We can stop preventable overdose deaths.
The Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act enables health care practitioners to prescribe lifesaving treatments for opioid use disorder.
Join us to demand Congress move the MAT Act over the finish line, to save lives NOW!
“When voters and candidates take organizing seriously, we win. And when we put forward a hopeful, bold vision, we can defend our freedoms. People are ready: The time is ripe to organize.”
People’s Action congratulates the newly elected local, county, state and federal #PplsSlate officials who won public office in the 2022 election.
People’s Action and our member groups knocked on 1 million doors and made 2 million calls to voters in this election cycle.
The People’s Slate is part of a People’s Action strategy to build people power and elect movement champions who will cogovern with our working-class members.
These newly elected officials join the hundreds of People’s Action-endorsed candidates who are already serving in office at every level of government.
Learn More About Deep Canvassing
People’s Action’s deep canvassing program is featured in the new book by Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders, as one of the most critical interventions that the pro-democracy movement can make. You can start right now!
Tell Candidates and Officials Not to Take Corporate Money!
Big financial, fossil fuel and healthcare corporations spend millions to buy off elected officials and candidates.
Do you want your representatives to work for you, not for big money?
Tell them to sign the People’s Pledge RIGHT NOW!
People’s Action: Thank You, Speaker Pelosi
WASHINGTON, D.C.–People’s Action today issued the following statement from Executive Director Sulma Arias, congratulating Nancy Pelosi on her historic tenure as Speaker of the House.
Homes Guarantee Wraps Tenant Reckoning With White House Meeting, Rally, and Congressional Briefing
100 Rent-Burdened Tenants Demand Meeting with Biden and Executive Order to Regulate Rent Contact: Johanna Kichton, [email protected], 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Homes Guarantee campaign
Health Care Advocates Risk Arrest to Takeover Elevance Health HQ & Demand Care
Elevance Denies Medically Necessary Care; Profited $2.3 Billion in Grotesque Q3 Earnings Report INDIANAPOLIS, IN–70 health care advocates with People’s Action’s Care Over Cost campaign
People’s Action builds the power of poor and working people in urban, rural, and suburban areas to win change through issue fights and elections. We are a national network of 38 state and local grassroots power-building organizations in 28 states–united in the work of building a bigger “we.”
Peoples Action and special guests lay out our plan to win progressive power and build a bigger we in 2022!
We’ll hear from our network leaders on the ground in Wisconsin, New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, as well as from Wisc. Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, Ill. State Rep. Delia Ramirez, Brittany Ramos DeBarros, and our very own executive director Sulma Arias!
Pass the MAT Act NOW
The Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act or MAT Act would help to remove the barriers that prevent health care practitioners from being able to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder.
The White House Must Ensure Tenant's Rights
The Biden administration, following the leadership of people who have been impacted by decades of failed or lacking housing policy, must take swift action to enshrine federal protections for tenants.
People's Action Welcomes Sulma Arias, New Executive Director
People’s Action and People’s Action Institute welcome Sulma Arias as our new executive director. Sulma is a national leader in the fight for immigrant and worker justice. Welcome, Sulma!
People's Action, Deep Canvassing Featured in The Washington Post
"Maxmin didn't just talk to voters; she sought to understand them. People's Action calls this approach 'deep canvassing,' and found that it helped decrease Trump's margins where implemented in key battleground states."
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Press Releases
- People’s Action: Thank You, Speaker Pelosi November 18, 2022
- Homes Guarantee Wraps Tenant Reckoning With White House Meeting, Rally, and Congressional Briefing November 17, 2022
- Health Care Advocates Risk Arrest to Takeover Elevance Health HQ & Demand Care November 14, 2022
- Homes Guarantee Campaign Demands Federal Action on Rents; Brings 100 Tenants to DC to Present President Biden With Rent Executive Order November 14, 2022
- People’s Action Demands Transparency and Justice in New Letter to Elevance Health November 11, 2022