News Archives: April, 2018
Today in Grassroots Funding Week – How to End Poverty
As the country’s highest earners look towards new tax breaks in 2018, poverty disempowers a vast population in the U.S. Economic security and advancement – from employment opportunities to housing, […]
Published on April 26, 2018Today in Grassroots Funding Week – More than #MeToo
When Anita Hill testified against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, citing sexual harassment, she faced an all-male, all-white Congressional panel. It was 1991, and the #MeToo movement would be decades […]
Published on April 25, 2018Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Youth Are Organizing
After the horrors in Parkland, Florida, students catalyzed youth and adult supporters with the #NeverAgain movement, and they haven’t gone away. Like the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that spawned the […]
Published on April 24, 2018Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Immigrants are Holding the Line
The unimaginable is happening. Mass arrests, mothers torn from their children, fathers incommunicado, people terrified. The mean-spirited, jingoistic campaign promise to build a wall has shape-shifted into ICE round-ups in […]
Published on April 23, 2018Three Stories, Every Day This Week
Here’s the schedule: Monday, April 23 Holding the Line for Immigrant Justice Tuesday, April 24 Youth are Organizing Wednesday, April 25 #MeToo and More Thursday, April 26 Economic Justice: The […]
Published on April 21, 2018