Puerto Rican Diaspora Activists Demand Federal Judge #CancelTheDebt
Puerto Rican Diaspora Activists Demand Federal Judge #CancelTheDebt
Community activists focused on Puerto Rico, including Center For Popular Democracy Action, Diáspora en Resistencia,...
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 demand that the island’s public debt be cancelled.
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Piden en Nueva York auditar la deuda
La Junta de Supervisión Fiscal ya ha declarado que partes de la deuda de Puerto Rico son ilegales. La jueza Swain no...
La Junta de Supervisión Fiscal ya ha declarado que partes de la deuda de Puerto Rico son ilegales. La jueza Swain no debe permitir que se finalice ningún acuerdo de reestructuración antes de que comprendamos en qué medida la deuda es ilegal", dijo Julio Varona López, codirector de Campañas de Dignidad Comunitaria en el Center for Popular Democracy, miembro del comité directivo de “Vamos por Puerto Rico” y coordinador de la coalición Hedge Clippers.
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Politics And Markets Collide: JPMorgan Cuts Ties With Private Prisons, Impacting GEO Group And CoreCivic
Politics And Markets Collide: JPMorgan Cuts Ties With Private Prisons, Impacting GEO Group And CoreCivic
Make no mistake, this decision is mired in politics. The decision by JPMorgan, which follows Wells Fargo and US Bank...
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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Entidades se manifestaron en Orlando para exigir cancelación de la deuda de Puerto Rico
Entidades se manifestaron en Orlando para exigir cancelación de la deuda de Puerto Rico
Las protestas fueron protagonizadas por miembros de organizaciones como el Center for Popular Democracy, Organize...
Las protestas fueron protagonizadas por miembros de organizaciones como el Center for Popular Democracy, Organize Florida, VAMOS4PR, Diáspora en Resistencia, entre otros.
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The Families Belong Together Corporate Accountability Committee Responds to Wells Fargo Decision to Exit the Private Prison Industry
The Families Belong Together Corporate Accountability Committee Responds to Wells Fargo Decision to Exit the Private Prison Industry
The Families Belong Together Committee, made up of more than 100 organizations, calls on banks to immediately stop...
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. Partnering organizations include the following: Action NC, Candide Group / Real Money Moves, Center for Popular Democracy…
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Newburgh supports rent control, tenant protections
Newburgh supports rent control, tenant protections
The Newburgh City Council Monday night went on record supporting rent control and tenants’ rights protection. Council...
The Newburgh City Council Monday night went on record supporting rent control and tenants’ rights protection. Council members voted to urge the state to enact those measures.
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Mainstream Medicare-for-All Proposals Just Got a Lot More Inclusive
Mainstream Medicare-for-All Proposals Just Got a Lot More Inclusive
Last week, that changed. After meetings with a team of experts arranged by Ady Barkan, an organizer with the Center for...
Last week, that changed. After meetings with a team of experts arranged by Ady Barkan, an organizer with the Center for Popular Democracy Action, Sanders and Jayapal have agreed to add these needed supports into their bill. Medicare for All just got a lot more inclusive.
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The Health 202: Jayapal's Medicare-for-all bill reflects influence of hard-line progressive groups
The Health 202: Jayapal's Medicare-for-all bill reflects influence of hard-line progressive groups
The measure bears the signs of close involvement by National Nurses United, the Center for Popular Democracy, the...
The measure bears the signs of close involvement by National Nurses United, the Center for Popular Democracy, the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, Public Citizen, Social Security Works and other organizations that say the ACA didn’t go nearly far enough in ensuring all Americans have access to a generous range of health benefits.
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The White House Thinks It’s ‘Sad’ That JPMorgan Is Divesting From Private Prisons
The White House Thinks It’s ‘Sad’ That JPMorgan Is Divesting From Private Prisons
“We are here denouncing Jamie Dimon’s hypocrisy. On one hand he criticizes Trump’s inhumane policies of separating...
“We are here denouncing Jamie Dimon’s hypocrisy. On one hand he criticizes Trump’s inhumane policies of separating families while his company JPMorgan Chase finances the country’s largest private prison and immigrant detention companies, profiting off by putting immigrant families in jail,” protestor Ana Maria Archila, of the Center for Popular Democracy, said in a statement.
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Trump prioritizes school choice, charter schools in latest budget proposal
Trump prioritizes school choice, charter schools in latest budget proposal
"In the years since the Supreme Court struck down critical protections in the Voting Rights Act, voters of color have...
"In the years since the Supreme Court struck down critical protections in the Voting Rights Act, voters of color have faced intimidation, voter suppression and an outright theft of our electoral power,” Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president and co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, said in a statement Friday.
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