Tag: grassroots movement

On the campaign trail, Gillum called for Medicare for all, abolishing ICE, reforming the criminal justice system, repealing Florida’s “stand your ground” law and increasing corporate taxes.

Democrats voted to vastly reduce the power of superdelegates in choosing the party’s presidential nominee.

Leadership must come from the grassroots. That’s how superdelegates met their long-overdue demise.

We must stand for the protection of the Arctic Refuge and ask our representatives to do the same.

An interview with Norman Solomon

“When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.”

Can the emergence of non-traditional candidates help revive a faltering Democratic Party that is facing its lowest approval rating in nearly a quarter century?

A grassroots movement in Iowa is an uplifting example of organized people power in action taking back democracy. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is fighting the avarice and arrogance of big-money corporations.

Democracy is never a given—it has to be won through constant struggle against the elites. But one coalition called Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is uniting and empowering people to push back against big-money corporations.

President Barack Obama and the Republicans are united when it comes to so-called free-trade agreements. While Obama has been negotiating the agreements, which increase corporate power, grass-roots activists are organizing against the TPP.