Working Families

We’ve been fighting against fracking for two years. We’ve won a temporary moratorium. But now it’s coming down to the wire.
The Department of Environmental Conservation has written their draft environmental impact report. If approved, it would open the door to allow the frackers to start drilling. Once the drills start – and once those chemicals [...]

Matthew Cain here, online organizer at the Working Families Party.
Over the last month or so, seeing GOP frontrunner Herman Cain drag the “Cain” name through the mud has been tough. But today, he crossed the line by weighing in on New York state politics.
He came out for a giant tax cut [...]

Across the country, mayors and police departments have started cracking down on Occupy protests.
In Atlanta, the mayor revoked an executive order allowing the protesters to stay on Tuesday afternoon. Just after midnight, police swept Woodruff Park, arresting the 50 peaceful protesters who stayed behind. [1] The same day, Occupy Orlando was kicked [...]

It got pretty chilly this weekend. Next week will surely be cooler.
The protest – which has focused the eyes of the world on corporate greed and economic inequality – is free speech in action. But without shelter, the protesters occupying Wall Street down at Zuccotti Park could be frozen out and forced [...]

From Wall Street to Wasilla[1], Americans are demanding that politicians stand up for all of us, not just the top 1%. The reason: our society, and our economy, are out of whack.
President Obama’s jobs proposal will not pass in Congress. The Republicans have made that clear. Washington may not create jobs, [...]

When you get under the skin of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, you know you’re doing something right.
Beck, Limbaugh and a slew of paranoid right-wing conspiracy theorists found a job listing we posted for field organizers and are using it to spread a rumor that the protesters down at Occupy Wall Street are being paid [...]

Over the past two weeks, we’ve seen something unusual and promising: a gathering of people — mostly young — who are protesting the corporate power and coarse inequality that characterizes our society and economy. For two weeks, these inspired and inspiring young people, under the banner of Occupy Wall Street, [...]

Yesterday, the Congressional supercommittee tasked with reducing the budget deficit by more than a trillion dollars held an all-day closed-door meeting.[1]
We don’t know what happened at the meeting. But we do know that they are looking at cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Much of what’s sold as deficit reduction could [...]

A week after the Tea Party succeeded in making a bad situation worse, Verizon workers from Virginia to Massachusetts have gone on strike.
Why? Because Verizon, a Tea Party Corporation if there ever was one, wants to destroy the middle-class life — nothing fancy, but stable and with a future — that the 45,000 union workers [...]

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