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Progressive Movement News / September 9, 2016
News Roundup, September 9
David Rolf charts the course for the future of union organizing; DA President Gara LaMarche is cited by The Guardian for his insights on philanthropy; Heather McGhee answers a C-SPAN caller who acknowledges his own prejudices and asks how he can ...
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News from the DA / September 8, 2016
Who’s the Next Big Thing? Youth Engagement Fund’s Austin Belali
That’s according to Washington Life Magazine, not to mention his colleagues here at the DA. “This country has a long history of people extracting wealth from others, but what does it look like to use your wealth to empower ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / September 7, 2016
Building an Inclusive Economy: The Case for Early Care and Education
For decades, there has been a strong economic case to be made for early care and education. Based on longitudinal research of high-quality programs dating back to the 1960s, researchers have found that investments in high-quality care for ...
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Progressive Movement News / August 11, 2016
ColorofChange’s Rashad Robinson Personally Delivers 500,000 Petitions to DOJ
Calling for police departments that resist reform to be defunded, a coalition led by ColorofChange and including Advancement Project, BYP100 and others carried boxes full of signatures to the Department of Justice last week. If the federal ...
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Progressive Movement News / August 9, 2016
New Roundup, August 9
The New York Times profiles AFSCME head Lee Saunders; a New Yorker reporter trails a Working America canvasser for a day; Democracy in Color‘s Steve Phillips lays out the work to be done between now and election day; and more.
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Progressive Movement News / August 5, 2016
Racist Voter ID Laws Just Suffered a Series of Crushing Blows
In North Carolina last month, a lawsuit brought by Advancement Project, among others, has resulted in a federal court striking down parts of the state’s voting law, finding discriminatory intent. The same day, a federal judge ruled that ...
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Progressive Movement News / August 3, 2016
Part-Time Workers Are Barely Getting By – but “Opportunity to Work” Could Fix It
The Center for Popular Democracy is pushing pack against the trend of big corporations making low-wage positions part-time in order to avoid paying benefits and decent wages. In San Jose, they’re advancing an “Opportunity to ...
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Progressive Movement News / July 29, 2016
What Does the Political Future Hold? The Nation asks Movement Leaders
How will the political revolution be built? The Nation magazine gathered the thoughts of leading lights, including People’s Action’s George Goehl, Center for Community Change’s Deepak Bhargava, The Roosevelt Institute’s ...
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Progressive Movement News / July 15, 2016
For Attentive.ly and tinyGive, NMV Investment Pays Off
In a move that New Media Ventures’ Julie Menter writes “may be the first time in history a venture-backed tech startup with a black female founder on board has been acquired by a NASDAQ traded company,” the philanthropic ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / July 15, 2016
Working for Justice after Last Week’s Turmoil and Violence
This is the height of the political season, with the two party conventions taking place later this month. But platforms and Vice-Presidential selections aside, in a year when the electoral stakes have never been higher, there is a palpable sense ...
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