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Co-Governance and Participatory Democracy in Action Map
As we come together in these perilous times, here are some powerful examples of community and government working together to build power and fight for our rights through co-governance strategies. You can learn more about these examples in this interactive map. …
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Listen: The Workers Bill of Rights With Britain Forsyth & Nadiyah Muhammad of Step Up Louisiana
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From Innovations to Ecosystems: Highlights from the Remixing Democracy Webinar
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What’s Next After The Elections?
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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?
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Root Causes of Housing and Land Injustice
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Watch: Populist Threats: Building Democratic Resilience with Participatory Communities
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Read DSC Decodes: Project 2025 and the Perils of Inadequate Education Reforms
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National Week of Action Against School Pushout
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Listen: Grassroots Democracy with Molly Martin & Erika L. Anthony
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Two Twin Cities Housing Developers Commit to Historic Program Aimed at Ending Exploitation in the Non-union Construction Sector
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Join the Dignity in Schools Week of Action Kickoff Event!
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We’re Hiring! Operations and Membership Coordinator
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Shareholders Call on Nike to #PayYourWorkers, Commit to WSR
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New Video: What is Co-Governance?
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Seattle Is Walking Back Its Promises on Community-Led Anti-Displacement. Is Your City Next?
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Listen: Puerto Rico & Hawai’i: Building Power with Energy Democracy. Featuring Keani Rawlins-Fernandez, Ruth Santiago, Todd Yamashita, & Niki Franco
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Jamie Tyberg has joined Partners for Dignity & Rights as our New Director of Development
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End of School Year Wrap Up From the Dignity in Schools Campaign
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Press Release: The People Saved RJ and Mental Health Access – Mayor Thwarts Expansion
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Chiquita Ruling Exposes Failure of Corporate Self-Regulation
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Listen: Changing the World Through Abolition: Manju Rajendran of Durham Beyond Policing
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Listen: Behind the organizing to Stop Cop City, with Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders
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Hiring: Senior Director of Development
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Join the May Day Call for International Workers’ Rights!
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11 Lessons From 11 Years After the Rana Plaza Disaster
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Celebrating Women Leaders in Worker’s Rights: Luisa Moreno & Veronica Mendez Moore
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Celebrating Women’s History Month with DSC’s Women Leaders!
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Watch: Puerto Rico & Hawaii: Building Power with Energy Democracy
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Read: A New Tool to Take on Predatory Landlords and Fight Evictions
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Why Fair Trade Produce Labels Are Bogus
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Listen: A World Without Police: Featuring Geo Maher, Andrew Hairston, & Tafari Melisizwe
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Pursuing Co-Governance in Chicago
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Partners for Dignity & Rights Calls for an Immediate Ceasefire and an End to the Occupation
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Majelia Ampadu has joined Partners for Dignity & Rights as our New Development Coordinator
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Listen: Cooperatives Challenging Capitalism: Tamara Prosper and Tamah Yisrael of Cooperation New Orleans
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Watch: Governing Power: Movement Strategies in the US and the Global South
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Niki Franco has Joined Partners for Dignity & Rights as our Organizing and Partnerships Director
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Hiring: Interim Communications Consultant for Dignity in Schools Campaign
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Listen: Our Struggle is to Indigenize: Judith Le Blanc of Native Organizers Alliance on The Next World Podcast
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Listen: Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools: With Janice Harper, Kameisha Smith, Katie Coates & Tafari Melisizwe
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Sign the Petition to Support a New Social Contract
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Listen: Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy Podcast
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Join Partners for Dignity & Rights at The 22nd Century Conference
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Statement Against The Criminalization of Solidarity
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Article: The Dirty Little Secret—Rising Property Values Are Incompatible with Affordability
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Hiring: Development Coordinator, Partners for Dignity & Rights
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Article: How to Build Multiracial Democracy at the Local Level
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Listen: Rukia Lumumba from the People’s Advocacy Institute, Jackson, Mississippi
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Article: Building Bottom-Up Democracy Through Co-Governance
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Job Announcement: Organizing and Partnerships Director
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Watch: “Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy” Report Launch and Webinar
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Acknowledgements
