Working Families

Tuesday is Election Day.
There may not be any famous names on the ballot in this off-year, but your local elected officials often have an even greater impact on everyday life than your representatives in Washington or Albany.
That’s why the Working Families Party vets and endorses candidates for city council, county legislature, and mayor of towns [...]

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 [...]

For Immediate Release
October 13, 2011

Contact:
TJ Helmstetter: tjhelm@workingfamiliesparty.org

WFP Statement on Bloomberg Announcement re: Zuccotti Park
The following statement can be attributed to Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the Working Families Party:
Earlier this week, Mayor Bloomberg announced that he would not take measures to remove the Occupy Wall Street protesters from Freedom Plaza-Zuccotti [...]

Over the past few 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 weeks, these inspired and inspiring young people, under the banner of Occupy Wall Street, have occupied our attention and camped [...]

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 [...]

This post was written by Matthew Cain, one of several WFP staffers who went down to the labor and community march in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street after work today.
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I just got back from the march. The energy was palpable before we even arrived at Foley Square. Taking the subway from the office, it [...]

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 [...]

Ever since the Tea Party takeover of Congress, they’ve been waging vicious class warfare – on behalf of the rich, against everyone else.
It’s hard to believe: after two years of gut-wrenching recession and non-stop budget battles, the richest Americans still haven’t sacrificed a single penny.
Millions of Americans have seen jobs disappear, homes foreclosed and retirement [...]