“Americans are fighters. We’re tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one – no one can stop us.”

When President Joe Biden took office, we were in a 10 million jobs hole. COVID-19 was surging again across the country and there was no plan to vaccinate the US population. We are now experiencing a record economic recovery, with record job growth and record wages. The economy has created an average of 540,000 jobs per month over the last four months, and last month, the unemployment rate fell to the lowest level since the pandemic began. That’s more jobs created in the first four months of any presidency in history.

We are experiencing a record-breaking economic recovery — and it is thanks in large part to the American Rescue Plan providing communities with the direct relief and forward-thinking support to build back better.

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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is the largest long-term investment in our infrastructure in nearly a century. It will build a nationwide network of electric vehicle (EV) chargers, eliminate the nation’s lead service lines and pipes, and will accomplish the President’s goal of getting every American reliable, affordable, high-speed internet. Economists across the board agree that this plan will mean more jobs, more workers participating in the labor force, higher productivity, and higher growth for our economy over the long term. As the President says, this is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America. Read More

After the Republican Party all voted to block debate on the For The People Act, the fight is far from over. The movement is full-speed ahead in passing much-needed protections to our democracy. The fight is too important and, as Sen. Joe Manchin himself said earlier this year, “inaction is not an option.”

The expanded #ChildTaxCredit will provide millions of families with monthly checks and slash child poverty in half. We NEED to make this expansion PERMANENT. We can do that by making those at the top pay their fair share.

Watch Heather at the By the Light of Burning Dreams book talk at City Lights Book Store. It is 7 chapters, each on a leader or group of leaders from various movements in the 1960s and 1970s (Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton/Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta/United Farm Workers, Craig Rodwell/Stonewall, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Dennis Banks and Madonna Thunder Hawk/Wounded Knee and Heather Booth and the women of JANE underground collective).

Exterminate All the Brutes, from acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck, is a four-part hybrid docuseries that provides a visually arresting journey through time, into the darkest hours of humanity. Through his personal voyage, Peck deconstructs the making and masking of history, digging deep into the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism — from America to Africa and its impact on society today. Watch the trailer

Most working families will receive automatic payments – no sign-ups needed, all you need to do is make sure you’ve filed your taxes. Go to childtaxcredit.gov to learn more.

Jay’s commitment to racial justice and democracy at the grassroots level has led her to play leadership roles in building local and national organizing alliances for education justice, youth employment, affordable housing, and political independence. Jay Travis has worked to highlight the intersection between gentrification and education issues, and played a vital role in building community and labor alliances fighting to protect public education and against mass school closings impacting black and brown students at the local, state and national level. Jay was a trainer with the Midwest Academy for five years prior to becoming co-Director in 2019. Read More

Eric’s career has included deep experience in both community and union organizing and has been distinguished by starting and directing new projects and alliances in the struggle for social justice. He has helped to establish community-labor alliances fighting for educational and racial justice in a dozen cities. Working with a wide range of community, labor, university and faith-based allies at the neighborhood, city and national levels, all of these efforts have included a participatory and democratic culture at their heart, along with a deep commitment to racial, economic and gender diversity and justice. Read More

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