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: In Conclusion
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Co-Governance and Participatory Democracy in Action
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Worker Powered Co-Enforcement in the Bay Area
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Restorative Practice in Paterson, NJ
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: People’s Assemblies in Jackson, MS
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Introduction
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Executive Summary
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Sarah Newell of WSRN Discusses Corporate vs. Worker-driven Social Responsibility
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Job Announcement: Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York Membership and Campaign Director
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The Year in Worker-driven Social Responsibility
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Dairy Workers Call on Hannafords for Justice
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Worker-driven Social Responsibility Model Adopted by More Workers and Industries
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Dignity in Schools Week of Action
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Listen: Black Land and Black Liberation with Njera Keith and Kristina Brown of 400+1
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Listen: Seventeen Years After Hurricane Katrina, Still Organizing for Education Justice
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Listen: Art and Abolition With Bryonn Bain, Author of Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape
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Watch: From the Ground Up: Community Centered Policies to Scale Equitable Development – From our New Social Contract Webinar Series
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Listen: Food Justice and Black Liberation on The Next World Podcast
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Victory: Victoria’s Secret pays $8.3 million dollars in wage theft settlement
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Advancing Housing Justice: Three Key Steps
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Our Response to the Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade
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Dignity in Schools Statement on the Killings in Uvalde, TX
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Grief, Rage and Resistance: Our Statement on the Killings in Buffalo
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Video: Rob Robinson on Panel on Poverty and Human Rights
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New Social Contract Webinar Series: Cultivating Food Justice
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A New Investment in Our Future
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Solidarity with the Shackdwellers Movement in South Africa
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On International Women’s Day 2022, We Join With Women on the Front Lines
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The American Prospect on Put People First! PA’s Public Advocate Campaign
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Remembering Paul Farmer
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Our Work for Economic Democracy
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New Social Contract Webinar Series: Privatization or Economic Democracy?
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Jessica Chaves Tavares has joined Dignity in Schools Campaign as National Field Organizer
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Announcing our New Co-Executive Director!
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Watch: Partners for Dignity & Rights Co-Founders in Dignity in Schools Discussion
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Dignity in Schools Campaign in New Book
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Watch: Organizing for Victory: Fighting for Healthcare for All in New York
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The Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts
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WATCH: Affordable for Whom?: An Online Summit on Community Controlled, Deeply Affordable Housing
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Watch: How do we invest in our communities?
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Democratizing Workers’ Compensation: Our Final Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter
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Labor and Community Organizations Call on Health Care Task Force to Prioritize Human Rights
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We Must Fight Privatization of Medicare and Medicaid to Win Universal Health Care
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New Video: The Billionaires Exploiting Garment Workers
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Affordable for Whom?: An Online Summit on Community Controlled, Deeply Affordable Housing
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Letter to Congress: It’s time to Expand and Improve Medicare
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Job Announcement: Co-Executive Director
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Latest on Partners for Dignity & Rights in the Media
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New Video: Pay Women Garment Workers a Living Wage!
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Partners for Dignity & Rights Announces Co-Executive Director Leadership Transition
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June 5 Rally & March for Police-Free Schools
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Partners for Dignity & Rights Joins 48 Organizations in Call on Biden to Include Bold Drug Pricing Reforms in the American Families Plan, Use the Savings to Expand Medicare
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Listen: Ben Palmquist, Program Director, Health Care and Economic Democracy, on Citations Needed Podcast
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Is Conviction Justice?
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Listen: Liberating Housing on The Next World Podcast
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Rising Against Anti-Asian Discrimination and Violence
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Don’t Let Hospital CEO’s Shut Down Care
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How the U.S. Health Care System is and isn’t Working
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Beyond Survival One Year Later
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New Video: Respect Garment Workers!
