by Communications Team | Feb 23, 2011 | Capital District, Education, Fair Elections, Health Care, Hudson Valley, New York City, Rochester, Southern Tier, Western New York
This year’s Citizen Action leadership conference is the event that the progressive movement in New York has been waiting for. It’s the event our movement needs to grow stronger and move forward. It’s the event that you, as a progressive, need to...
by Communications Team | Feb 15, 2011 | Capital District, Education, New York City, Rochester, Southern Tier, Western New York
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...
by Communications Team | Feb 4, 2011 | Capital District, Education, Health Care
As New Yorkers push once again for voter owned public financing of elections, it may be helpful to take a look at how political financing is carried out by our Scandinavian neighbors. In Sweden and Iceland, for instance, there is public funding of elections through...
by Communications Team | Feb 4, 2011 | Capital District, Education, Health Care
Yesterday, Citizen Action of New York joined organizations from across the state at a gathering of the new GrowingTogetherNY budget coalition. This group of faith, human services, labor, and community-based organizations has come together to call on the Governor and...
by Communications Team | May 21, 2010 | Capital District
In our membership brochure, we describe ourselves as an organization where “people come together to push the edge of the possible.” That’s one of my favorite ways to describe what we do as an organization. It is, after all, central to the progressive...
by Communications Team | May 21, 2010 | Capital District, Education, Health Care, Hudson Valley, New York City, Rochester, Southern Tier, Western New York
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. Shanna Goldman, our...
by Communications Team | Apr 28, 2010 | Capital District, Education
While Legislators are doing a lot of talking about passing the now month-late State Budget, earlier today, parents, teachers, students and taxpayers joined the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) at the Capitol to deliver over 6,600 handwritten letters to Senators...
by Communications Team | Mar 20, 2010 | Capital District, Health Care
Congressman Murphy has announced that he is on the side of his consituents, New Yorkers, small businesses, and everyone in America by deciding to vote for health care reform. Thank you, Congressman Murphy! But New York Rep. Michael Arcuri says that he’ll be...
by Communications Team | Feb 3, 2010 | Capital District, New York City, Western New York
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 but equal. Last Thursday (January 28th), we kicked-off a new...
