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La protesta en las afueras de la audiencia fue convocada por los grupos Casa, Diáspora en Resistencia, New York Communities for Change, VAMOS4PR, Power4PuertoRico, Hedge Clippers, Center for Popular Democracy, y Boricuas Unidos en La Diáspora.
Jesus Gonzalez, an organizer with the Center For Popular Democracy, pointed out in a statement that tougher action on predatory creditors would not have happened without "Puerto Rican families on the island and of the diaspora who have fought tirelessly for a just recovery," he said more still ne
It publicly names 38 different groups: Restore Public Trust, Allied Progress, America’s Voice, American Bridge, Bridges Faith Initiative, CASA In Action, Center For Popular Democracy…
The coalition is made up of more than 40 civil rights, immigration, and progressive groups. It includes America's Voice, the National Immigration Law Center, Center for Popular Democracy, American Bridge, Southern Poverty Law Center and RAICES.
If Medicar for All is ever signed into law, what’s known as the “legislative history” will date back to April 30, 2019, and the first word heard by Congress on the question will have been from activist Ady Barkan.
About 50 young people, mostly students of color, who are activists with the community-based justice organization Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT), met with lawmakers such as Sen.
In the retail industry, software for scheduling employee hours is a big sticking point, says Carrie Gleason, who directs the Fair Workweek Initiative at the advocacy group The Center for Popular Democracy.
Ady Barkan is a lawyer and activist who works with the Center for Popular Democracy. Barkan, a 35 year old man, is also dying from ALS, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the terminal illness which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
A crowd of roughly 200 progressive protestors planted themselves on the ground in the middle of a normally bumper-to-bumper four-lane corridor here Monday with a firm message for the drug industry: get out of our way.
Working for the progressive advocacy group the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan started the "Fed Up" campaign in 2012, a grassroots movement to pressure the Federal Reserve to implement policies that would help lower income workers.
