Category: Blog
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The Push to Get Disney CEO Bob Iger Off Trump\’s Economic Council
People\’s Action is collecting signatures on a petition, to be delivered to Disney\’s headquarters on Tuesday, designed to persuade Iger to follow the lead of Uber\’s CEO and leave the economic advisory council.
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Two Congressmen Nail The Problem With The Jeff Sessions Makeover
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Georgia Rep. John Lewis on Wednesday made sure that the Senate and the country was not distracted by the makeover that the attorney general nominee presented to the country this week.
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The Catastrophic Oil Spill in Trump\’s Cabinet
With the nomination of Exxon-Mobil\’s CEO and an Energy Transfer Partners board member to Cabinet posts, Donald Trump has added to the swamp he pledged to clean two corporate alligators who will put the planet in peril.
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AIDS Activists to Paul Ryan: \”Your Budget Dreams Are Our Nightmare\”
Eleven AIDS activists were arrested Thursday afternoon while staging a sit-in at the office of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. They were opposing plans to dismantle the health care programs that people living with HIV depend upon.
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On the Ground In Working-Class Pennsylvania, Signs That Voters Get It
A racially-mixed neighborhood in Lancaster, Pa., contains many residents anxious to vote and in particular to record their rejection of the policies that Donald Trump would promote if he became president.
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Fighting Racism to Build Solidarity With the White Working Class
Here\’s one example of how progressives in states like Maine are working to heal the divisions of wedge politics practiced by Donald Trump and by far-right politicians across the nation.
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Amid \”Men Yelling Indistinctly\” During VP Debate, Shards Of Substance
Tuesday\’s vice-presidential debate offered moments of real contrast between the America that works for all promised by Democrat Hillary Clinton and the alt-right and tea-party policies of a Donald Trump administration.
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A Day of Action To Stop An Oil Pipeline and \”Keep It In The Ground\”
\”Day of Action\” events around the country will protest construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, while a petition drive calls for a broader halt to oil extraction.
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Flip the Trump Script: Endorse The Movement For Black Lives Platform
A script prepared for Donald Trump for an interview about race with a Detroit pastor reveals his antipathy for even acknowledging the existence of systemic racism. The Movement for Black Lives agenda offers a contrast.
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Trump\’s Immigration \’Pivot\’ and the Effort to Expose It For What It Is
Trump is trying to have it both ways: Reassure his base that he is the same candidate who promised to kick out all 11 million undocumented immigrants while offering what sounds like more rational, realistic policy.