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As Critics United, Stalled Battle Against Frisking Tactic Took Off

The New York Times - August 13, 2013, by J. David Goodman - As the Police Department performed a mounting number of stops on New York streets, voices of opposition, slow and scattershot,...

Working Class Black, Latino Communities of Wichita to Challenge Kansas City Fed President Esther George’s Economic Perspective

03.29.2016


This Tuesday Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George will visit Wichita to meet with the Fed Up Coalition, led by Sunflower Community...

Holding Wall Street Accountable

Groups launch 'people's filibuster' against GOP health bill

More than a dozen groups opposing the Senate GOP's healthcare bill will hold a "people's filibuster" for two days on the lawn of the Capitol. 

Activists and Democratic lawmakers will speak...

Civic Engagement

Conservatives May Control State Governments, But Progressives Are Rising

Common Dreams - March 13, 2015, by George Goehl, Ana María Archila, and Fred Azcarate - In November, conservatives swept not only Congress, but a majority of statehouses. While gridlock in...

Holding Wall Street Accountable, Organizing for Education Justice

Disney, PacSun, and Other Major Retailers Give Surprise Christmas Present to Employees

This season, nearly 50,000 employees at six major retailers nationwide are getting a gift that will reduce their work stress and get them some holiday cheer: An end to on-call scheduling.

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NBC News | Restoring a Fair Workweek

Harvard's Endowment Is Profiting From Puerto Rico's Debt As The Island's Schools Face Crippling Cuts

Bearing a large banner reading “Harvard Divest from Baupost,” hundreds of activists marched at Harvard Yard on Wednesday. Members of the Harvard Student Labor Action Movement participated in the...

The Intercept | Civic Engagement, Holding Wall Street Accountable

U.S. Department of Education Launches Crackdown on Ohio Charters

Charter Schools are defined by their freedom from regulation and oversight, but that freedom has been so regularly abused by unscrupulous operators that it seems the U.S. Department of Education...

AlterNet | Organizing for Education Justice

CPD's Josie Duffy on Why NY Needs the Scaffold Law

NY1 - August 28, 2014 - CPD's Josie Duffy joins Liz Benjamin on NY1 to discuss why workers need the Scaffold Law.

 

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Latinos make up majority of fatal falls at construction sites in NY

Al Jazeera America – October 24, 2013, by Dexter Mullins and Roxana Saberi -

Latino and immigrant workers are at a disproportionate risk of dying from construction-site accidents in New...

Meet the Group of Feisty Urban Progressives Who Want to Transform the Country One City at a Time

The Nation - December 10, 2014, by Steve Early - A century ago, working-class radicals frustrated with the pace of change often scoffed at their more patient comrades in city government, calling...

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Perkins was a key writer of New Deal policies. Known as an expert on health and safety policy reforms in New York state, Frances Perkins was tapped by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor in his cabinet - the first woman to serve.

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Frances Perkins was born in a world on fire. In the early 1900s Robber Barons didn’t care about workers rights or the safety of children that worked in their factories. “Safety laws” as we know them today didn’t exist- and the wealthy actively fought against them.

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