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This recent wave of organizing is a direct response to corporate consolidation of power that has harmed Black and brown workers across the country.

Pesante Haughton uses communications and storytelling to drive change in oppressive systems.

Profit-seeking companies should not control what should be free, basic, and universal necessities.

How Northern Virginia activists and community members are organizing to prevent one of the biggest corporations in the world from taking over the civic, social and political life of Northern Virginia and beyond.

With its purchase of OneMedical—and, even more recently, its purchase of iRobot, Amazon is able to harvest even more data, sound, and video. This has frightening implications for people’s civil and human rights.

The Court and Congress should be accountable to the people, not corporations.

Hanks comes to Demos with a passion for the pursuit of equity and justice. 

Our nation’s leaders made Juneteenth a holiday—now it’s time they act on voting rights and economic justice for Black communities.

The Inclusive Democracy Project (IDP) convening brought together a community of Demos’ partners and leaders in the movement to share space and connect with each other.

At a time when unchecked corporate profiteering masquerades as inflation, a proposed NYC public bank would center the interests of, and fund projects for, Black and Brown communities.

Congress still has an opportunity to craft another legislative package and resuscitate crucial elements of the Build Back Better package.

Organizers from the Texas Organizing Project (TOP) have been working to change the balance of power in the county to ensure a more equitable distribution of disaster funding, so that the people most impacted by climate change have the most say in how that funding is spent. 

Grassroots organizers in Texas offer a blueprint for cementing equity into local recovery efforts.

Four executive and legislative actions President Biden should address in his speech

All of us — people of color especially — need our government to invest public dollars into our housing, our climate, our care, and our water. Community organizing is key to these efforts and to our collective safety and liberation.

A conversation about what’s standing in the way of progress towards an inclusive democracy and a just economy.

Tomorrow the United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case that has great relevance for our efforts to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy.

The Build Back Better Act would dramatically help working people and families. Now, the passage of this once-in-a-lifetime framework is in the hands of a few legislators who are beholden to corporations and the ultrarich.

People's Action and Demos have teamed up to call out the bad corporate actors who are spending big to stop President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda—and subverting the will of the people in the process.

Congress must act swiftly to advance this pro-democracy legislation. The Freedom To Vote Act is a significant structural voting rights reform package that advances racial equity and moves us toward an inclusive democracy.