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Who Is Ady Barkan? Activist and Father Living With ALS Took Center Stage at DNC
Who Is Ady Barkan? Activist and Father Living With ALS Took Center Stage at DNC
“Why not take a stand now? You can be an American hero! You really can!” Barkan pleaded. “You could save my life.”...
“Why not take a stand now? You can be an American hero! You really can!” Barkan pleaded. “You could save my life.”
Flake still voted for the bill, and the exchange played a part in Barkan, along with the Center for Popular Democracy, starting a committee called “Be A Hero,” which is focused on supporting progressive candidates and causes. Read more.
Who Is Ady Barkan? Activist and Father Living With ALS Took Center Stage at DNC
How The Eviction Crisis Could Compound Voter Suppression Come November
How The Eviction Crisis Could Compound Voter Suppression Come November
“It’s the compounding of all of the worst things at the same time: an eviction crisis in the middle of a pandemic in...
“It’s the compounding of all of the worst things at the same time: an eviction crisis in the middle of a pandemic in the middle of uprisings” against police brutality, said Ría Thompson-Washington, manager of the Voting Rights and Democracy Program at the Center for Popular Democracy. Read more.
We Should Still Defund the Police
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From 1977 to 2017, state and local spending on police increased from forty-two billion dollars to a hundred and fifteen billion dollars, adjusted for inflation. This skyrocketing increase continued even after crime rates began to fall in the early nineties. Today, the Center for Popular Democracy found, Chicago, Oakland, Houston, Minneapolis, Orlando, and Detroit each spend at least thirty per cent of their general, or discretionary, fund on their police departments. Police-spending figures do not include the hundreds of millions of dollars paid by municipalities across the country to settle lawsuits connected to police violence. ABC News reported that, in the last year alone, lawsuits against police cost the public more than three hundred million dollars. For many city leaders, it has sadly become the cost of doing business. Read more.
How The Eviction Crisis Could Compound Voter Suppression Come November
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