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Democratizing Governance to Advance Health Justice and Economic Democracy
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Interview on Medicare for All and health justice narratives on Oregon community radio
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The Struggle for Healthcare Justice: It’s Movement Time
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How to Change the Media Discourse to Win Medicare for All and a Multiracial Democracy
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Health, Racial Disparities, and Economic Justice
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The COVID Jungle: Chicagoland’s Essential Food Workers and the Need for Vaccination Priority
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New Episode of The Next World Podcast: M. Adams of Freedom Inc
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Honoring Our Power – 15 Years of Dignity and Rights
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Believe in NYC Schools: Safety Without Policing
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New Episode of The Next World Podcast: Sterling Johnson and Jenn Bennetch of Philadelphia Housing Action
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Whatever Happens, We are Ready to Keep Fighting
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Watch: It’s Time for a New Social Contract
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The Stakes Could Not Be Higher
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Hiring: Director of Development, Partners for Dignity & Rights
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#PoliceFreeSchools Learning Institute Schedule: Join Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY Members for a Week of Radical Learning
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Join the National Week of Action Against School Pushout: October 3 – 11, 2020
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Request For Qualifications: Research Consultant on Deeply Affordable Housing Development
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Paid Internship with Partners for Dignity & Rights: Fair Development Research
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The Power of Labor
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We are Excited to Announce our new Co-Executive Director!
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UN expert urges a ban on evictions during COVID-19 pandemic
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Housing Now! Listen to the Latest Episode of The Next World Podcast
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Join us in Saying No to Austerity and Police Budgets, Yes to Democracy and Human Needs
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Watch: Honoring Our Power: Community Solutions in a Time of Crisis
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How to Make This Year’s Eviction Crisis Our Last
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Can We Learn from COVID-19?
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Solidarity Statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo (South African Shack Dwellers Movement) to Black Lives Matter
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Defund Police, Invest in Transformative Justice
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To Fight COVID–19, We Need to Build Worker Power and Worker Safety
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Addressing Our Real Deficits: Democracy and Human Rights
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Building Worker Power into Standard Setting, Monitoring and Enforcement
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Watch: Naomi Klein, Maurice Mitchell, and Cathy Albisa on a New Social Contract
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No Turning Back: How the Pandemic Opens the Door to a New Economy for People and the Planet
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The U.S. Has Eliminated Thousands of Hospital Beds in the Last Ten Years, Exacerbating the Current COVID-19 Crisis
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From Free CovidCare to Medicare For All
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A Goodbye from Cathy Albisa, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Partners for Dignity & Rights
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Reports from the Frontlines of COVID-19
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Calls to Action in Response to COVID-19
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Watch: New Hampshire People’s Issues Forum Supports A New Social Contract for Workers
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Our Statement on COVID-19/Coronavirus and Human Rights
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Single-Payer Health Care Did Not Fail in Vermont
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[Closed] Part-Time Health Care Justice Research Assistant
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Watch: Senator Bernie Sanders endorses A New Social Contract for Workers
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Listen: Do We Need a New Social Contract?
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New Social Contract Tour Coming to a City Near You
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National Economic and Social Rights Initiative is now Partners for Dignity & Rights
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Black Lives Matter at School Week, Feb. 3-7, 2020
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Watch this new video from the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network
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Vermont Workers’ Center Medicaid Assembly at the State House
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Jobs for All: A Manifesto
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Building Dignity and Respect
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Commemorating Human Rights Day
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Save The Date for our 15th Anniversary Celebration
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Commemorating Indigenous Resistance
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Senator Bernie Sanders Endorses New Social Contract for Workers
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Watch: Philly Organizers on Building a New Social Contract
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Building Worker Power: Moving Beyond Standards to Enforcement
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Join Dignity in Schools Campaign for 10th National Week of Action Against School Pushout
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Why the Argument that Medicare for All Will Curtail “Freedom” Is So, So Wrong
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Take Action! Make Big Polluters Pay to Address the Climate Crisis They’ve Caused
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The Future Belongs to Globalists
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A New Social Contract for Workers – See Report
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Expect More Health Industry Spin At Thursday’s Democratic Debate
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Partners for Dignity & Rights Director Cathy Albisa to Receive Human Rights Award
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New Social Contract Tour
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National Affordable for Whom Conference – 2019
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Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2019
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Economists endorsed a unified public insurance system, not a fractured multi-payer insurance system
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Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on how the health insurance industry warped media coverage
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REPORT: Media Repeating Insurance Industry Talking Points
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More than 250 economists sign letter backing Medicare for All
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Responding to Rising Tide of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
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Leader of Brazil Landless Workers’ Movement Visits NYC
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Our Statement on Recent Arsons in the U.S. South
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Save The Date for Grounding Reparations: Community Land Ownership & Racial Equity
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The Nation on “The Human-Rights Agenda Underlying the 2019 Medicare for All Bill”
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Our statement on attacks on Muslims in New Zealand
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Our Statement on International Women’s Day
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Common Dreams: Jayapal’s Medicare for All Bill ‘Sets a New Standard’ for Guaranteeing Healthcare as a Human Right
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New Release: Human Rights Assessment of Medicare for All Act of 2019
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What is the national health care debate really about? Splinter breaks it down.
