by Communications Team | Aug 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Citizen Action of New York is pleased to announce the 2013 Campaign Endorsements: New York City Scott Stringer City Comptroller Gale Brewer Manhattan Borough President Yetta Kurland City Council District 3 Ben Kallos City Council District 5 Marc Landis City Council...
by Communications Team | Aug 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Cross-Posted from USAction Yesterday I joined over 40 other progressive leaders and activists in an act of non-violent civil-disobedience at the U.S. House of Representatives. I chose to get arrested because the time is now for Congress to act on comprehensive...
by Communications Team | Jul 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Guess what? Pro-fracking businesses and lobbying groups donated a ton of campaign cash to New York State’s elected officials. While we’ve known that for quite some time, our friends at Common Cause/NY released new, updated data today showing just how much...
by Communications Team | Apr 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Cross-posted from USAction: Because we are all immigrants. Today, leaders of USAction affiliates from across the U.S. will be coming to Washington. Along with tens of thousands of others, we will demand that Congress fix our broken immigration system now. No more...
by Communications Team | Dec 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Today, we joined with our partners at New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness and Strong Economy for All Coalition to release a new report: How Many? A Numbers Guide for Lame-Duck Fence-Sitting Anti-Fair-Share Millionaires-Over-Middle-Class Members of Congress. Here’s...
by Communications Team | Nov 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Citizen Action of New York has endorsed these candidates in the 2012 general election: President: Barack Obama Statewide: US Senate: Kirsten Gillibrand New York City: Congress: Jerry Nadler Carolyn Maloney State Senate: Andrew Gounardes Brad Hoylman Adriano Espaillat...
by Communications Team | Sep 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Today, we’ve announced that our Board of Directors has unanimously voted to endorse 4 outstanding candidates to represent us in the State Legislature. Below is the list of the candidates, along with some quotes from our local Board chairs and Citizen...
by Communications Team | Aug 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Today, Citizen Action of New York joined our coalition partners in New Yorkers Against Fracking and over 1500 New Yorkers from all corners of our state to send Governor Cuomo a message: we will not be ignored, hydrofracking must be banned statewide now. Actress Debra...
by Communications Team | Aug 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
For the past couple of weeks, faith leaders from across New York hopped in a bus and brought their message to New Yorkers across Upstate. That message: we can’t let the Romney-Ryan budget come to pass. The budget would effectively destroy Medicare, Medicaid and...
