FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18 March 2020Contact: Derrick Crowe, [email protected], 512.516.5067 cell WASHINGTON, D.C.—People’s Action today released a memorandum outlining the federal action required to ensure frontline communities have their housing needs met during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The coronavirus pandemic is a public health crisis that will affect poor and working class community members the most,” […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—People’s Action released the following statement from Director of Movement Politics Ryan Greenwood in response to reports that Joe Biden would consider JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Bank of America’s Anne Finucane, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for senior economic posts in a Biden administration. “Joe Biden wants to hand our economy […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—People’s Action cheered today’s decision by the Working Families Party to endorse Bernie Sanders for president. “The multiracial working class is united behind Bernie Sanders,” said Rosemary Rivera, co-director of People’s Action organization Citizen Action of New York. “The Working Families Party has leveraged their power to put progressives in office all over the […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 5 March 2020Contact: Derrick Crowe, 512.516.5067, [email protected] WASHINGTON, D.C.—People’s Action released the following statement in response to news that Sen. Elizabeth Warren would suspend her campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. "Senator Warren ran a principled, historic race for the Democratic nomination, speaking to the needs of the multiracial working class and […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 29 Feb. 2020 SELMA, ALA.—Hometown Action, part of the People’s Action national network of grassroots groups, will join The Ordinary People Society (TOPS) in a Backwards March across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, March 1 at 2:30 p.m. to demand the restoration of voting rights for incarcerated and formerly […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’ 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 […]
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 […]
