From the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (http://www.nrcat.org): Right now Congressional leadership is negotiating the next COVID-19 relief bill. We urge you to contact your Members of Congress today at https://nrcat.salsalabs.org/stopthespreadofcovid19inprisons/index.html to help ensure our sisters and brothers who are incarcerated … Continued
Please take 3 minutes to protect access to clean water by calling your Senators. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the link between public health and access to clean water. Due to underinvestment in American and tribal water and wastewater systems, … Continued
From the Sierra Club (https://www.sierraclub.org/): The recent grand jury investigation included descriptions of the air as “Nauseating,” and of a “black sludge in the toilet,” and went on to say, “Many of those living in close proximity to a well pad … Continued
From Pennsylvania Common Cause: (https://www.commoncause.org/pennsylvania/): The Pennsylvania Department of State made a huge announcement a late last week — ALL Pennsylvania voters will receive postage-paid return envelopes with their mail-in and absentee ballots. And, it’s thanks to the work of activists like you across … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Safety Alliance (https://www.pasafetyalliance.org/): Pennsylvania has some of the highest rates of gun violence in the country. Policy solutions exist that work and that are supported by a majority of Pennsylvanians, but for too long, our leaders have … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): Negotiations over the next COVID-19 relief package are underway between congressional leaders and the White House. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has released a COVID-19 proposal that omits SNAP benefit boosts … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/28/majority-americans-back-black-lives-matter-protests-and-think-demonstrations-will Published on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 by Common Dreams A new Gallup survey shows that 65% of U.S. adults support the protests. By Andrea Germanos, staff writer Protesters march through lower Manhattan over the death of George … Continued
From the National Alliance to End Homelessness (http://www.endhomelessness.org): The Senate unveiled its latest coronavirus relief bill, and there’s bad news: not only does it fail to extend the eviction moratoria, but funding for homelessness and housing is nonexistent. As negotiations … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): It appears that the Senate is failing to recognize the scope and impact of this pandemic, and not giving workers or our economy what we really need. We need Congress to pass a strong, bold, comprehensive … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): A note from EPI’s Kirstyn Flood: Millions of workers, desperate for relief, continue to file for unemployment insurance as the additional $600 per week COVID benefit comes to an end. EPI experts unpack the myths and … Continued