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At a rally outside PhRMA’s headquarters, activists accuse drug makers of blocking ‘Medicare for All’

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...

04/29/2019 | Stat News | Civic Engagement

Dying Healthcare Activist Ady Barkan to Testify at Congress's First-Ever Medicare for All Hearing

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...

04/26/2019 | Common Dreams | Civic Engagement
[created] | Published by: Huffington Post
04/26/2019

Democrats Add Single-Payer Champion Ady Barkan To ‘Medicare For All’ Hearing

Democrats Add Single-Payer Champion Ady Barkan To ‘Medicare For All’ Hearing

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...

04/26/2019 | Huffington Post | Civic Engagement
[created] | Published by: Spectrum News Orlando
04/25/2019

Activists Urge Lawmakers to Cancel Puerto Rico's Debt

Activists Urge Lawmakers to Cancel Puerto Rico's Debt

04/25/2019 | Spectrum News Orlando | Organizing for a Just Recovery in Puerto Rico and Beyond
[created] | Published by: Civil Eats
04/25/2019

Fast Food Workers Can Be Fired For No Reason. A New Bill Could Change That.

Fast Food Workers Can Be Fired For No Reason. A New Bill Could Change That.

A recent report entitled, “Fired On a Whim: The Precarious Existence of NYC Fast-Food Workers,” found that 58 percent of 237 fast-food employees have had their hours severely cut, and 65 percent...

04/25/2019 | Civil Eats
[created] | Published by: Medium
04/25/2019

The Green New Deal Died in Congress

The Green New Deal Died in Congress

“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...

04/25/2019 | Medium
[created] | Published by: New York PIX 11
04/24/2019

Activists demand Puerto Rico’s debt be canceled

Activists demand Puerto Rico’s debt be canceled

“We know the fiscal debt in Puerto Rico was created by banks, corporation, and folks that are not from Puerto Rico who have benefited from predatory practices,” said Jesus Gonzalez with the Center...

04/24/2019 | New York PIX 11 | Organizing for a Just Recovery in Puerto Rico and Beyond
[created] | Published by: El Diario La Prensa NY
04/24/2019

A contrarreloj para salvar parte de la deuda de Puerto Rico

A contrarreloj para salvar parte de la deuda de Puerto Rico

Coincidiendo con la sesión mantenida por la juez del distrito Sur de Nueva York en Manhattan, Laura Taylor Swain, hubo manifestaciones ayer en esta ciudad en San Juan pero también en Hartford (...

04/24/2019 | El Diario La Prensa NY | Organizing for a Just Recovery in Puerto Rico and Beyond
[created] | Published by: El Nuevo Día
04/23/2019

Activistas protestan en Orlando a favor de Puerto Rico

Activistas protestan en Orlando a favor de Puerto Rico

“En la manifestación participarán entidades como VAMOS4PR, Center For Popular Democracy Action, Diáspora en Resistencia, Hedge Clippers, Churches United For Fair Housing, New York Communities for...

04/23/2019 | El Nuevo Día | Organizing for a Just Recovery in Puerto Rico and Beyond
[created] | Published by: Medium Politics
04/22/2019

What’s the Best Way to Give Reparations?

What’s the Best Way to Give Reparations?

“Jennifer Epps-Addison, co-director of the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive grassroots organizing network, argues that reparations proposals that don’t include direct financial...

04/22/2019 | Medium Politics | Justice Transformation

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It’s time for us to live up to the full potential and promise for equal protection for all. It's time to put the 14th Amendment into action. It’s time for social housing controlled by our communities, not the ruling class.

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Racial covenants were ruled unenforceable and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) then declared illegal by the Fair Housing Act of 1968 on the basis of the 14th amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. https://t.co/uRWPmstJd1

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