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A Special Valentine’s Day Message for NYS Legislators
Yesterday, parents and schoolchildren in cities and towns across New York delivered special Valentine's Day messages to their State Senators and Assemblymembers. The message: "Don't break our hearts with more cuts to education." These events
Read More »From Momentum to A Movement
This past weekend, Citizen Action leaders from all across the state gathered in Kerhonkson, NY for our Annual Leadership Conference. The time together is meant for discussion, planning, and –yes–simply enjoying each others company.
Read More »Jobs – New York Has a Choice
While New York’s official unemployment rate is continuing to rise and statewide is now near 9%, the “real” unemployment rate is: 27.2% for Black men 18.8% for Hispanic Women 18.1% for Black women 17.4%
Read More »One Person, One Vote
The principle of ‘one person, one vote,’ is a sacred component of our democracy in the United States. But, here in New York, when it comes to counting people in prison, representation is anything
Read More »Faces of Change: Osman Muse
Osman moved to the US from Somalia with his parents when he was in the 6th grade. He remembers that when he got here, he felt like he was “trapped in outer space” because
Read More »What We’re Up Against
by Diana Cihak, Western New York Organizer I just got back from a meeting with Senator Gillibrand’s staff and they told me a sick, sad story. One of the staffers was returning to the office
Read More »All Politics is Local
by Diana Cihak, Western New York Organizer We are getting closer to winning real health care reform than we have ever been before. It’s not perfect, true – but we are going to win something.
Read More »Scene of a Crime in Buffalo
by Diana Cihak, Western New York Organizer On Friday, activists gathered in downtown Buffalo to call out the private health insurance industry and their practices of denying coverage in order to increase profits
Read More »Buffalo: District Wide Uniform Works to Reduce School Violence
Do a search for school violence on Google News and the number of results, which span the continental United States, is disheartening. The history of school violence begins for most Americans with Columbine and
Read More »Big Insurance is the Problem
On Tuesday, activists in dozens of state across the US protested the unfair, profiteering, and crisis-causing practices of big private insurance companies in America. In New York, Citizen Action focused on two of our
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