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Juan González On De Blasio's NY: The Mayor Has Not Confronted The Affordable Housing Crisis

For nearly 30 years, Juan González used his column in the New York Daily News to expose massive corruption scandals and further the cause of social justice. He retired his column last year, but...

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Schedules that Work Act Reintroduced Amidst National Groundswell for a Fair Workweek

*For Planning Purposes Only*

Contact: Ricardo A. Ramírez, rramirez@populardemocracy.org, 202-464-7376 

Congress will reintroduce...

Restoring a Fair Workweek

Latinos Presentan La Mayor Tasa De Mortalidad Por Accidentes En Industria De La Construcción De Nueva York

Latinos Post – October 25, 2013 -

La población hispana e inmigrante que es empleada en el sector de la construcción del estado de Nueva York es el grupo étnico más vulnerable a...

Labor Unions Will Be Smaller After Supreme Court Decision, but Maybe Not Weaker

With the Supreme Court striking down laws that require government workers to pay union fees, one thing is clear: Most public-sector unions in more than 20 states with such laws are going to get...

The New York Times | Forced Arbitration: A Corporate Attack on Workers’ Rights

Protesters roll loudly through Senate office buildings, 155 arrested

The chants of vocal activists echoed through the hallways of Senate office buildings Wednesday, as hundreds staged sit-ins to protest the Republican health care plan that's already on shaky ground...

CNN | Civic Engagement

300+ Arrested in Mass Civil Disobedience Protests at the Nation's Capitol

By Greenpeace

In the final day of a record-setting week of civil disobedience at the Capitol, more than 300 people were arrested Monday as they demanded democracy reforms.

Yesterday'...

OpEdNews | Organizing for Environmental Justice, Fighting for an Inclusive Democracy

Nina Tassler & Denise DiNovi Launch Indie Studio PatMa Focused On Diverse Voices

PatMa Prods. has forged strategic partnerships with several organizations with shared common values, including the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Center for Popular Democracy, and...

Deadline | Civic Engagement
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JPMorgan boss: 'Trump is our pilot' even when we disagree

JPMorgan boss: 'Trump is our pilot' even when we disagree

Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and one of the few big-bank bosses to keep his job after the Great Recession, will keep advising President Trump even when...

The Philidelphia Inquirer | Civic Engagement

REPORT: Milwaukee School Discipline Guidelines Disproportionately Target Black and Latinx Students

Despite costing millions of dollars, punitive student discipline strategies implemented by the Milwaukee Police Department(MPD) over the last decade have failed to improve school safety in the...

Colorlines | Organizing for Education Justice

National educators tour Kentucky Family Resource and Youth Service Centers

National education leaders are taking notice of the impact the Kentucky Family Resource and Youth Service Centers (FRYSC) are making across the commonwealth. 

An impressive list of these...

KFVS12.com | Organizing for Education Justice

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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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