Through canvasses, phone banks, campus organizing and digital organizing, groups announce the largest independent mobilizing commitment in 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Four days before the Iowa Caucuses, the most powerful organizing networks that have endorsed Bernie Sanders are coming together to announce a joint campaign to bolster his candidacy. The campaign, called People Power for […]
People's Action Endorses Bernie Sanders for President
For Immediate Release December 19, 2019 Contact: Derrick Crowe, (512) 516-5067, [email protected] WASHINGTON, D.C. – People’s Action today announced that it endorses Bernie Sanders for president in 2020. People’s Action is one of the largest multiracial people’s organizations in the country made up of 40 member organizations in 30 states and representing more than a […]
Oct. 13 New Hampshire Stop for People’s Presidential Forum Series Canceled
For Immediate Release October 9, 2019 Contact: Derrick Crowe, (512) 516-5067 [email protected] CHICAGO – People’s Action today announced the cancellation of its October 13 People's Presidential Forum stop in New Hampshire. "As is often the case when scheduling multiple national candidates, not enough candidates could make this date work to execute the event,” People’s Action […]
Sanders Adopts People’s Action’s ‘Homes Guarantee’ Policies in Newly Released Housing Plan
Sanders’ plan draws on many aspects of the housing justice policy package released by grassroots organizers on September 5 For Immediate Release September 18, 2019 Contact: Tara Raghuveer, (913) 593-7032 [email protected] CHICAGO – On Wednesday, 2020 Presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a housing policy plan that incorporates much of the framework […]
People’s Action Unveils Plan to Win a National Homes Guarantee
For Immediate Release September 5, 2019 Contact: Tara Raghuveer, (913) 593-7032 [email protected] CHICAGO – After years of organizing, grassroots leaders from the People’s Action network released their vision for a national Homes Guarantee policy on Thursday. The plan, summarized in a briefing book available for download online, outlines a package of structural reforms that will […]
People’s Action Members Take to Streets to Demand Lower Drug Prices In National Day Of Action
For Immediate Release August 19, 2019 Contact: Connie Huynh, (213) 304-7267, [email protected] CHICAGO – From New York to Wisconsin, Connecticut and West Virginia, People’s Action members will rally across the country on August 20th to demand lower prices for lifesaving prescription drugs. “Unprecedented prices have severely limited access to the Hepatitis C cure,” said Clifton […]
People’s Action Celebrates Victory as American Medical Association Pulls Out of Anti-Medicare for All Coalition
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 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 […]
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 […]