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Protest expected Wednesday afternoon outside county government building against UPMC Pinnacle closure
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Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Winter 2019
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The next six months in the politics of universal health care
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Punitive Policies Target Low-Wage Workers, Create Barriers to Workers’ Comp
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Workers’ comp news from around the country
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Put People First! Pennsylvania Members Fight to Keep Hospital Open
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Medicaid work requirements don’t work. Maine was right to reject them.
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On MLK Day: Add Your Name Supporting A New Social Contract
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Mainers organize to defend Medicaid
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Press Release: Students of Color and Community Organizations From Across the Country Respond to Federal Commission on School Safety Findings
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We Support Love Knows No Borders: A Moral Call for Migrant Justice
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Courage and Commitment on Human Rights Day
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Partners for Dignity & Rights Joins With People’s Demands for Climate Justice
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What do the midterm election results mean for health care?
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Our Statement on the Killings at the Tree of Life * Or L’Simcha Congregation
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Our Statement on the Killing of Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones in Jeffersontown, Kentucky
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Report on UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Visit to New York City
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We Stand in Solidarity with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Communities
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Maine Rally for Universal Health Care and Against Attacks on Medicaid
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Labor Trafficking Case Exposes Endemic Abuse in Minnesota’s Construction Industry
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Thousands Across the U.S. Join the March for Black Women
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Complaint Filed Against Auditing Company for Ignoring Fatal Flaws in Garment Factory
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Congressional Women’s Caucus Hearing on Workplace Sexual Harassment Spotlights Fair Food Program
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PUT PEOPLE FIRST! PA STATEWIDE WEEK OF ACTION
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Victory in Baltimore: 20 Million Dollars for Permanently Affordable Housing
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Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2018
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Healthcare is a Human Right Collaborative arrives in Hazleton
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Watch: The New Social Contract: A Framework for Change
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Open Democracy Article Highlights Advantages of Worker-Driven Social Responsibility
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Dismissing Water as a Human Right is a Dangerous Path
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Partners for Dignity & Rights at the Single Payer Strategy Conference
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Medicaid Organizing Updates
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Supporting a New Poor People’s Campaign
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We Stand with Families Targeted for Abuse
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Building a Poor People’s Movement for Our Right to Healthcare
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Wendy’s Can Run But Not Hide From its Responsibility to Workers
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Photos and Video From the launch of A New Social Contract: Collective Solutions Built by and for Communities!
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U.S. leads in income inequality and moving ‘full steam ahead to make itself more unequal’
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Responsible Job Creation Act, New Temp Work Law, Goes Into Effect
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Watch: A New Social Contract: Launch Event
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A New Social Contract: Collective Solutions Built by and for Communities
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Introduction Of City Charter Ballot Petition That Will Mandate Citizen Participation In Budget Making
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Introduction of Speculation Tax with entire City Council sponsorship
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Watch: Mia Charlene White, Imara Jones, and Cathy Albisa on a New Social Contract
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Campaign Led by ARISE Chicago Leads to Bill Creating New Office of Labor Standards Enforcement
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Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Spring 2018
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Launching A New Social Contract Promoting Bold and Transformative Community-Driven Solutions to Inequity
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Debunking False Health Care Solutions on The Laura Flanders Show
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State Bill Championed by Chicago Worker Centers Would Create New Enforcement Tool for Workers
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New Report: Advancing Gender Justice Through Worker-driven Social Responsibility
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Partners for Dignity & Rights joins Healthy California for a legislative hearing, rally, and lobby day at the State Capitol
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“How Power is Built from the Bottom”: CTUL, Minneapolis’ Worker Center Movement
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Racial & Economic Equity, Not Market, Should Be North Star of Local Budget Policy
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Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Fall 2017
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The Growing Movement for Worker-Driven Social Responsibility
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New York Times: Ben & Jerry’s Strikes Deal to Improve Migrant Dairy Workers’ Conditions
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Single Payer Is on the National Agenda—And It’s Thanks to People’s Movements
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The grassroots activists who paved the way for single-payer health care’s political moment
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Transformative Solutions to Guarantee Workers’ Rights
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Reflecting on Charlottesville
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Leveraging “Resiliency”
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Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2017
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Data Shows Texas Employers Shift Costs of Workplace Injuries Onto Workers, the Public
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Wake Forest Law Review: Preventing Forced Labor in Corporate Supply Chains: The Fair Food Program and Worker Driven Social Responsibility
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Read in Truthout: Poverty Wages, Deportations, Wage Theft, Cockroaches: Farmworkers Demand Dignity from Ben & Jerry’s
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Health Is a Right — Not a Commodity
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Whose Dissent is Putting Them in Danger?
