Sentences with phrase «popular democracy»

The Center for Popular Democracy works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high - impact base - building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.

Even with regard to most stockholders they work no better than popular democracy works with respect to ordinary citizens.

This is certainly good news for AFT President Randi Weingarten, who sits on Popular Democracy's board and whose own union poured $ 160,000 into the outfit and its political wing.

Cuomo will bask equally in the adoration of national reform groups (the Center for Popular Democracy said Cuomo is «leading the way») and scorn from the right.

Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT), along with the Center for Popular Democracy released From Failure to Freedom, a report that reveals that Milwaukee Public Schools» (MPS) reliance on punitive approaches to school discipline is ineffective, costly, and most troublingly, racially biased.

Bartomeu describes the club as an exercise in popular democracy, and members — and many players — feel intensely attached to it.

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Roger Scruton makes the novel claim that «The emergence of the welfare state was therefore a more or less inevitable result of popular democracy under the impact of total war.»

Josie Duffy of the Center for Popular Democracy joined us to explain.

At noon, members of the Hedge Clippers campaign, New York Communities for Change and The Center for Popular Democracy protest Blackstone, a company behind foreclosures in Puerto Rico, 345 Park Ave., Manhattan.

Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy recently exposed President Trump's corporate «backers of hate,» companies that stand to profit off an agenda so steeped in hate, prejudice, and greed, you would have to be willfully blind not to see it.

This toolkit from the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice and the Center for Popular Democracy gives an overview of how community schools work and how advocates can push for them in their own cities and districts.

Megan joins the Center for Popular Democracy as a Digital Campaign Strategist after serving as the organization's first Digital Fellow.

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A report released in February by the Center for Popular Democracy profiled eight campuses and school districts across the country that have implemented the community schools model with tremendous success.

In a recent Center for Popular Democracy report, we detailed examples of youth - focused campaigns for high school registration around the country.

««JPMorgan's commitment under these agreements is in the hundreds of millions of dollars,» Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy alleges on their website.

Earlier this year, In the Public Interest and Center for Popular Democracy created the Charter School Accountability Agenda, an 11 - point package of common sense reforms.

Education designed to further individual ambitions in fact intensifies the forces that make for the inefficiency and instability of popular democracy.

The Center for Popular Democracy said three in five American workers — about 75 million people — are paid hourly, with recent job growth mainly in low - wage jobs, often part - time and subject to last - minute scheduling practices.

After a recent poll found that voters want greater oversight for charter schools, In The Public Interest and the Center for Popular Democracy released The Charter School Accountability Agenda: An 11 - Point Program for Reform, which outlines steps for states to ensure public accountability and provide oversight to improve student learning and reduce instances of fraud.

But given the conglomerate control of our mass media and the difficulties of mobilizing our large and diverse population, such an opting for popular democracy, as we remember it from our past, seems unlikely.

If anything has gotten easier for Barkan despite the physical and emotional challenges that comes with his illness, it's that the issues he is now advocating for are much simpler to explain to people than US interest rate policy, which has been his focus at the Center for Popular Democracy.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

The Center for Popular Democracy — located in Brooklyn, New York — has launched the Maria Fund, which is focusing on aid for low - income communities of color, women, and girls in Puerto Rico.

While managers may be apt to blame software for wonky work calendars, Carrie Gleason, a director at the Center for Popular Democracy, said the problem isn't technology but how managers use it.

The Maria Fund is housed at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Ms. Caro Diaz is part of the Organizing and Capacity Building Team at the Center for Popular Democracy and provides support to social movements in Puerto Rico struggling against the debt and austerity measures proposed by a Fiscal Control Board.

Since Strauss» time, prosperity and popular democracy have come to Hungary: a Hungarian theater company now performs the Sophocles «Strauss Electra at the Danube Shopping Mall, while people continue to shop, or to ice skate at the mall's indoor rink.

At 7:30 a.m., community members from Make the Road New York, Center for Popular Democracy, and others march against a corporation supporting Trump's agenda, Bryant Park, 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, Manhattan.

«We write to direct your urgent attention to the destructive role of these companies in the current crisis in Puerto Rico, in which massive hurricane damage and economic loss is being exploited by private equity funds seeking huge profits from human suffering,» says the letter, which was also signed by groups including New York Communities for Change and the Center for Popular Democracy.

He has faced down the unelected House of Lords, giving Britain its first taste of popular democracy.

The group is composed of a variety of left - lenaing organizations including Citizen Action, Strong Economy For All and the Center for Popular Democracy.

The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), Make the Road NY (MRNY) and New York Communities for Change (NYCC) are laying the groundwork for such partnerships in Suffolk County, NY, seizing new...

Ady Barkan was the founding director of two major projects at the Center for Popular Democracy: Local Progress and the Fed Up campaign.

Last week, the Center for Popular Democracy, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, Enlace International, and the Strong Economy for All Coalition released a report, «Bankrolling...

by the Center for Popular Democracy, the Law for Black Lives, and the Black Youth Project 100 that supports this perception.

Others on the panel included Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director of The Center for Popular Democracy; Andrew Rasiej, Founder of Personal Democracy Media; and Serge Kreiker, Co-Founder and CTO at Kapitall.

«When localities are enacting these policies and rejecting these kinds of collaborations, they are not engaging in civil disobedience,» insisted Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy.

Last week, the Center for Popular Democracy, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, Enlace...

The sanctuary city meeting, hosted by Mark - Viverito in collaboration with Local Progress and the Center for Popular Democracy, was held at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY) in Lower Manhattan on March 27 and 28.

Center for Popular Democracy, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, Enlace International, and the Strong Economy for All Coalition

Center for Popular Democracy's staff includes leading thinkers in policy, civil rights, social justice, and organizing.

Honoree Ana María Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy.

From the Journey for Justice and allied protesters in Chicago locking themselves down in front of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Office demanding equity for Dyett High students, to a report by Center for Popular Democracy, Action United and Integrity in Education exposing over $ 30 million in charter fraud in Pennsylvania with accompanying actions, we see clearly that the tide is turning!