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Category Archives: News
SGK: WTF?
Unless you have been oblivious to the news of the past 48 hours, you know that breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen — which holds a”race for the cure” in New York City every year — has ended its partnership with Planned Parenthood and will not renew their grant, which provided access to breast cancer screenings for women across the country. Komen claims this decision has nothing to do with politics, but the public isn’t buying it. Their… Read More
“In America, We Are Greater Together”
From WhiteHouse.gov
More than a century after Teddy Roosevelt outlined a vision for a “New Nationalism” in a Kansas town called Osawatomie, President Obama visited the same community to talk about what he called a make-or-break moment of the middle class.
He described how the world has undergone an economic transformation unlike any other in our collective history — and how that change has upended our expectations of social mobility in this country. Where professionals ranging from factory workers
Tagged economy, President Obama
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NYC Says Frack No!
Hundreds of hydrofracking opponents packed the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Wednesday night to speak out against the dangerous practice. As NY1 reports, the vast majority of those in attendance spoke against allowing hydrofracking in upstate New York.
The Manhattan Young Democrats have been vocal in our opposition to this practice for years. Click HERE to read the MYD Environmental Committee’s 2009 policy paper on the issue.
While it is heartening to see so many New Yorkers voice… Read More
Tagged environment, hydrofracking
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Experts And Council Members Debate The Living Wage Bill
In was an on again, off again light rain that fell as we all stood on line to get into yesterday’s city council meeting on the living wage bill. Movement slowed to a snail’s pace when the space for visitors inside the chamber filled up long before the meeting even began. Though despite the wait and the weather, neither factors greatly deterred the overwhelming majority of those who came in support of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act… Read More
Tagged bloomberg, city council, developers, living wage, Quinn, RWDSU, wage inequality
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Special Commentary: The March Towards Change
The following was contributed by MYD member Jamie Ansorge:
[Tuesday] morning my interview with National Public Radio aired across the country. In it I advocated for those involved in the protest movement to call for a tax increase on wealthy individuals and corporations – something similar to Obama’s “Buffet Rule” and the Millionaire’s Tax here in New York State to pay for social and job programs. It’s time for all of us to pay our fair share towards a prosperous… Read More
