George Goehl
George Goehl is co-executive director of People's Action and People's Action Institute, a national organization of a million people in 30 states fighting for economic, environmental, racial, and gender justice.
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Views Wednesday, October 07, 2020 How Do You Flip Rural Trump Voters? Talk to Them. Much ink was spilled over “Trump Country” in the wake of 2016. Rural counties that helped elect President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 had seemingly switched over to Trump in 2016. At People’s Action, the grassroots organization I direct, many of us grew up in or live in rural commu... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 06, 2020 The Time Is NOW For The PRO Act To Protect Workers Jim Staus had one goal: To make the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) a better place to work. Jim worked hard, he got stellar reviews and he was proud of his job as a supply technician. But his pay was so low that one winter, he and his wife had to melt snow to flush their toilets... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Trump’s Re-election Strategy: Pit Us Against Each Other You would think after a white nationalist murdered 22 people and injured dozens more in El Paso, Donald Trump would lay off the hate, even just for a moment. Apparently he’s not capable. Or not willing. Whether it’s immigration raids, cutbacks on legal immigration, or attacking women of color in... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 29, 2018 Heartland Holds the Key to Winning in 2020 While the country was captivated on election night by insurgent campaigns led by Southerners like Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Beto O’Rourke, people in the America’s Heartland and the Rustbelt were preparing a message of their own. Two years after they sent Donald Trump to the White House,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 18, 2018 Trump’s Policy Agenda Is an All-Out War on Kids Donald Trump’s choice to separate migrant children from their parents unleashed a flood of outrage across the political spectrum. While he has been forced to step back from separating families at the border, the administration’s solution is to imprison children with their parents, and change laws... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 09, 2018 The Future of "American" Is Up To Us We should be skeptical of the motivation and messengers behind calls for civility. We hear people say that what is happening to migrants in the United States right now is un-American. I wish that were true. Sadly, American history is full of periods where children of color were routinely taken from... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 05, 2018 There’s an All-Out War on Kids, and Not Just on the Border Donald Trump’s choice to separate migrant children from their parents has unleashed a flood of outrage across the political spectrum. While the president has stepped back from separating families at the border, his solution is to imprison children with their parents, and change laws so he can hold... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 15, 2018 Why I’m Going to the Border for Father’s Day As more reports surface of children seeking asylum at our borders being separated from their parents, there has been much consideration of the impact and effect on children. As Father’s Day approaches, I can’t help but wonder how I would cope if my daughter was taken away from me. The thought of... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 22, 2017 We Can Take the Lead in Remaking America We remember well the sense of horror we felt at the beginning of 2017. There was a sickness deep in our stomachs at the very mention of the words “Trump administration,” not to mention what that administration planned to unleash: a border wall, evisceration of health care, a Muslim ban, the... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 24, 2017 Transforming the Possible Through Radical Imagination This is the text of opening remarks delivered Sunday, April 23, 2017, at the People’s Action founding convention in Washington, DC – “Rise Up: From Protest to Power.” David pulled a stone from his bag and slung it. And hit Goliath on the head. And he fell to the ground. We are gathered here tonight... Read more |