Working Families

Crain’s Insider ran this brief today on the WFP’s statewide endorsement process:
 

WFP Nod Is Hot Ticket
More than 1,000 candidates across the state are seeking the endorsement of the labor-backed Working Families Party, the most in its 11-year history. Contenders seeking the party’s backing include more than 100 City Council candidates and all four Manhattan district attorney hopefuls. The [...]

Crain’s New York Business reporter Daniel Massey takes a look at the launch of the WFP’s Green Homes / Green Jobs push.  Tomorrow, the Center for Working Families will release a major report detailing how New York can green one million homes, create tens of thousands of jobs, and reduce our carbon footprint through energy [...]

Watch Making Things Happen, a 12-minute mini-documentary from 2005 on how the Working Families Party makes a difference:

With the Working Families Party going strong in New York and Connecticut, and new parties being built in Oregon and Delaware, the Working Families Party will appear on ballot in four states across the country. From the always informative Ballot Access News:

Working Families Party Has Candidates in Four States
September 24th, 2008
The Working Families Party, which [...]

David Sirota’s new bestsellingbook, “The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington,” is a firsthand narrative account inside America’s new populist movement.
Chapter 4, “The Boss and his Fusion Machine” is an in-depth look at the grassroots organizing and strategy of the WFP.