CPD In The News
“We will no longer bank the private prison industry,” JP Morgan announced in March after a long public pressure campaign from groups like the Center for Popular Democracy.
Nick Licata served on the Seattle City Council for 18 years until his retirement in December 2015, named progressive municipal official of the year by The Nation. and is founding board chair of Local Progress, a national network of 800 progressive municipal officials.
Marvel introduces a gay character (who’s in one scene and has NO powers). Kamala Harris wipes the floor with William Barr. Hillary Clinton assumes her final form on Rachel Maddow. And we see if Texas can tell the difference between Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.
Ady Barkan rolled into Washington this week in a motorized wheelchair, unable to talk or to chew food or to lift his arm to scratch an itch, but determined to deliver the message that health care is a human right.
A report by research group In the Public Interest analyzing financial backers of the industry noted that by providing “debt financing, the banks are complicit with the private prison companies in contributing to and enabling mass incarceration and the criminalization of immigration.
Un grupo de activistas de varias organizaciones confrontó a Jaresko fuera de la audiencia, reclamando la cancelación de la deuda, una auditoría formal de las obligaciones generales de la isla y que se echen hacia atrás los recortes en el presupuesto de la UPR.
Un grupo de activistas de varias organizaciones confrontó a Jaresko fuera de la audiencia, reclamando la cancelación de la deuda, una auditoría formal de las obligaciones generales de la isla y que se echen hacia atrás los recortes en el presupuesto de la UPR.
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…
