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Hiring: Interim Communications Consultant for Dignity in Schools Campaign

Hiring: Director of Development, Partners for Dignity & Rights

Listen: Our Struggle is to Indigenize: Judith Le Blanc of Native Organizers Alliance on The Next World Podcast

Listen: Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools: With Janice Harper, Kameisha Smith, Katie Coates & Tafari Melisizwe

Sign the Petition to Support a New Social Contract

Listen: Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy Podcast

Join Partners for Dignity & Rights at The 22nd Century Conference

Statement Against The Criminalization of Solidarity

Article: The Dirty Little Secret—Rising Property Values Are Incompatible with Affordability

Hiring: Development Coordinator, Partners for Dignity & Rights

Article: How to Build Multiracial Democracy at the Local Level

Listen: Rukia Lumumba from the People’s Advocacy Institute, Jackson, Mississippi

Article: Building Bottom-Up Democracy Through Co-Governance

Job Announcement: Organizing and Partnerships Director

Watch: “Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy” Report Launch and Webinar

Sarah Newell of WSRN Discusses Corporate vs. Worker-driven Social Responsibility

Job Announcement: Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York Membership and Campaign Director

Dairy Workers Call on Hannafords for Justice

Worker-driven Social Responsibility Model Adopted by More Workers and Industries

Dignity in Schools Week of Action

Listen: Black Land and Black Liberation with Njera Keith and Kristina Brown of 400+1

Listen: Seventeen Years After Hurricane Katrina, Still Organizing for Education Justice

Listen: Art and Abolition With Bryonn Bain, Author of Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape

Watch: From the Ground Up: Community Centered Policies to Scale Equitable Development – From our New Social Contract Webinar Series

Listen: Food Justice and Black Liberation on The Next World Podcast

Victory: Victoria’s Secret pays $8.3 million dollars in wage theft settlement

Advancing Housing Justice: Three Key Steps

Our Response to the Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade

Dignity in Schools Statement on the Killings in Uvalde, TX

Grief, Rage and Resistance: Our Statement on the Killings in Buffalo

Video: Rob Robinson on Panel on Poverty and Human Rights

New Social Contract Webinar Series: Cultivating Food Justice

A New Investment in Our Future

Solidarity with the Shackdwellers Movement in South Africa

On International Women’s Day 2022, We Join With Women on the Front Lines

The American Prospect on Put People First! PA’s Public Advocate Campaign

Remembering Paul Farmer

Our Work for Economic Democracy

New Social Contract Webinar Series: Privatization or Economic Democracy?

Jessica Chaves Tavares has joined Dignity in Schools Campaign as National Field Organizer

Announcing our New Co-Executive Director!

Watch: Partners for Dignity & Rights Co-Founders in Dignity in Schools Discussion

Dignity in Schools Campaign in New Book

Watch: Organizing for Victory: Fighting for Healthcare for All in New York

The Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts

WATCH: Affordable for Whom?: An Online Summit on Community Controlled, Deeply Affordable Housing

Watch: How do we invest in our communities?

Democratizing Workers’ Compensation: Our Final Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter

Labor and Community Organizations Call on Health Care Task Force to Prioritize Human Rights

We Must Fight Privatization of Medicare and Medicaid to Win Universal Health Care

New Video: The Billionaires Exploiting Garment Workers

Affordable for Whom?: An Online Summit on Community Controlled, Deeply Affordable Housing

Letter to Congress: It’s time to Expand and Improve Medicare

Job Announcement: Co-Executive Director

Latest on Partners for Dignity & Rights in the Media

New Video: Pay Women Garment Workers a Living Wage!

Partners for Dignity & Rights Announces Co-Executive Director Leadership Transition

June 5 Rally & March for Police-Free Schools

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

Listen: Ben Palmquist, Program Director, Health Care and Economic Democracy, on Citations Needed Podcast

Is Conviction Justice?

