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Veteran community organizer Wade Rathke’s new book “Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families” explains how unemployment insurance, food stamps, and tax relief are only temporary solutions to poverty and do not address more systematic problems that prevent working families from becoming financially secure. In this interview, Rathke explains this problematic reality, discusses [...]
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Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families
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Looking back on May Day
May Day or International Worker’s Day is celebrated on May 1st in most countries around the world. The holiday is less popular in the United States but no less important to immigrant activist groups nationwide who’ve begun using this day to demand equal rights for immigrant workers. May Day was first organized in 1886 by [...]
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Fighting for Affordable Healthcare in a Purple Bus
Kathie McClure is on a mission and she’s carrying it out in style. Two years ago, Kathie founded VoteHealthcare.org, to encourage thousands of people upset with our health care system to become politically active. Since this April, she’s been traveling across the country doing just that in a remodeled purple school bus. On each stop, [...]
Dear President Obama…
Immigrant rights advocacy groups are putting pressure on President Obama to reform immigration policy just three days after his presidential inauguration. The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is drafting an open letter to President Obama asking him to adopt comprehensive immigration reform. Arnoldo Garcia of NNIRR and immigrant rights groups in [...]
The Employee Free Choice Act
The Employee Free Choice Act is a controversial labor bill being discussed right now in Congress. If it passes it would protect workers’ rights by making it illegal for employers to fire workers whom they suspect support or are organizing a workplace union. The bill has been a hot topic of debate between union advocacy groups and private sector big businesses since it was first introduced on Capital Hill. We talk to Helene O’Brien of the Service Employee International Union Local 21 in Louisiana and Carol Rosenblatt of the Coalition for Labor Union Women as they explain why they have taken up the fight to pass The Employee Free Choice Act.
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community organizations are doing everything in their power to help families stay in their homes. We look at one successful organizing method implemented by the grassroots community group ACORN and how other community groups are learning from them.
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