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Progressive Movement News / June 23, 2016
News Roundup, June 23
Civil rights leaders and economists unite; Nick Hanauer slams House Speaker Paul Ryan for weak grasp of middle-class economics; Hillary Clinton’s LGBTQ bona fides are explored; and more.
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Progressive Movement News / June 23, 2016
At Common Cause, New Leadership Steps Up
The good-government watchdog group with offices in 35 states has announced Karen Hobert Flynn as its tenth President. She brings 30 years of experience as a democracy reform activist, many of them with Common Cause and state affiliates. She ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 22, 2016
ProgressNow Founder to Head Social Change Firm Fenton
Michael Huttner, who started ProgressNow in 2003 and later founded political consultancy The Huttner Group, has been named CEO of Fenton Communications. Fenton, which bills itself as a “social change firm,” was established “to advance human ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 1, 2016
CPD Gala Highlights: Mestrich on a Living Wage; Warren Hits Trump Hard
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s excoriation of Republican nominee Donald Trump at the Center for Popular Democracy‘s gala last week drew big headlines – she blasted him as a “small, insecure money-grubber” rooting for American ...
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Progressive Movement News / May 17, 2016
Advancement Project Co-Founder Steps Down, and Judith Browne Dianis Steps Up
Penda Hair is departing to focus on representing the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP in its ongoing voting rights case. Judith Browne Dianis, who has served as Co-Founder and Co-Director alongside Hair, will serve as sole executive ...
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Progressive Movement News / May 17, 2016
Issue One Debuts Resource for Reporters, Advocates that Puts Right-Wing Voices Up Front
“Right on the Money” argues that limiting the corrosive influence of money in politics doesn’t have to be a partisan issue – it’s “a cause that everyone from Bernie Sanders to Barry Goldwater has supported,” ...
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Progressive Movement News / May 17, 2016
Rolling Stone Names DA-Linked Progressive “Young Americans Shaping 2016”
Filing them under “millennials working to overhaul America’s rotten political structure,” the magazine included staff from Black Civic Engagement Fund grantee Black Youth Project 100, the DA-recommended group Center for ...
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Progressive Movement News / May 16, 2016
News Roundup, May 16
The latest on the work of progressives includes recognition of President Obama’s immigration orders, new research on the positive impact of minimum wage hikes, The New York Times reporting on women’s rising influence in political ...
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Progressive Movement News / May 2, 2016
For National Reentry Week, PICO and NELP Urge Federal Expansion of “Ban the Box”
PICO National Network and the National Employment Law Project, in partnership with the AFL-CIO and hundreds of other organizations, pushed President Obama last week to extend “ban the box” to federal contractors. The policy would ...
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Progressive Movement News / April 29, 2016
In VA, Voting Rights Restored for Thousands
Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order late last week that re-enfranchised more than 200,000 Virginians who had completed sentences for a felony conviction in the past. Rights restoration has been a major focus of key DA ...
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