Informe advierte sobre plan de ajuste de Cofina
En rueda de prensa desde el Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas en San Juan, representantes de Little Sis, del Frente...
En rueda de prensa desde el Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas en San Juan, representantes de Little Sis, del Frente Ciudadano por la Auditoría de la Deuda, VAMOS, Center for Popular Democracy, entre otros, opinaron que el plan de ajuste de Cofina es una señal de lo que está por venir en el próximo plan de ajuste, y sugirieron que la movilización del pueblo y de retirados es crucial para evitarlo.
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What One Puerto Rican Activist Told Judge About Debt Restructuring Case
What One Puerto Rican Activist Told Judge About Debt Restructuring Case
Thank you for the opportunity to present our concerns today. My name is Julio López Varona. I am Director of Dignity...
Thank you for the opportunity to present our concerns today. My name is Julio López Varona. I am Director of Dignity Campaigns at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) and the coordinator of the Hedge Clippers campaign in Puerto Rico.
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Organizaciones en Florida piden se descarte acuerdo con bonistas de Cofina
Organizaciones en Florida piden se descarte acuerdo con bonistas de Cofina
“Las organizaciones que encabezan esta campaña son Diáspora en Resistencia, Alianza for Progress, la Puerto Rico...
“Las organizaciones que encabezan esta campaña son Diáspora en Resistencia, Alianza for Progress, la Puerto Rico Alliance of Florida, el Puerto Rico Leadership Council en Florida y el Center for Popular Democracy. Estas demandan una renegociación de este acuerdo, el que consideran injusto, pues supone medidas de austeridad extrema que rayan en violaciones a los derechos humanos.
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Moschino has been accused of using the code word “Serena” to refer to black shoppers
Moschino has been accused of using the code word “Serena” to refer to black shoppers
Similarly, the Center for Popular Democracy in 2015 accused Zara of using racial code words for black and Latinx...
Similarly, the Center for Popular Democracy in 2015 accused Zara of using racial code words for black and Latinx customers (which Zara denies). The advocacy group surveyed 251 Zara employees in New York City about the retailer’s practices. Poll respondents said that when the term “special order” was used at the store, employees were to find the location of the shoppers in question and follow them around. Black customers were most often described as “special orders,” according to the survey results.
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Episode 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar
Episode 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar
“Nima: Yeah. So we will shift now from the academic to the more advocacy side of this and so we will be speaking now...
“Nima: Yeah. So we will shift now from the academic to the more advocacy side of this and so we will be speaking now with Les Bernal, National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling, a broad coalition that has filed lawsuits alongside progressive groups such as the Center for Popular Democracy, United for a Fair Economy and the Public Health Advocacy Institute. Les is going to join us in just a sec. Stay with us.”
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Yes, Low Unemployment Does Raise Wages
Thankfully, Janet Yellen, who was then Fed chair, agreed with this position. (It helped that our friends with the Fed...
Thankfully, Janet Yellen, who was then Fed chair, agreed with this position. (It helped that our friends with the Fed Up Coalition were also pushing hard in this direction.) Her replacement, Jerome Powell, seems to be following the same path, more or less.
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The Badass 50: Meet the Women Who Are Changing the World
The Badass 50: Meet the Women Who Are Changing the World
25. Ana Maria Archila: Last September the sexual-violence survivor confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator on live TV...
25. Ana Maria Archila: Last September the sexual-violence survivor confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator on live TV moments before he was to vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. “In a split second I made the decision to use my voice and my story,” she says. “It forced him to grapple with the gravity of the message he’d send to women by voting to install in the Supreme Court someone accused of sexual assault.
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School Suspension Hearings: New Pro Bono Project Gives Students Representation
School Suspension Hearings: New Pro Bono Project Gives Students Representation
Throughout law school I worked with the Suspension Representation Project (SRP) as an advocate in New York City public...
Throughout law school I worked with the Suspension Representation Project (SRP) as an advocate in New York City public school suspension hearings, and am now helping to coordinate a new project at Proskauer through our partnership with SRP and The Center for Popular Democracy. This post will examine the school suspension process in New York City, and the great need for increased attention to this issue and representation for the students in these hearings.
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There Is a Real Border Crisis. A Wall Would Only Make It Worse.
There Is a Real Border Crisis. A Wall Would Only Make It Worse.
Trump’s call for a “wall” then is, as Ana María Archila, from the Center for Popular Democracy, wrote in a press...
Trump’s call for a “wall” then is, as Ana María Archila, from the Center for Popular Democracy, wrote in a press release, the “latest in a series of racist, anti-immigrant attacks that are meant to fuel hatred.”
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Seattle council members give New York a lesson on what comes with Amazon
Seattle council members give New York a lesson on what comes with Amazon
Monday's event was facilitated by labor-friendly groups Local Progress and The Center for Popular Democracy, and...
Monday's event was facilitated by labor-friendly groups Local Progress and The Center for Popular Democracy, and sponsored by Make the Road.
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