Listen: Liberating Housing on The Next World Podcast

Rising Against Anti-Asian Discrimination and Violence

Don’t Let Hospital CEO’s Shut Down Care

How the U.S. Health Care System is and isn’t Working

Beyond Survival One Year Later

New Video: Respect Garment Workers!

Democratizing Governance to Advance Health Justice and Economic Democracy

Interview on Medicare for All and health justice narratives on Oregon community radio

The Struggle for Healthcare Justice: It’s Movement Time

How to Change the Media Discourse to Win Medicare for All and a Multiracial Democracy

Health, Racial Disparities, and Economic Justice

The COVID Jungle: Chicagoland’s Essential Food Workers and the Need for Vaccination Priority

New Episode of The Next World Podcast: M. Adams of Freedom Inc

Honoring Our Power – 15 Years of Dignity and Rights

Believe in NYC Schools: Safety Without Policing

New Episode of The Next World Podcast: Sterling Johnson and Jenn Bennetch of Philadelphia Housing Action

Whatever Happens, We are Ready to Keep Fighting

Watch: It’s Time for a New Social Contract

The Stakes Could Not Be Higher

Hiring: Director of Development, Partners for Dignity & Rights

#PoliceFreeSchools Learning Institute Schedule: Join Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY Members for a Week of Radical Learning

Join the National Week of Action Against School Pushout: October 3 – 11, 2020

Request For Qualifications: Research Consultant on Deeply Affordable Housing Development

Paid Internship with Partners for Dignity & Rights: Fair Development Research

The Power of Labor

We are Excited to Announce our new Co-Executive Director!

UN expert urges a ban on evictions during COVID-19 pandemic

Housing Now! Listen to the Latest Episode of The Next World Podcast

Join us in Saying No to Austerity and Police Budgets, Yes to Democracy and Human Needs

Watch: Honoring Our Power: Community Solutions in a Time of Crisis

How to Make This Year’s Eviction Crisis Our Last

Can We Learn from COVID-19?

Solidarity Statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo (South African Shack Dwellers Movement) to Black Lives Matter

Defund Police, Invest in Transformative Justice

To Fight COVID–19, We Need to Build Worker Power and Worker Safety

Addressing Our Real Deficits: Democracy and Human Rights

Building Worker Power into Standard Setting, Monitoring and Enforcement

Watch: Naomi Klein, Maurice Mitchell, and Cathy Albisa on a New Social Contract

No Turning Back: How the Pandemic Opens the Door to a New Economy for People and the Planet

The U.S. Has Eliminated Thousands of Hospital Beds in the Last Ten Years, Exacerbating the Current COVID-19 Crisis

From Free CovidCare to Medicare For All

A Goodbye from Cathy Albisa, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Partners for Dignity & Rights

Reports from the Frontlines of COVID-19

Calls to Action in Response to COVID-19

Watch: New Hampshire People’s Issues Forum Supports A New Social Contract for Workers

Our Statement on COVID-19/Coronavirus and Human Rights

Single-Payer Health Care Did Not Fail in Vermont

[Closed] Part-Time Health Care Justice Research Assistant

Watch: Senator Bernie Sanders endorses A New Social Contract for Workers

Listen: Do We Need a New Social Contract?

New Social Contract Tour Coming to a City Near You

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative is now Partners for Dignity & Rights

Black Lives Matter at School Week, Feb. 3-7, 2020

Watch this new video from the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network

Vermont Workers’ Center Medicaid Assembly at the State House

Jobs for All: A Manifesto

Building Dignity and Respect

Commemorating Human Rights Day

Save The Date for our 15th Anniversary Celebration

Commemorating Indigenous Resistance

Senator Bernie Sanders Endorses New Social Contract for Workers

Watch: Philly Organizers on Building a New Social Contract

Building Worker Power: Moving Beyond Standards to Enforcement

Join Dignity in Schools Campaign for 10th National Week of Action Against School Pushout

