Working Families

We just wanted to show you what your contributions helped us accomplish; lots of hungry demonstrators were fed and energized as they made it known to Governor Walker that they’re not backing down.
Here are some photos, courtesy of our friend Joe Gaglio, a proud former New Yorker and owner of Gotham Bagels in Madison, bringing [...]

“It’s like Cairo has moved to Madison.”
That’s the quote of the week, courtesy of a Republican Congressman in Wisconsin, observing the protests in his state capital [1].
For the past week, tens of thousands of working people and students have taken days off to protest the new Wisconsin Tea Party governor’s vicious assault on public employees [...]

“Why teach my children about ethics if the elected officials who are supposed to look out for their best interests…do not practice it themselves?”
These words come from one of hundreds of New Yorkers who have written a letter to Governor Cuomo urging him to include publicly financed, voter-owned elections in his promised ethics reform legislation.
This [...]