Guaranteed higher wages was a result of citizens working in their communities to make local governments accountable to them
Nick Licata
Nick Licata is author of Becoming A Citizen Activist, and has served 5 terms on the Seattle City Council, named progressive municipal official of the year by The Nation, and is founding board chair of Local Progress, a national network of 1,000 progressive municipal officials.
Donald Trump’s admiration for authoritarian government leaders, who obstruct or dismantle democratic institutions in their state, has been consistent since taking office
Because the Dems did not have 2 Key Allies
Mona Hanna-Attisha’s account of the disaster reads both as a detective story and as an exposé of government corruption in her book “What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance and Hope in an American City.”
The legacy of the underground press was to question all authority and seek answers based on independently verifiable knowledge and not on what was being provided by those in power