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May 27, 2019

Bulletin Board — Mayor de Blasio Cuts NYC Vets Services by $118k, Meets with Las Vegas Vets

This weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio met with veterans in Nevada–yet he has never held a similar meeting with NYC veterans during his administration, and his current Executive Budget proposes to cut $118,000 from services for veterans and families. This past March, NYC Veterans Alliance members and community partners, including …

May 20, 2019

US Illegally Evicts Protectors From Venezuelan Embassy

On May 16, law enforcement agents broke into the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., and arrested the four remaining members of the Embassy Protection Collective. “We denounce these arrests, as the people inside were there with our permission, and we consider it a violation of the Vienna Conventions,” Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos …

May 18, 2019

Bulletin Board—#StopTheBans

Across the country, we are seeing a new wave of extreme bans on abortion, stripping away reproductive freedom and representing an all-out assault on abortion access. This is Trump’s anti-choice movement… and it’s terrifying, particularly for women of color and low-income women who are most affected by these bans.

May 8, 2019

Bulletin Board—We Need A Green New Deal—We’re Running Out of Time!

We are all tired of California’s elected national officials waving off climate policy. I was with the Sunrise Movement the morning students went to talk to Sen. Dianne Feinstein last February. Her behavior wasn’t just disgraceful, but really unwise.

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