by Communications Team | Mar 29, 2011 | Capital District, Education, Health Care, Hudson Valley, New York City, Rochester, Southern Tier, Western New York
On Wednesday, March 30th, hundreds of concerned New Yorkers will converge upon the state Capitol to protest a devastating state budget that puts millionaires before working class New Yorkers. Organizations participating include Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen...
by Communications Team | Mar 1, 2011 | Capital District, Education, Fair Elections
“They get the gold, we get the shaft” is what hundreds of workers chanted at Albany’s Capitol today. They were joined by the Growing Together NY coalition and rallied to urge elected officials to protect their families’ jobs, their schools, their seniors, their...
by Communications Team | Feb 24, 2011 | Education
by Rosemary Rivera and Jia-Jia Zhu I really liked the blog posts from my colleagues, Charlie Albanetti and Tahisha Victor, and they got my thinking about how crucial being correctly informed is in a democracy. Once again, just watching the same poll data over and over...
by Communications Team | Feb 24, 2011 | Education
This week, Governor Andrew Cuomo said “I don’t believe in increasing taxes. I believe it’s counterproductive for the state… I believe more people will leave the state and you’ll have less revenue.” Well, according to Citizens for...
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 22, 2011 | Education, Fair Elections
by Bjarni Thoroddsson and Jia-Jia Zhu This past weekend was the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus, and several hundred attendees made their centerpoint a march with AQE, Citizen Action, and New York Communities for Change to the Governor’s Mansion in protest of the second...
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...
