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Ady Barkan launches new campaign asking everyone to “Be A Hero”

Activist Ady Barkan, who is fighting ALS, is starting a new fight - to get people to vote. He’s asking people to “Be A...

[created] | Published by: New York Patch

Arrests Made At Protest Outside UES Home Of JPMorgan Chase Exec

Arrests Made At Protest Outside UES Home Of JPMorgan Chase Exec

Hundreds of people picketed outside of 1185 Park Ave. around 8 a.m. to deliver more than 100,000 petition signatures...

Milwaukee faces historic opportunity to transform schools. Here’s how.

Milwaukee spends a greater fraction of its general fund on policing than many other major cities. A 2017 report from...

Wisconsin Gazette | Organizing for Education Justice

Simplify Investments to Keep Them Clean

New York Times - May 11, 2014, Room for Debate: Connie Razza - Public pensions are under threat from outright fraud as...

[created] | Published by: Viable Opposition

Economic Sector Bias at the Federal Reserve

Economic Sector Bias at the Federal Reserve

In part one of this two-part posting, I looked at the gender bias at the Federal Reserve, showing how men vastly...

No indictment in Eric Garner police killing

Reports indicate that a grand jury has decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner,...

[created] | Published by: New York Daily News

Father with ALS asks Sen. Jeff Flake on flight to oppose tax bill

Father with ALS asks Sen. Jeff Flake on flight to oppose tax bill

An activist who suffers from ALS protesting the GOP tax cuts confronted Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) over his support for...

New York Daily News | Civic Engagement
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Major donors consider funding Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter

Major donors consider funding Black Lives Matter

Some of the biggest donors on the left plan to meet behind closed doors next week in Washington with leaders of the...

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Lael Brainard, a Fed governor in the political glare

Lael Brainard, a Fed governor in the political glare

In the middle of meetings of the world’s central banking elite in Wyoming’s Jackson Lake Lodge in August 2015, Lael...

Nueva York pagará abogados a algunos inmigrantes

El Nuevo Herald - July 18, 2013, by Claudia Torrens - Nueva York se prepara para dar otro paso en su tradición de ayuda...

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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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