Raleigh – North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is taking his veto of the state budget lacking in Medicaid expansion one step further, going on the offense to improve the lives of low income North Carolina families. His bold position comes after months of hard work by Down Home North Carolina and other grassroots activists to […]
People’s Action is a force for democracy and economic fairness. From family farms to big cities, from coast to coast, we’re fighting for community over greed, justice over racism, and people and planet over big corporations.
CAMPAIGNS
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HEALTH CARE
While conservative forces take a wrecking ball to our progress toward making health care available to everyone, we advance a vision of health care as a public good.
CLIMATE JUSTICE
The climate crisis has already arrived in Native lands and communities or color. We oppose the polluting and desecration of our communities by corporate greed.
IN THE NEWS
Grassroots-Led Medicare for All is “Only Getting Stronger”
WASHINGTON – Grassroots leaders are driving the Medicare for All movement. People’s Action released these statements today on the House Ways & Means committee hearing on health care proposals, including the Medicare for All Act of 2019: Kristy Fogle, emergency medicine physician assistant and founder of Maryland Progressive Healthcare Coalition: “Americans consistently put health care […]
Die-In Disrupts American Medical Association Conference
VIDEO: Activists Demand that AMA Stop Supporting the Corporate Lobbying Group that’s Trying to Kill Medicare for All CHICAGO – Jane Addams Senior Caucus, People’s Action, One Northside, The People’s Lobby and Illinois People’s Action members held a loud and dramatic die-in Saturday disrupting the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates conference at the […]
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People’s Action and our sister organization People’s Action Institute are making waves. Our work, affiliates, and leaders have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The Guardian and Rolling Stone.
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People's Action's work to make our political system work for everyday people was featured in a June 2017 segment of "People and Power," an Al Jazeera weekly documentary series. (Watch the full program on AlJazeera.com.)