The influential health care interest group cut ties with the coalition after months of pressure from grassroots health care activists Contact: Connie Huynh, 213.304.7267 [email protected] CHICAGO – In response to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) acknowledgement that it has left the Partnership for America’s Healthcare Future, a corporate lobbying group fighting universal single-payer health care, […]
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.
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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.
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People’s Action Finds a Permanent Home for its National Headquarters in Chicago
CHICAGO – People’s Action is heading toward 50 years of history in Chicago, with roots that reach back to the fearless and passionate community organizing of Gale Cincotta and Shel Trapp in the early 1970s. And for the first time in all those years, People’s Action won’t be renters. The national progressive organization has bought […]
North Carolina’s Governor Stands With Working Families on Health Care – Vetoes State Budget
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 […]
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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.)