by Bob Cohen | Jun 20, 2011 | Health Care
As this entry is being written – on June 20th, the last day of the scheduled New York legislative session — advocates for health care reform are converging on the State Capitol in Albany to make a last push for the Legislature to create a pro-consumer health...
by Communications Team | Jun 13, 2011 | Education, Health Care
With just 5 working days left in this year’s legislative session, it’s time to buckle down and get our goals accomplished. We need to make sure that our state government helps to make a New York that works for everyone. We need to urge Governor Cuomo not...
by Communications Team | Jun 8, 2011 | Health Care
Tell New York State: enact legislation creating a health insurance Exchange in order to receive millions of dollars in federal assistance, and to ensure the Exchange is ready for consumers and small businesses to use! Don’t let the fox in the hen house!
by Communications Team | May 18, 2011 | Education, Health Care
On Tuesday, May 17, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver introduced legislation to extend the millionaires’ tax beyond the end of the year deadline. Speaker Silver cited this extension as a “moral imperative.” It’s unreasonable, unethical, and...
by Communications Team | May 16, 2011 | Capital District, Education, Health Care, New York City
On Thursday, May 12, I hopped on a bus with Citizen Action of New York and other local activists. We made the trip from Albany to Lower Manhattan in order to join with On May 12, a massive political rally to protest a devastating state budget that puts millionaires...
by Communications Team | May 9, 2011 | Education, Fair Elections, Health Care, New York City
On Thursday, May 12th, thousands of concerned New Yorkers will converge at public assembly points throughout lower Manhattan to protest a devastating state budget that puts millionaires before working New Yorkers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing disastrous budget...
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 | 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 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...
