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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · 10d

We're still celebrating and grieving the life of our North Star.

Fly High Assata Olugbala Shakur 🕊

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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 16d

🦋 This weekend, we celebrated Mexican Independence Day with our NYC communities despite ICE’s pervasive presence & threats throughout our neighborhoods.

Although these are dark times for our people, we will always show our pride for our culture & support one another.

‘We Are Not Going Back to the Shadows’: Staten Island’s Mexican Parade Marches On - Documented

Thousands of Mexican immigrants and allies gathered in Staten Island to celebrate Mexican Independence Day, despite fears of ICE presence, to show their pride in their culture and to support one anoth...

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 17d

Workers are about to see their health insurance costs go up by 5%.

Employers will see 10% higher health insurance costs.

That's because healthcare is being cut in order to send a six-figure tax break to each member of the richest 1%.

I'm sure that'll be great for the economy.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17d

This Thursday!!!

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BIG NEW YORKERS AGAINST ICE rally at 6 pm, Thursday, 9/25 at Foley Square in NYC, friends! Please do come through!

If you've never been to a rally, why not start here? It's 2025 and it's time. We all gotta stand up for all of us.

Graphic reading "New Yorkers Against ICE / 6 pm * 9/25 * Foley Square" "Bring pots and pans." Image shows a pen and ink drawing of a group of protestors holding signs that read NEW YORK FOR ALL! NO TROOPS IN OUR CITIES! and ICE OUT OF NY.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 17d

“Fascism is not new. It wears a new dress, buys new boots—but it can only reproduce fear, denial, and the loss of will to fight.”

Toni Morrison’s timeless warning on fascism & censorship still rings out today.

inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Illustrated cover with two women in front of a window, one thoughtful and the other with a defiant look. Text: "Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship."

Text describing June Jordan and Toni Morrison's involvement in a group of Black women writers in NYC, addressing oppression and liberation.

Illustration of a hand writing in a notebook, which appears to be on fire, set against a red background. The image is overlaid on fiery flames, conveying urgency and intensity. Text below discusses the erosion of public spaces and services, highlighting the struggle for freedom and resistance against silence.

Text titled "Peril" by Toni Morrison discusses authoritarian regimes suppressing dissenting writers through control, censorship, and fear. In the background, blurred barbed wire conveys restriction and oppression. The tone is critical and thought-provoking.

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Popular Democracy in Action🎙 @popdemocaction.bsky.social · 22d

Our schools and families are under attack.⁠
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The proposed federal budget slashes $12 billion from education and guts programs like Title I, after-school care, and teacher training.

It also puts 18 million kids’ meals at risk.⁠

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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 22d

🏳️⚧️We’re kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month by celebrating our resiliently beautiful Queer Latinx communities! 🫶

We are GRATEFUL to all the community members, panelists & organizations who participated & who continue to show up for our people!

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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 23d

🏘VICTORY! Tarrytown opts into #GoodCause with the strongest tenant protections possible.

It will give power back to tenants by enabling them to fight for the living conditions they deserve, and protecting them from exorbitant rent increases, often used as unofficial eviction notices.

¡Sí se pudo!

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VOCAL-NY (Voices of Community Activists and Leaders) @vocal-ny.bsky.social · 24d

Congress has already cut SNAP and Medicaid — now they’re setting their sights on housing and homeless assistance. These programs keep people housed and alive! More cuts will push more people into homelessness. #StopTheFederalCuts

Contact your rep today: endhomelessness.org/action/act-n...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24d

This event was FANTASTIC. Huge high five to @nywfp.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social Popular Democracy @jayapal.house.gov @mariajstephan.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social @velazquez.house.gov and EVERYONE who showed up! Photos to follow!

Rep. Pramila Jayapal laughs while adjusting her mic at the Resistance Lab event at Brooklyn Bowl.

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United for a New Economy - UNE @unecolorado.bsky.social · 27d

Earlier this week, UNE members joined @popdemoc.bsky.social in DC. While there, members met with representatives from Colorado, told their stories, and made clear what drastic cuts to housing programs would mean for their communities.

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · 29d

They want:
🚫 411k families evicted
🚫 Elders in unsafe homes
🚫 Disabled folks pushed into the militarized streets
All to line billionaire landlord wallets + fund ICE and private prisons
Join us to say NO TO HOUSING CUTS!

