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Community activists focused on Puerto Rico, including Center For Popular Democracy Action, Diáspora en Resistencia, VAMOS4PR, New York Communities for Change, and others, rallied today outside a federal courtroom in downtown Manhattan, as well as in several cities, as part of a day of action to d

“We have a national housing crisis. We need federal action to solve it. Our communities can’t thrive in a marketplace that redlines and displaces us.

The Families Belong Together Committee, made up of more than 100 organizations, calls on banks to immediately stop their financial support for GEO Group and CoreCivic, private prisons that are profiting from mass incarceration and the criminalization of immigration.

Make no mistake, this decision is mired in politics. The decision by JPMorgan, which follows Wells Fargo and US Bank coming to similar conclusions, was derived from pressure by many grassroots organizations like the Center for Popular Democracy.

Last week, that changed. After meetings with a team of experts arranged by Ady Barkan, an organizer with the Center for Popular Democracy Action, Sanders and Jayapal have agreed to add these needed supports into their bill. Medicare for All just got a lot more inclusive.

The Newburgh City Council Monday night went on record supporting rent control and tenants’ rights protection. Council members voted to urge the state to enact those measures.

"In the years since the Supreme Court struck down critical protections in the Voting Rights Act, voters of color have faced intimidation, voter suppression and an outright theft of our electoral power,” Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president and co-executive director of the Center for Popular D

The measure bears the signs of close involvement by National Nurses United, the Center for Popular Democracy, the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, Public Citizen, Social Security Works and other organizations that say the ACA didn’t go nearly far enough in ensuring all Americans have ac

“We are here denouncing Jamie Dimon’s hypocrisy.

Providing clean drinking water to every resident in the city of Oneida is one of our city government’s most important services.