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Some of other new groups backing the bill say their interest comes because Democrats are now on the offense.

The letter from Durham City Councilmember Javiera Caballero and Mecklenburg County Commissioner Susan Rodriguez-McDowell was sent to the media in a release from Local Progress, a project from the larger organization Popular Democracy.

The new report “Our Homes Our Future,” by PolicyLink Right to the City Alliance and Center for Popular Democracy, says “Leveraging this powerful yet underutilized tool would have tremendous payoff: if the rent control and tenant protection policies being debated right now in states and localities

In thinking about 2020, in thinking about both the Senate and the presidential race, this is a moment for us to put a marker down about the type of country we are trying to build,” said Jennifer Epps-Addison, president of the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group.

Jennifer Epps-Addison, the president of the Center for Popular Democracy Action, which organizes low-income communities of color and is backing the legislation, said that even though she and her husband had decent employer-sponsored coverage, his multiple sclerosis diagnosis three years ago turne

This means a Medicare for All program would need to be implemented as quickly as possible.

By the time the dust settled, national and local groups including the Action Center on Race and the Economy, the Center for Popular Democracy, Demand Progress, Good Jobs First, Jobs with Justice, the Partnership for Working Families, SumOfUs, ALIGN NY, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, DRUM –

People deserve to know who is benefiting from caging children," said Ana Maria Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, an advocacy group connected to Make the Road. "Too little is known about the profit motives behind aggressive immigration enforcement.

“The report, titled “Six Billion Reasons to Go After the Banks,” was released Wednesday at a public forum organized by the student movement at the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus by the Public Accountability Initiative (PAI), in partnership with Hedge Clippers, a group that advocat

Por su parte, Julio López Varona, Co-Director de Campañas comunitarias de El Center for Popular Democracy y coordinador de Hedge Clippers expresó: “Durante años, grupos comunitarios han argumentado que partes importantes de la deuda puertorriqueña se habían emitido ilegalmente y no deberían pagar