Why the Argument that Medicare for All Will Curtail “Freedom” Is So, So Wrong

Take Action! Make Big Polluters Pay to Address the Climate Crisis They’ve Caused

The Future Belongs to Globalists

A New Social Contract for Workers – See Report

Expect More Health Industry Spin At Thursday’s Democratic Debate

Partners for Dignity & Rights Director Cathy Albisa to Receive Human Rights Award

New Social Contract Tour

National Affordable for Whom Conference – 2019

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2019

Economists endorsed a unified public insurance system, not a fractured multi-payer insurance system

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on how the health insurance industry warped media coverage

REPORT: Media Repeating Insurance Industry Talking Points

More than 250 economists sign letter backing Medicare for All

Responding to Rising Tide of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Leader of Brazil Landless Workers’ Movement Visits NYC

Our Statement on Recent Arsons in the U.S. South

Save The Date for Grounding Reparations: Community Land Ownership & Racial Equity

The Nation on “The Human-Rights Agenda Underlying the 2019 Medicare for All Bill”

Our statement on attacks on Muslims in New Zealand

Our Statement on International Women’s Day

New Release: Human Rights Assessment of Medicare for All Act of 2019

Common Dreams: Jayapal’s Medicare for All Bill ‘Sets a New Standard’ for Guaranteeing Healthcare as a Human Right

What is the national health care debate really about? Splinter breaks it down.

Protest expected Wednesday afternoon outside county government building against UPMC Pinnacle closure

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Winter 2019

Workers’ comp news from around the country

Punitive Policies Target Low-Wage Workers, Create Barriers to Workers’ Comp

The next six months in the politics of universal health care

Put People First! Pennsylvania Members Fight to Keep Hospital Open

Medicaid work requirements don’t work. Maine was right to reject them.

On MLK Day: Add Your Name Supporting A New Social Contract

Mainers organize to defend Medicaid

Press Release: Students of Color and Community Organizations From Across the Country Respond to Federal Commission on School Safety Findings

We Support Love Knows No Borders: A Moral Call for Migrant Justice

Courage and Commitment on Human Rights Day

Partners for Dignity & Rights Joins With People’s Demands for Climate Justice

What do the midterm election results mean for health care?

Our Statement on the Killings at the Tree of Life * Or L’Simcha Congregation

Our Statement on the Killing of Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones in Jeffersontown, Kentucky

Report on UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Visit to New York City

We Stand in Solidarity with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Communities

Maine Rally for Universal Health Care and Against Attacks on Medicaid

Labor Trafficking Case Exposes Endemic Abuse in Minnesota’s Construction Industry

Thousands Across the U.S. Join the March for Black Women

Complaint Filed Against Auditing Company for Ignoring Fatal Flaws in Garment Factory

Congressional Women’s Caucus Hearing on Workplace Sexual Harassment Spotlights Fair Food Program

PUT PEOPLE FIRST! PA STATEWIDE WEEK OF ACTION

Victory in Baltimore: 20 Million Dollars for Permanently Affordable Housing

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2018

Healthcare is a Human Right Collaborative arrives in Hazleton

Watch: The New Social Contract: A Framework for Change

Open Democracy Article Highlights Advantages of Worker-Driven Social Responsibility

Dismissing Water as a Human Right is a Dangerous Path

Partners for Dignity & Rights at the Single Payer Strategy Conference

Medicaid Organizing Updates

Supporting a New Poor People’s Campaign

We Stand with Families Targeted for Abuse

Building a Poor People’s Movement for Our Right to Healthcare

Wendy’s Can Run But Not Hide From its Responsibility to Workers

Photos and Video From the launch of A New Social Contract: Collective Solutions Built by and for Communities!

