CPD In The News

The Wall Street Tax Act is supported by a number of organizations, including the Action Center on Race and the Economy, AFL-CIO, American Family Voices, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Americans for Democratic Action (A

For the first time in decades, rent control is under serious consideration by lawmakers across the country.

“All of us in Butte County feel the effect of the Camp Fire. The disaster is an opportunity to rebuild in a positive direction, as done by cities in Local Progress, a network for progressive municipal officials.”

“My initial reaction was disbelief,” says Ana Maria Archila of the Center for Popular Democracy, a leading group in the anti-private prison movement. “There were so many points where we were like, let’s just stop, we’re getting nowhere. But the pressure worked.”

Las protestas fueron protagonizadas por miembros de organizaciones como el Center for Popular Democracy, Organize Florida, VAMOS4PR, Diáspora en Resistencia, entre otros.

La Junta de Supervisión Fiscal ya ha declarado que partes de la deuda de Puerto Rico son ilegales.

Community activists focused on Puerto Rico, including Center For Popular Democracy Action, Diáspora en Resistencia, VAMOS4PR, New York Communities for Change, and others, rallied today outside a federal courtroom in downtown Manhattan, as well as in several cities, as part of a day of action to d

“We have a national housing crisis. We need federal action to solve it. Our communities can’t thrive in a marketplace that redlines and displaces us.

The Families Belong Together Committee, made up of more than 100 organizations, calls on banks to immediately stop their financial support for GEO Group and CoreCivic, private prisons that are profiting from mass incarceration and the criminalization of immigration.

Make no mistake, this decision is mired in politics. The decision by JPMorgan, which follows Wells Fargo and US Bank coming to similar conclusions, was derived from pressure by many grassroots organizations like the Center for Popular Democracy.

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