Immigration reform supporters in Central Florida ratcheted up their work engaging key decision-makers with a string of events over the Memorial Day Recess.
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Conservatives Continue Their Budget Myths While Threatening to Make Childhood Hunger a SNAP
Who crashed the economy? If one turns the pages of Paul Ryan’s spine-chilling budget one sees who conservatives like himself believe to be the biggest threats to the US Economy: Hungry children and pregnant mothers.
Organizers Gathered for Annual Alliance CORE Training
Dedicated to the struggle for justice, organizers from across the country came together for the Alliance’s annual 4-day training from May 16-19, with aims to grow, invigorate and innovate. This core training is offered to new organizers from state affiliates’ staff and volunteers, with trainings on basic organizing skills. “I’ve seen what community organizing canContinue reading “Organizers Gathered for Annual Alliance CORE Training”
Economic Growth Stalled by Wage Gaps
Last week, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve System, shared increasing concern over the nations’ wealth gap. Reports by the Huffington post relay, “In my view, the large and increasing amount of inequality in income and wealth, which has been an ongoing development for decades, may have exacerbated the crisis.”
Laundering The Message
How big insurance bought and paid for the “small business” attack on Obamacare Last week, the National Journal reported that in 2011, the health insurance industry lobby group AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) quietly funneled $850,000 to the NFIB – the self-proclaimed “Voice of Small Business” – as part of a campaign to repealContinue reading “Laundering The Message”
Homeowners Protest Dept. of Justice Failure to Prosecute Wall Street Crimes
17 Homeowners Arrested On Monday, Alliance members from Colorado Progressive Coalition and Washington CAN! joined over 500 homeowners for a day of action targeting the Department of Justice for its continued failure to prosecute Wall Street banks and their executives for major financial crimes. In March, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate JudiciaryContinue reading “Homeowners Protest Dept. of Justice Failure to Prosecute Wall Street Crimes”
Foreclosure Crisis
PRESS Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 16, 2013
National Report Released on Racial Inequity in Foreclosure Crisis
American homeowners continued to lose a great deal of wealth – $192.6 billion – due to the foreclosure crisis in 2012, and those losses had a disproportionate impact on people of color.
May Day Immigration Actions Sent Clear Message to Congress
Last Wednesday, the nation celebrated May Day, and for the seventh consecutive year immigrant rights and immigration reform were the focus. Immigration Reform has taken on new life as the Senate, the President and the people of this country take bold steps toward fixing a broken immigration system. Our nation cannot keep 11 million peopleContinue reading “May Day Immigration Actions Sent Clear Message to Congress”
New Bottom Line’s 16-Month Campaign Takes Giant Step Forward To Removing:
“The biggest roadblock to our country’s economic recovery” Re-Posted with permission from The New Bottom Line Since early 2012, New Bottom Line has driven the campaign to get President Obama to dump Ed DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Today, the organization celebrated the news that the president finally made a nominationContinue reading “New Bottom Line’s 16-Month Campaign Takes Giant Step Forward To Removing:”