U.S. leads in income inequality and moving ‘full steam ahead to make itself more unequal’

Responsible Job Creation Act, New Temp Work Law, Goes Into Effect

Watch: A New Social Contract: Launch Event

A New Social Contract: Collective Solutions Built by and for Communities

Introduction Of City Charter Ballot Petition That Will Mandate Citizen Participation In Budget Making

Introduction of Speculation Tax with entire City Council sponsorship

Watch: Mia Charlene White, Imara Jones, and Cathy Albisa on a New Social Contract

Launching A New Social Contract Promoting Bold and Transformative Community-Driven Solutions to Inequity

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Spring 2018

Campaign Led by ARISE Chicago Leads to Bill Creating New Office of Labor Standards Enforcement

Debunking False Health Care Solutions on The Laura Flanders Show

State Bill Championed by Chicago Worker Centers Would Create New Enforcement Tool for Workers

New Report: Advancing Gender Justice Through Worker-driven Social Responsibility

Partners for Dignity & Rights joins Healthy California for a legislative hearing, rally, and lobby day at the State Capitol

“How Power is Built from the Bottom”: CTUL, Minneapolis’ Worker Center Movement

Racial & Economic Equity, Not Market, Should Be North Star of Local Budget Policy

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Fall 2017

The Growing Movement for Worker-Driven Social Responsibility

New York Times: Ben & Jerry’s Strikes Deal to Improve Migrant Dairy Workers’ Conditions

The grassroots activists who paved the way for single-payer health care’s political moment

Single Payer Is on the National Agenda—And It’s Thanks to People’s Movements

Transformative Solutions to Guarantee Workers’ Rights

Reflecting on Charlottesville

Leveraging “Resiliency”

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2017

Data Shows Texas Employers Shift Costs of Workplace Injuries Onto Workers, the Public

Wake Forest Law Review: Preventing Forced Labor in Corporate Supply Chains: The Fair Food Program and Worker Driven Social Responsibility

Read in Truthout: Poverty Wages, Deportations, Wage Theft, Cockroaches: Farmworkers Demand Dignity from Ben & Jerry’s

Health Is a Right — Not a Commodity

Whose Dissent is Putting Them in Danger?

The Senate Health Care Bill Is an Assault on Human Rights

Wealthy Speculators Drive Up Home Prices in L.A. A New Tax on Them Could Make Housing Affordable

Shutting Out the Public from the Senate Healthcare Bill Isn’t Just Antidemocratic: It’s Deadly

From Coast to Coast: California shows that the road to universal, publicly funded health care runs through the states.

Prominent Human Rights Organizations Send Ben & Jerry’s Letter in Support of Milk with Dignity

Enrique Balcazar: “Why I am Marching to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Plant”

VIDEO: How A $40 Million Affordable Housing Fund Could Transform Baltimore

In These Times: Trumpcare 2.0 Is a Death Bill. It’s Time to Fight for the System We Want

Workplaces in Chicago Have ‘Become Dangerous and Abusive Sweatshops’: Study

New Study Finds “More Sweatshops than Starbucks” in Chicago

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Winter/Spring 2017

Study Focuses On Retaliation Against Low-Wage Workers

Workers Face Retaliation for Speaking Out: Report

IL Survey of 300 Low-Wage Workers: Some Face Denial of Workers’ Comp Benefits, Retaliation

REPORT RELEASE: Challenging the Business of Fear

Baltimore Mayor Backs Public Funds for Community Land Trusts to Fight Displacement

Released from Jail, Dairy Worker Leaders Take Action at Ben & Jerry’s Harvard Square, Next up, Scoop Shops everywhere on Tuesday, April 4!

Beyond Washington Politicking, the Real Health Care Story Is in the States

Radio Dispatch interview with Ben Palmquist and Nijmie Dzurinko on the failire of the AHCA and grassroots Healthcare Is a Human Right organizing

Jamie Longazel: Barletta takes coal baron approach on health care

Ellen Schwartz on the arrest of human rights defenders José Enrique Balcazar Sanchez and Zully Victoria Palacios Rodriguez

Human Rights Leaders from Migrant Justice Targeted in Vermont

What the CBO revealed about the American Health Care Act

OpEd: UVMMC’S Path to a Health Care Monopoly

Professor Darrick Hamilton’s 10-Point Plan for a New Social Contract

Why We Need an Alternative Vision, Not Alternative Facts

The Growing Grassroots: A conversation with Cait Vaughan

Tomato Pickers Win Higher Pay. Can Other Workers Use Their Strategy?