#StopCutsToHousing #StopCutsToHUD

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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tomorrow: We're working to stop the worst of Trump's spending bill. Join us and our friends at @popdemoc.bsky.social and @legaldefensefund.bsky.social to learn and strategize: www.mobilize.us/fww/event/83...

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Stand UP Alaska | Alaska Civics Channel @standupalaska.bsky.social · Sep 4

Trump tells Lies
People Die

That's all you really need to know. Repealing the entire Big BUGLY Bill is the only way. #StopCutsToHealthcare #RememberNextNovember

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Sep 8

The money exists to resist authoritarianism and build something better. What’s missing isn’t resources—it’s imagination.

Read Karundi Williams’ new op-ed:
forgeorganizing.org/article/we-s...

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · Aug 20

They wouldn’t be coming for us this hard if they’d already won.
We still have time to FIGHT BACK and stop their agenda!

It’s not over until we make it over.

Popdemoc.org/fightback ⬅️ sign up here!

National FIGHT BACK Call · Popular Democracy

Join us for our National FIGHT BACK Call! On the agenda: - Get trained in EMPOWER, a powerful relational organizing tool that can multiply your reach - Learn about which districts and members of Co...

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · Aug 20

MAGA is building the Klan 2.0.
- Want to remove women’s right to vote
- End marriage equality
- Put troops and masked agents in our streets to racially profile and terrorize us

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · Jul 30

New merch drop: Say It With Your Chest! ❤️‍🔥

✊🏿 Fuck ICE | Chinga La Migra
✊🏾 Anti-Billionaire Social Club
✊🏽 It's Not You, It's Capitalism

100% of proceeds go to support grassroots organizing in Black and Brown working-class communities. Shop the drop 👉 popdemoc.org/sayitwithyourchest

Say It With Your Chest

Say It With Your Chest is a bold and unapologetic campaign by Popular Democracy that turns our values into public displays of resistance. Every purchase helps us build grassroots power.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · Jul 23

Jen Flynn Walker: We've been organizing people on Medicaid and people who rely on the ACA for years now. They're really facing the reality that they are in danger of losing all of their healthcare access, and it is not hyperbolic to say that if they lose their health care coverage, they will die.

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · Jul 10

The 14th Amendment changed the course of American history. It guarantees #BirthrightCitizenship, equal protection & due process.

Now Trump, billionaires & extremist lawmakers want to dismantle it. We won’t stay silent.

Take action and become a Defender 👉popdemoc.org/defendthe14th

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Shelterforce @shelterforce.bsky.social · Jun 25

Tenants nationwide rallied last week against federal housing cuts—demanding action on evictions, rent hikes, and unsafe homes.

📸 Big thanks to @NOLA Lens for the powerful photos.
🔗 bit.ly/45o47OF

@nilhc.org | @pplsaction.bsky.social | @popdemoc.bsky.social‬

#TenantPower #HousingJustice

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · Jun 20

We’re living under billionaire rule. While we fight to stay fed, housed, and healthy, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Stephen Schwarzman CEO are rewriting the rules to get richer.

Our new report “Trump’s Corporate Oligarchs” breaks it down. Get the receipts!

👉 popdemoc.org/trumps-oligarchs

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · Jun 19

They call it a big, beautiful bill.
We call it a death sentence.

✂️ Medicaid
✂️ SNAP
✂️ Disability benefits
✂️ Reproductive care

📍JUNE 25 | 11AM | DIRKSEN 215
We’re showing up. Loud. Together.

popdemoc.org/kill-the-bill-dc

Can’t come? Text CARE to 25463

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · Jun 11

"What they didn’t understand is that I had already been arrested.

My mind, heart, and imagination had been arrested by this idea that we are much better than this and that the wealthiest country on the planet can afford to provide basic healthcare to all of its citizens." - @warnock.senate.gov

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Popular Democracy 🎙️ @popdemoc.bsky.social · Jun 11

"In order to pay for the tax breaks for the billionaires and large corporations, they're going to war against low and working people." - @sanders.senate.gov

#CareNotCuts
#ProtectMedicaid

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