CPD In The News
“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.
Katie Adams, of Bowling Green, said she is unemployed, having lost her job as a sales account manager.
"We are in an unprecedented and global pandemic, and we need help," she said. "We did not ask for this to happen. I want to be able to work."
She heard about the caravan on the Facebook page of Unemployment Action, a national campaign by the progressive Center for Popular Democracy, which organized the event. Read more.
Democratic leaders maintained Thursday that the next coronavirus relief package must include a long-term extension of the federal unemployment benefits that have kept millions of jobless Americans afloat during the pandemic, holding firm against Republican threats to upend negotiations over the critical issue. Read more.
If Joe Biden wants to signal his commitment to the message of the Black Lives Matter movement, he shouldn’t pick a former police officer or prosecutor. Read more.
El Colectivo Feministas en Construcción denunció hoy, martes, cómo farmacéuticas locales -que manufacturan pruebas del coronavirus (COVID-19)-, presuntamente se lucran durante crisis sin aportar en el manejo de la crisis local.
Sin embargo, Puerto Rico enfrenta actualmente una escasez de pruebas.
To truly ensure safety in schools safe, the Demand Safe Schools coalition, a group that includes United Teachers Los Angels and the Center for Popular Democracy, laid out far-reaching demands... Read more.
"As part of their organizing, Journey for Justice and the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the Center for Popular Democracy sent a letter Monday morning to President Donald Trump laying out 15 demands for a safe and equitable reopening, including fully functioning air conditioning and ventilation units, free laptops and internet access for every student, regular coronavirus testing, and an elimination of police in schools.
In 2017, a report from The Center for Popular Democracy, Law for Black Lives and the Black Youth Project 100 estimated that the U.S. spent a collective $100 billion on law enforcement and another $80 billion
are continuously increasing the amount of spending that we do on policing and criminalization, and that naturally comes with tradeoffs,” Kumar Rao, director of the Justice Transformation Program at the Center … for Popular Democracy, told The Intercept.
“The kind of activism and tactics that folks took to corporate boards … is what happens every year in cities around the country,” says Kumar Rao, director of justice transformation at the Center for Popular