Five Key Things to Know about the Republican Health Care Plan

Empleados Temporales Exigen Mejores Beneficios

¿Son justas las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores temporales?

Lawmaker, Advocates Denounce Illinois Temp Worker Mistreatment

Groups Claim Illinois Businesses Are Taking Advantage of Temp Workers

Movement for Black Lives Pushes for Victories City by City

New Data Shows Decrease in Arrests and Summonses in Schools; Communities Call for Further Decrease in School Policing

Youth and Parents will Continue the Fight for Quality Public Education for All Students

We Don’t Need a “Temporary Economy.” We Need a Responsible Job Creation Act Now

Students and Parents Across the Country Continue to Oppose Betsy DeVos’ Nomination for Secretary of Education

The latest on the attacks on health care

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

MLK Reminds Us We Need a New Social Contract

HCHR Collaborative statement on healthcare organizing in the Trump era

Healthcare Is a Human Right campaign news

Congress deregulates drug and medical device approval, Tom Price tapped to head HHS

Human Rights Day Reminds Us to Build Opposition and Democracy for a Just Future

On Building Opposition, Not Just Resistance, to the Trump Coalition

Facing Trumpism: An Overview of Threats

Supporting Human Rights and Inclusive Democracy

What to Expect from the Coming Republican Attacks on Health Care

On Protecting Democracy & Human Rights in the Trump Era

Thank you for protecting human rights in the Trump Era

NESRI & PPF-PA publish report on healthcare in Pennsylvania

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Fall 2016

Op-Ed: “It’s time for insurance companies to stop putting profits ahead of people”

National Coalition Dignity in Schools Campaign Calls for Removal of Police from Schools

Arrests & Summons in NYC Schools Decrease but Deep Racial Disparities Still Remain a Concern

Federal Govt. Releases Guidance on Police in Schools, But Solutions Should Go Further to Call for More Counselors Not Police

Aetna and Mylan are model companies in a healthcare system that values corporate profits over human lives

Economic Justice a Core Demand in A Vision for Black Lives Policy Agenda

Students, Parents and Teachers Urge the City to Adopt Further Changes to Finally End the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2016

The latest from the Healthcare Is a Human Right Collaborative

Analysis of national healthcare news

NESRI Statement on the Killings of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and Dallas Police Officers

U.S. Secretary of Education Calls on Charter Schools to Rethink Discipline

Reflections on the Mass Shooting in Orlando

NESRI Supports Crispin Hernandez and the Right of New York Farmworkers to Organize

Baltimore City Council to Consider Fair Development Standards in Public Development Subsidies

New OSHA rule to help protect workers from retaliation

Honoring Michael Ratner

DSC Members Convene in Los Angeles to Strategize to End School Pushout

Farmworkers & Consumers Declare a National Boycott of Wendy’s

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Winter 2016

PRESS RELEASE: Economists decry political attacks, urge serious exploration of universal, publicly financed health care

Economists call out politically motivated attacks to prevent serious exploration of universal health care

Radio interview on workers’ compensation and universal, publicly financed health care

The New York Times and Other Elites Attempt to Stem Growing Demand for Universal Health Care

The latest from the Healthcare Is a Human Right Collaborative

Rights-based analysis of recent health and health care news

From our partners: organizing poor and working class movements in the context of racism, classism and daily struggles to survive

Report Release: Community + Land + Trust: Tools for Development without Displacement

Bernie Sanders can talk universal health care, but we have to make it happen

Why We Need a New Social Contract for the New Economy

Raise the Floor Alliance Launches in Illinois
