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The coalition is made up of more than 40 civil rights, immigration, and progressive groups. It includes America's Voice, the National Immigration Law Center, Center for Popular Democracy, American Bridge, Southern Poverty Law Center and RAICES.
If Medicar for All is ever signed into law, what’s known as the “legislative history” will date back to April 30, 2019, and the first word heard by Congress on the question will have been from activist Ady Barkan.
About 50 young people, mostly students of color, who are activists with the community-based justice organization Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT), met with lawmakers such as Sen.
In the retail industry, software for scheduling employee hours is a big sticking point, says Carrie Gleason, who directs the Fair Workweek Initiative at the advocacy group The Center for Popular Democracy.
Ady Barkan is a lawyer and activist who works with the Center for Popular Democracy. Barkan, a 35 year old man, is also dying from ALS, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the terminal illness which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
A crowd of roughly 200 progressive protestors planted themselves on the ground in the middle of a normally bumper-to-bumper four-lane corridor here Monday with a firm message for the drug industry: get out of our way.
Working for the progressive advocacy group the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan started the "Fed Up" campaign in 2012, a grassroots movement to pressure the Federal Reserve to implement policies that would help lower income workers.
Expect protests today to tee up tomorrow's hearing. National Nurses United, the Center for Popular Democracy and other groups will be outside PhRMA this afternoon.
In many ways, Barkan violates all three of the criteria. He is the founder of the Be A Hero PAC, an outspoken activist for single-payer, and while an enthusiastic defender of the ACA, he has also been clear that the law alone is not enough.
He plans to address the U.S. House Rules Committee next Tuesday morning "using a computer system that tracks his eye movements and subsequently converts text into speech," according to a statement from Be A Hero, the political group he founded.