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The Senate Health Care Bill Is an Assault on Human Rights
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Wealthy Speculators Drive Up Home Prices in L.A. A New Tax on Them Could Make Housing Affordable
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Shutting Out the Public from the Senate Healthcare Bill Isn’t Just Antidemocratic: It’s Deadly
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From Coast to Coast: California shows that the road to universal, publicly funded health care runs through the states.
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Prominent Human Rights Organizations Send Ben & Jerry’s Letter in Support of Milk with Dignity
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Enrique Balcazar: “Why I am Marching to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Plant”
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VIDEO: How A $40 Million Affordable Housing Fund Could Transform Baltimore
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In These Times: Trumpcare 2.0 Is a Death Bill. It’s Time to Fight for the System We Want
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Workplaces in Chicago Have ‘Become Dangerous and Abusive Sweatshops’: Study
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New Study Finds “More Sweatshops than Starbucks” in Chicago
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REPORT RELEASE: Challenging the Business of Fear
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IL Survey of 300 Low-Wage Workers: Some Face Denial of Workers’ Comp Benefits, Retaliation
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Workers Face Retaliation for Speaking Out: Report
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Study Focuses On Retaliation Against Low-Wage Workers
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Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Winter/Spring 2017
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Baltimore Mayor Backs Public Funds for Community Land Trusts to Fight Displacement
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Released from Jail, Dairy Worker Leaders Take Action at Ben & Jerry’s Harvard Square, Next up, Scoop Shops everywhere on Tuesday, April 4!
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Beyond Washington Politicking, the Real Health Care Story Is in the States
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Radio Dispatch interview with Ben Palmquist and Nijmie Dzurinko on the failire of the AHCA and grassroots Healthcare Is a Human Right organizing
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Ellen Schwartz on the arrest of human rights defenders José Enrique Balcazar Sanchez and Zully Victoria Palacios Rodriguez
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Human Rights Leaders from Migrant Justice Targeted in Vermont
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OpEd: UVMMC’S Path to a Health Care Monopoly
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What the CBO revealed about the American Health Care Act
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Professor Darrick Hamilton’s 10-Point Plan for a New Social Contract
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Why We Need an Alternative Vision, Not Alternative Facts
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Tomato Pickers Win Higher Pay. Can Other Workers Use Their Strategy?
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The Growing Grassroots: A conversation with Cait Vaughan
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Five Key Things to Know about the Republican Health Care Plan
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¿Son justas las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores temporales?
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Empleados Temporales Exigen Mejores Beneficios
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Groups Claim Illinois Businesses Are Taking Advantage of Temp Workers
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Lawmaker, Advocates Denounce Illinois Temp Worker Mistreatment
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New Data Shows Decrease in Arrests and Summonses in Schools; Communities Call for Further Decrease in School Policing
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Movement for Black Lives Pushes for Victories City by City
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Youth and Parents will Continue the Fight for Quality Public Education for All Students
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We Don’t Need a “Temporary Economy.” We Need a Responsible Job Creation Act Now
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Students and Parents Across the Country Continue to Oppose Betsy DeVos’ Nomination for Secretary of Education
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The latest on the attacks on health care
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