Victory against corporate personhood!

With your help, NYC took a stand against Citizens United. Now we’re launching a campaign to end corporate control of end corporate control of elections in New York State. But we need your help.

Raise N.Y.’s minimum wage

This week, WFP executive director Dan Cantor and United N.Y. executive director Camille Rivera published an op-ed in the Albany Times-Union, calling for the state go give 700,000 people a raise. An increased minimum wage can help boost the economy and lift thousands of New Yorkers out of poverty.
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Imagine what it would be like to [...]

Dan Cantor’s Statement on Tax Reform Deal

For Immediate Release
6 December, 2011
Contact:
Joe Dinkin, jdinkin@workingfamilies.org
STATEMENT FROM DAN CANTOR, WFP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ON TAX REFORM DEAL:
“Governor Cuomo and Speaker Silver have taken a genuine step toward a fairer tax system and a more robust economy. Today’s agreement, by any measure, is a principled and historic accomplishment as it establishes again the importance of progressive [...]

Last day to stop hydrofracking

We’ve been fighting against fracking for two years. We’ve won a temporary moratorium. But now it’s coming down to the wire.
The Department of Environmental Conservation has written their draft environmental impact report. If approved, it would open the door to allow the frackers to start drilling. Once the drills start – and once those chemicals [...]

Thank you from the Progressive Caucus

After Wednesday’s wonderful City Council resolution against corporate personhood, Councilmembers Melissa Mark-Viverito and Brad Lander, the co-chairs of the Progressive Caucus, sent us this thank you note for you.
It’s not every day we get validation that our online petitions and email campaigns actually matter. But clearly they do (check out [...]

Dan Cantor discusses OWS’s next steps on CNN

Dan Cantor appeared on CNN’s American Morning today to talk about the next steps for Occupy Wall Street.
“Of course it’s the power of their ideas that has captured the day, to a degree,” he said. “But we live in a society where money often trumps speech. … So it’s wrong to say it’s merely the [...]

Bad pizza, worse policies

Matthew Cain here, online organizer at the Working Families Party.
Over the last month or so, seeing GOP frontrunner Herman Cain drag the “Cain” name through the mud has been tough. But today, he crossed the line by weighing in on New York state politics.
He came out for a giant tax cut [...]

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  • Last day to stop hydrofracking
    January 11th, 2012

    We’ve been fighting against fracking for two years. We’ve won a temporary moratorium. But now it’s coming down to the wire.
    The Department of Environmental Conservation has written their draft environmental impact report. If approved, it would open the door to allow the frackers to start drilling. Once the drills start – and once those chemicals [...]

  • Thank you from the Progressive Caucus
    January 7th, 2012

    After Wednesday’s wonderful City Council resolution against corporate personhood, Councilmembers Melissa Mark-Viverito and Brad Lander, the co-chairs of the Progressive Caucus, sent us this thank you note for you.
    It’s not every day we get validation that our online petitions and email campaigns actually matter. But clearly they do (check out [...]

  • Raise N.Y.’s minimum wage
    January 5th, 2012

    This week, WFP executive director Dan Cantor and United N.Y. executive director Camille Rivera published an op-ed in the Albany Times-Union, calling for the state go give 700,000 people a raise. An increased minimum wage can help boost the economy and lift thousands of New Yorkers out of poverty.
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    Imagine what it would be like to [...]

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