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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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Progressive Movement News / July 14, 2016
Roosevelt Institute Launches 501(c)(4)
President Felicia Wong announced the debut of Roosevelt Forward earlier today, writing that it “expands our reach and allows us to have a greater voice in the economic and social debates happening in the lead-up to Election Day. The Roosevelt ...
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Progressive Movement News / July 14, 2016
In a Week of Turmoil, CPD Brought 1,500 Community Organizers Together.
The People’s Convention in Pittsburgh last week, organized by the Center for Popular Democracy, united activists working toward economic and environmental justice, LGBT rights, fair wages, immigration reform, and racial equality. Beginning just ...
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Progressive Movement News / July 13, 2016
News Roundup, July 13
The Economic Policy Institute’s trade research expert fires back after the Donald Trump campaign distorts his research for their own ends; the president of think tank Demos talks about institutional racism with Ezra Klein; and two Brennan ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 27, 2016
For Immigrant Families, Supreme Court Denies Needed Relief
The divided Court’s ruling last week in U.S. v. Texas froze President Barack Obama’s signature immigration reform program in place. The 4-4 tie allowed a lower court’s injunction halting implementation of Deferred Action for ...
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