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...
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 | Feb 3, 2011 | Education, Health Care
Cross-posted to Jon’s Blog at DragonFlyEye.net. Cuomo’s on a roll. First, in his state of the union he called health care and education “special interests” and now he’s talking about massive cuts during a recession, when families are being hit hardest. Governor...
by Communications Team | Jan 20, 2011 | Health Care
Yesterday, the party of NO, now in control of the House of Representatives, staged a vote to repeal the new health care reform law signed by the President in March; the repeal passed 245-189 with all Republicans voting for health care repeal along with just 3...
by Bob Cohen | Jan 10, 2011 | Health Care
We are pleased to announce that the Public Policy and Education Fund (PPEF), Citizen Action’s research and education affiliate, has been selected by Community Health Advocates (CHA) to provide health care assistance in Erie and Niagara counties. The assistance has two...
by Communications Team | Dec 14, 2010 | Education, Health Care
On the day after Election Day, Karen Scharff sent a message to Citizen Action’s members. One paragraph was particularly insightful: As progressives, our best weapon in politics is our values – because when it comes down to it, our values aren’t progressive or...
by Communications Team | Jul 20, 2010 | Health Care
Health care reform was a critically important victory for our movement. Now, we need to defend it by spreading the truth about what’s really in the new law. Download our two new fact sheets and help spread the word by sharing them with your friends, neighbors...
