Fran Quigley

Elected officials need to spend some time in eviction courts, witnessing first-hand the real tragedies that happen there every day. If they sat where we do, I think they would seize the opportunity to embrace housing as a fully realized human right.

"The PRO Act is essential in strengthening workers' basic right to organize: as such it is a covenant, a sacred trust among workers to improve their lives and working conditions. It deserves the support of all people of faith."

The movement to connect the socialist cause with religious beliefs in the human right to shelter, healthcare, and necessities owes a great debt to many women.

"Socialism, or something like it, is the settled conclusion of a society that values democracy."

"We were always taught...that the foundation of Islam is an obligation to ensure that everyone’s basic needs are met.”

Existing law is crystal clear that the government can step in to lower drug prices in order to serve the public interest. 

By taking the vaccine industry into full public ownership, we can provide an internationalized response to this and future pandemics that properly recognizes vaccines as a global public good.

 At this writing, President Trump appears to be resisting calls to use his federal powers to order private industry to increase production of necessary supplies, although the U.S. has done exactly that many times in wartime and during other crises.