Fellowship. The program, whose alumni include Alicia Garza, Michael White and Judith LeBlanc, seeks to empower activists to “think, question,...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 8, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE The Nation's Editorial Board Joe Biden: An Anti-Endorsement Vigorous public debate is the best way for the strongest progressive platform to reach and be embraced by a majority of voters. Progressives may not agree with centrist Democrats like Amy...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 7, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Inequality And The Iron Law Of Decaying Public Services Fires are raging everywhere in California these days, and firefighters are having enormous trouble keeping up. Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured, Inequality, Infrastructure
Photo credit: FEMA / Wikimedia Commons / cc Fires are raging everywhere in California these days, and firefighters are having enormous trouble keeping up. Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the resources to handle act one of what climate...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 6, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Laurel Wales Turning States A Bolder Shade Of Blue Regina Romero – an environmental activist committed to co-governing with the People’s Action affiliate group LUCHA (Living United For Change In Arizona) – made history Tuesday night by becoming...
by Laurel Wales | Nov 6, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured, Organizing
Regina Romero - an environmental activist committed to co-governing with the People’s Action affiliate group LUCHA (Living United For Change In Arizona) - made history Tuesday night by becoming Tuscon’s first woman and Latina mayor in a landslide victory. “I’m still...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 5, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway A Star-Spangled Knockoff America’s manufacturing sector has been decimated, and NAFTA and China’s unfair trade practices are major culprits. NAFTA encouraged greedy American corporations to move U.S. manufacturing and jobs to Mexico: many...
by Tom Conway | Nov 5, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured
Photo credit: futureatlas.com / flickr / cc An American flag made in China is not an American flag. It’s a knockoff. New York Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara wants a guarantee that flags flown at New York events and on New York poles are made in America. He has...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 4, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins Sanders Rallies The 99 Percent In New Hampshire “The one percent in this country is very powerful – no ifs, ands or maybes. But you know what? The 99 percent, when we stand together, is even more powerful. With these words, Sen. Bernie...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 4, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
“The one percent in this country is very powerful - no ifs, ands or maybes. But you know what? The 99 percent, when we stand together, is even more powerful.” With these words, Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a rallying cry for a broad social movement - one centered on...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 1, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Gloria Oladipo Don’t Call The Police, Call Your Neighbors Here is a hard truth: Police do not keep communities safe. This year alone has produced numerous stories of officers causing distress, damage, or death in communities they’re sworn to protect....
by Gloria Oladipo | Nov 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Race, Rural, White Nationalism
Here is a hard truth: Police do not keep communities safe. This year alone has produced numerous stories of officers causing distress, damage, or death in communities they’re sworn to protect. As this epidemic worsens, communities need to find new ways to handle...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 31, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl If Progressives Don’t Try to Win Over Rural Areas, Guess Who Will While Congress advances an impeachment inquiry into possible high crimes by the president, I believe his most destructive acts are his fanning the flames of racism and...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 30, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway NAFTA Is An Accomplice To Murder Oscar Hernández Romero’s friends searched for him in garbage dumps, ravines and all the other places that could hide what they feared to find—the bullet-riddled body of a Mexican labor activist. But they’ve...
by Tom Conway | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Trade
Oscar Hernández Romero’s friends searched for him in garbage dumps, ravines and all the other places that could hide what they feared to find—the bullet-riddled body of a Mexican labor activist. But they’ve turned up no trace of Oscar, who disappeared near the...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 29, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Wait, It Gets Worse: Eli Broad's School Corruption Legacy Billionaire charter-school boosters like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Eli Broad and have turned school leadership into a cartel system focused on advancing careers and...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 29, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
Photo credit: arcticpenguin / flickr / cc Billionaire charter-school boosters like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Eli Broad and have turned school leadership into a cartel system focused on advancing careers and enriching businesses. One can see, in the track...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 28, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins On The Freedom Side At The Nevada People’s Presidential Forum The Nevada People’s Presidential Forum was filled with insights, but it was also a celebration – it ended with a dance party, as PLAN Action organizer Champagne Clark led the...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured
The Nevada People’s Presidential Forum was filled with insightful moments, but it was also a celebration - it ended with a dance party, as PLAN Action organizer Champagne Clark led the crowd gathered at the East Las Vegas Community Center in an enthusiastic call and...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 25, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl The People's Forum Is Letting Voters' Voices Be Heard, Not Just Candidates Many low-income and working-class people – black, Latinx, Native, Asian, as well as many white folks – feel unseen in our politics. We often bemoan the low voting...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 24, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Ryan Greenwood How You Can Make 2020 The Year The People Win At People’s Action, we believe in the power of extraordinary everyday people. We also believe this power belongs in government – including in the highest office of the land. That’s why our...
by Ryan Greenwood | Oct 24, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
At People’s Action, we believe in the power of extraordinary everyday people. We also believe this power belongs in government - including in the highest office of the land. That’s why our movement politics program elevates the voices of the multi-racial working...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 23, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant How Charter-School Billionaires Corrupt School Leadership It’s rare when goings-on in Kansas City, Missouri schools make national headlines, but in 2011 the New York Times reported on the sudden departure of the district’s superintendent...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 23, 2019 | Blog, Education, Featured
Westport High School, one of 26 Kansas City schools closed by John Covington It’s rare when goings-on in Kansas City, Missouri schools make national headlines, but in 2011 the New York Times reported on the sudden departure of the district’s superintendent John...
