Opositores al acuerdo de COFINA: "Esto significa 40 años más de impuestos"
Opositores al acuerdo de COFINA: "Esto significa 40 años más de impuestos"
Mientras, Julio López Varona, Centro para la Democracia Popular (CPD), indicó que la reestructuración del 24% de la...
Mientras, Julio López Varona, Centro para la Democracia Popular (CPD), indicó que la reestructuración del 24% de la deuda aprobada por la jueza Swain significa pagos garantizados a los bonistas sin ningún beneficio para la gente de Puerto Rico. "Por el contrario, los puertorriqueños tendrán que pagar la cuenta en forma de impuestos (IVU) más altos durante los próximos 40 años y más austeridad. Y esto es solo una señal de lo que está por venir. Este es un precedente peligroso que los bonistas a través de la Junta de Control Fiscal intentarán seguir usando al reestructurar el resto de la deuda en las próximas semanas. Nos negamos a quedarnos de brazos cruzados y ver cómo Wall Street destruye a Puerto Rico. Esperen más protestas y movilización pública para resistir este abuso."
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Oakland Teachers Are on the Verge of a Strike
A 2015 report by the Center for Popular Democracy estimated that federal, state, and local governments could lose more...
A 2015 report by the Center for Popular Democracy estimated that federal, state, and local governments could lose more than $1.4 billion to charter school fraud and waste. There are also plenty of legal opportunities for profit: thirty-three states allow for-profit companies to manage charter schools, and four states allow charters themselves to be for-profit.
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Groups Opposed to PR Debt Deal Say It Will Only Lead to More Taxes and Austerity
Groups Opposed to PR Debt Deal Say It Will Only Lead to More Taxes and Austerity
Groups opposed to the COFINA adjustment plan on the island and the diaspora, including the Center for Popular Democracy...
Groups opposed to the COFINA adjustment plan on the island and the diaspora, including the Center for Popular Democracy, Hedge Clippers, the Puerto Rican the Citizen Front for the Debt Audit, VAMOS, and a professor of constitutional law in San Juan (a member of the Citizen’s Commission to Audit the Debt) released the following statement following its approval by federal judge Laura Taylor Swain.
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More Diverse Green Groups Push for More Ambitious Climate Policy
More Diverse Green Groups Push for More Ambitious Climate Policy
By contrast, the groups leading the charge on a Green New Deal, such as the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats,...
By contrast, the groups leading the charge on a Green New Deal, such as the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats, include many young, black and brown Americans, as do many of the organizations who have joined the fight, including the Center for Popular Democracy, Presente, and Dream Corps. And it’s not just advocates. The policy wonks hammering out the details of the proposal are similarly diverse, as are the House members who supported a select committee on a Green New Deal.
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National liberal groups back ‘fusion voting’ in New York
National liberal groups back ‘fusion voting’ in New York
A letter provided to the Times Union was signed by leaders of national liberal groups Indivisible and Moveon, women's...
A letter provided to the Times Union was signed by leaders of national liberal groups Indivisible and Moveon, women's rights advocates from the groups NARAL and UltraViolet, large community organizing networks, including CPD Action and People's Action, and Our Revolution, the organization that grew out of Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign for president, among a dozen others.
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"Now Is the Time to Be Bold and Unapologetic': Progressives Building 'Unprecedented Political Coalition Around Green New Deal
"Now Is the Time to Be Bold and Unapologetic': Progressives Building 'Unprecedented Political Coalition Around Green New Deal
That attention to "frontline and vulnerable communities" has rallied backers such as Jennifer Epps-Addison, president...
That attention to "frontline and vulnerable communities" has rallied backers such as Jennifer Epps-Addison, president and co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy Network.
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House Dems hold presser to cut funding for "deportation force"
House Dems hold presser to cut funding for "deportation force"
Reps Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley and Omar will participate in a news conference with members of United We Dream,...
Reps Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley and Omar will participate in a news conference with members of United We Dream, MoveOn.org, Indivisible, the Center for Popular Democracy and CASA to call on Congress to cut funding for Pres Trump's "deportation force."
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Democrat lawmakers urge no more funding for ICE
Democrat lawmakers urge no more funding for ICE
The groups United We Dream, CASA Maryland, Indivisible, Move On and the Center for Popular Democracy organized the...
The groups United We Dream, CASA Maryland, Indivisible, Move On and the Center for Popular Democracy organized the event under the slogan "Defund the deportation force."
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250,000 Strong: Frontline Organizers Call for NO to Racist Border Wall!
250,000 Strong: Frontline Organizers Call for NO to Racist Border Wall!
The petition was circulated by progressive groups United We Dream, the Center for Popular Democracy, Move On, Casa and...
The petition was circulated by progressive groups United We Dream, the Center for Popular Democracy, Move On, Casa and Indivisible.
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Ocasio-Cortez Claims Latinos Have the Same Status as Native Americans
Ocasio-Cortez Claims Latinos Have the Same Status as Native Americans
Ocasio-Cortez, along with Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Aryanna Pressley of...
Ocasio-Cortez, along with Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Aryanna Pressley of Massachusetts have been promoting an anti-ICE/CBP petition which was first circulated by left-wing activist groups including Move On, United We Dream and the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), reported The Hill. The petition has over 200,000 signatures.
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