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Update on Tesla

by PLANc0mmsEconomic Justice, Environmental Justice September 11, 2014Comments are Disabled

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Overview, Its time to call your legislators!” _builder_version=”3.0.51″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] Its time to call your legislators! The special legislative session in Carson City began yesterday and will continue at least through tonight as lawmakers consider a massive, $1.25 billion corporate subsidy package to entice …

Tesla

by PLANc0mmsEconomic Justice, Environmental Justice September 10, 2014One Comment

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Please find below the letter we’re sending today to lawmakers as they begin the special session to consider the massive corporate subsidy package to seal the Tesla deal for Nevada. I’ll be going to Carson City today and would like to know if you think PLAN’s on track with …

BREAKING: Fast Food Workers go on strike SEPTEMBER 4th

by PLANc0mmsUncategorized September 2, 2014Comments are Disabled

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Governor Sandoval: Investigate corporations that are ripping off Nevada’s low wage workers

by PLANc0mmsUncategorized May 20, 2014Comments are Disabled

Nevada Inc., the cabal of big corporate lobbyists who consider our state’s public resources as their private piggy bank, is at it again. This time, they were caught cheating the lowest-paid workers in the state out of millions of dollars. Voters overwhelmingly approved increasing the state’s minimum wage to a dollar above the federal amount …

PLAN’s 20th Anniversary Gala

by PLANc0mmsUncategorized March 3, 2014Comments are Disabled

The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada cordially invites you to join us,Thursday, April 17th to celebrate PLAN’s 20 years of building Progressive Power in Nevada with keynote speaker, US Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid. Thursday, April 17, 2014 The Center | 401 S. Maryland Pkwy. Las Vegas, NV 89101 Doors Open: 6:30PM | Dinner Served: 7:00PM | …

What the Nevada mining industry doesn’t want you to know

by PLANc0mmsUncategorized January 16, 2014Comments are Disabled

Last night we hosted a community forum about the mining industry with local experts to educate southern Nevadans about the impacts mining has on our environment. Even though the event was in Las Vegas, the Elko Daily Free Press announced the event on the front page of their paper. Today in a letter to the editor, …

Come Out for Health Care!

by PLANc0mmsCivic Engagement, Economic Justice, Legislature October 11, 2013Comments are Disabled

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.0.51″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] Celebrate National Coming Out Day with Out2Enroll, a collaborate effort of the Center for American Progress, the Federal Agencies Project, and the Sellers Dorsey Foundation to educate the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender communities about the options now available under the Affordable Care Act. The …

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Drag for DREAMs – Scholarship Application!

by PLANc0mmsUncategorized May 21, 2013Comments are Disabled

On Thursday, May 16th the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada’s Uniting Communities program and the Gay and Lesbian Center of Southern Nevada hosted Drag for DREAMs, a drag show fundraiser for undocumented students in Nevada. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a program announced by President Obama last June. It allows undocumented students (known …

Will ‘Stop and Swab’ Replace Stop and Frisk?’ DNA Profiling and Race

by PLANc0mmsUncategorized April 27, 2013Comments are Disabled

Today is national DNA Day. It marks the day on which James Watson and Francis Crick along with Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin published their papers elucidating the structure of human DNA. 10 years ago today also marks the day that scientists working on the Human Genome Project announced that their efforts were nearly complete. …

Nevada Mining Fact Sheet

by PLANc0mmsMining February 5, 2013April 13, 20205 Comments

Nevada Mining Fact Sheet Sweetheart Tax Deals Senate Joint Resolution 15, which passed in the 2011 session, would allow Nevada voters to decide whether mining’s tax loopholes should continue to be chiseled in the stone of the state constitution. Currently legislators have no flexibility and cannot adjust the Net Proceeds on Minerals Tax based on …

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