Every month People’s Action shares the latest victories,
campaigns and events from our member groups
No kings. No ICE raids. No troops in the streets. No illegal detentions or family separations. No cuts to lifesaving medical care. No wars.
We know what we don’t want to happen, because we see it all around us. We have a president who terrorizes our neighbors, orders troops to occupy our second-largest city, and demands a $45-million-dollar parade for his birthday, all while he plans cuts to health care and food to line his own pockets.
None of this is right. But if this is not what we want to see happen, what do we want?
Even as this administration ramps up its attacks and authoritarian tactics against us, People’s Action members are coming together to show us what they want, in concrete and courageous ways.
We practice solidarity so our neighbors stay safe, and defend our right to demand good government, good jobs, and hope for the future. That’s what democracy means – or at least should mean. And we’re not going to give it up quietly.
In Wisconsin, Citizen Action has been holding the line, demanding Governor Evers refuse any efforts by the state’s legislature to deny medical care while they slash funding for child care and special education.
In Alamance County, North Carolina, Down Home members brought together an unprecedented coalition to defend emergency services, libraries and teacher salaries.
The New Jersey Resources Project and Maine People’s Resource Center are defeating the lies about clean energy spread by the fossil fuel industry the old-fashioned way: by talking to their neighbors. Tens of thousands of them.
And in New York City, as a democratic socialist endorsed by VOCAL-NY, Community Voices Heard Power and Citizen Action of New York won the mayoral primary, the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition is celebrating their historic victory, after years of organizing, to turn the Kingsbridge Armory into five acres of affordable homes, small businesses and good jobs with over $220 million in dedicated funding.
This is people power, up close and personal. This is your power to dream, and your power to build. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not real, that you don’t have it, or that you can’t use it.
When those in power strip away our rights and try to silence us, they want to limit our imagination: our ability to create a world that can be more fair, more joyous and more hopeful than the one they want us to quietly accept.
What can we do to meet this moment? Organize. Because we know that only organized people can defeat the rise of authoritarianism and restore the promise of democracy.
Don’t let anyone delay or deny your freedom. It belongs to you.
in solidarity,
Amanda Weaver
Lead Story
NWBCCC Secures Historic Role in Kingsbridge Armory Development
The Northwest Bronx Citizens and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) has taken a giant step towards good jobs, good homes and hope for the future in New York City through a historic agreement to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory into a 570,000-square-foot hub for local business development and housing with strong environmental standards and community ownership. Read more
Organizing Stories
CAWI Urges Evers to ‘Hold the Line’ to Defend Education, Health & Child Care in Budget
Citizen Action of Wisconsin is urging Governor Evers to stand up to GOP efforts to deny health care and slash funding for child care and special education in the state. Read more
PLAN Celebrates Legislative Wins for Workers, Students and Tenants
The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) is celebrating multiple victories in this year’s legislative session for tenants, workers and students. Read more
NJRP, Maine People’s Resource Center Deep Canvass to Build Support for Offshore Wind
The New Jersey Resources Project, which has long fought to restore the Jersey Shore from the ravages of Hurricane Sandy, joined forces with the Maine People’s Resource Center, the Climate Advocacy Lab, New Conversations Initiative and People’s Action Institute to rally support for wind power through deep canvassing. Read more
West Virginia Citizen Action Group Stands Up for No Kings, Juneteenth
West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WVCAG) members turned out all across the state to make their voices heard as part of No Kings, a national day of action, and on Juneteenth, even after the state’s governor tried to erase the federal holiday, a celebration of freedom for African Americans. Read more
Maine People’s Alliance Defends Family Leave, Rural Hospitals from Cuts
The Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) has successfully defended the state’s new paid family and medical leave program, and is challenging U.S. Senator Susan Collins to follow through on her concerns about how proposed cuts to Medicaid will affect rural hospitals, seniors and low-income families. Read more
DHNC Fights for Education, Libraries, and Critical Services in Alamance and Wins!
Down Home North Carolina is celebrating after they defeated efforts by the Alamance County Board of Commissioners to strip $12 million in funding from domestic violence and emergency response services, libraries and teacher salaries. Read more
Recent Media
READ: “Unhoused, and Then Displaced, Like Me”
Mandy Bryant, who has been forced to live in the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon for six years, tells her harrowing story of how the National Forest Service evicted her and 200 other homeless people, a result of the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision one year ago, which made it easier to criminalize and charge penalties to people who have no place to go.
WATCH: Housing Not Handcuffs Livestream
U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), members and experts from VOCAL-US, People’s Action Institute, the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) and the National Homelessness Law Center (NHLC) talk about what you can do right now to join the fight to ensure homes and dignity for all, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass ruling.
WATCH: Medicaid Cuts Kill Livestream
U.S. Representative Delia Ramirez (D-IL3) joins Join People’s Action Institute members from across the country to talk about the GOP’s plans to cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, SNAP and other lifesaving services, and what you can do—right now—to defend our health care and stop the largest wealth transfer from working people to the wealthy in history, before it’s too late!
