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Una polémica se desató por el retiro de una réplica de la Estatua de la Libertad frente a las oficinas de Servicios de Ciudadanía e Inmigración (USCIS) en Washington, D.C., ya que organizaciones civiles acusaron que fue Ken Cuccinelli, director de esa dependencia, quien ordenó retirar dicha escul

Connie Razza, director of strategic research at the progressive activist group Center For Popular Democracy, also addressed the issue at the conference.

Racism is central to Donald Trump’s brand of politics, but it is nothing new in America — its pervasiveness is arguably one key reason America’s social policies are so reactionary compared to other rich nations, with millions lacking access to basic services like health care, child care, paid vac

The Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank is the largest bank in Pennsylvania and operates banks in 19 states. PNC was a large funding partner of CoreCivic, the second-largest private prison operator in the country.

The deadly mass shooting in El Paso this past weekend was an attack on a U.S. city that many of us call home.

Pierluisi is highly problematic,” said Julio López Varona, a San Juan-based lawyer who works with the Center for Popular Democracy, a think tank. “All of this signals that he would support more privatization and that the current debt deals being negotiated would potentially favor vultures.

Puerto Rican activist Julio López Varona, who works as an organizer for the New York-based Center for Popular Democracy––one of the groups behind the mass protests calling for Rosselló’s resignation — says Thursday’s hearings further illustrate the dysfunction within the Puerto Rican government.

Kumar Rao of the Center for Popular Democracy was one of the authors of the report. “As a nation we’re spending over $100 billion a year on policing and the vast bulk of that is actually at the local level,” he told The Appeal in June.

But it has long faced external pressure to keep rates low. Fed Up, an advocacy group started in 2014 and affiliated with the left-leaning Center for Popular Democracy, spent Ms. Yellen’s tenure pushing the central bank to hold off on raising rates so that unemployment could fall more.

In “Building Momentum From the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing”, published by The Center for Popular Democracy in April 2015, we are provided 15 thoughtful methods to reform policing and criminal justice at the local and state level.