Below are the initial signers. (Signers endorse as individuals.)
Roger Hickey
Co-Director, Campaign for America’s Future
Roger Hickey
Co-Director, Campaign for America’s Future
Dr. Janet Dewart Bell
Activist, Scholar, and Author
Dr. Janet Dewart Bell
Activist, Scholar & Author, Blackbirds Singing: Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Robert Borosage
Co-Director, Campaign for America’s Future
Robert Borosage
Co-Director, Campaign for America’s Future
Larry Cohen
Former President, CWA; Board Chair, Our Revolution
Larry Cohen
Former President, Communications Workers of America & Founding Chair, Our Revolution
Rebecca Adamson
Indigenous Economist & Founder, First Peoples
Gar Alperovitz
Co-Founder, Democracy Collaborative
Gar Alperovitz
Co-Founder, Democracy Collaborative
Nancy Altman
President, Social Security Works; Author
Nancy Altman
President, Social Security Works & Author, Road to Medicare for All: A Call to Action
William Arnone
Former CEO, National Academy of Social Insurance
Dean Baker
Senior Distinguished Fellow, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Dean Baker
Senior Distinguished Fellow, Center for Economic and Policy Research
David Bonior
Former US Representative (D-MI) & Former Democratic Whip (1991-2002)
Heather Booth
Democracy Partners
Julie Burton
President & CEO, Women’s Media Center
Julie Burton
President & CEO, Women’s Media Center
John Cavanagh
Senior Advisor, Institute for Policy Studies
Director of the Institute for Policy Studies, John Cavanagh is the co-author of 12 books and numerous articles on a wide range of social and economic issues. He also is a founding fellow of the Transnational Institute, and sits on the boards of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center, the International Forum on Globalization, International Labor Rights Forum, the Fund for Constitutional Government, and the New Economy Coalition.
Cavanagh worked as an economist for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-1981) and the World Health Organization (1981-1982). He served on the Civil Society Advisory Committee of the UN Development Program (2000-2012).
John Cavanagh
Senior Advisor, Institute for Policy Studies
Frank Clemente
Former Director, Americans for Tax Fairness
Chuck Collins
Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Inequality Program
Chuck Collins is an expert on U.S. inequality and the racial wealth divide and author of several books, including 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It. Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is also co-founder of Wealth for the Common Good, a network of business leaders, high-income households and partners working together to promote shared prosperity and fair taxation.
Chuck Collins
Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Inequality Program
Robert Creamer
Democracy Partners
Alan S. Davis
President, The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund and Director of its WhyNot Initiative; Founder, Excessive Wealth Institute and TGB (Tax the Greedy Billionaires)
Richard Eskow
Writer & Zero Hour Host
Richard Eskow
Writer & Zero Hour Host
Gerald Epstein
Co-Director, PERI, Prof of Economics UMass Amherst; Director, Game Changers Project
Paco Fabian
Director of Campaigns, Our Revolution
Jeff Faux
Founder, Economic Policy Institute
Jeff Faux
Founder, Economic Policy Institute
Jane Fonda
Actor & Activist
Jane Fonda
Actor; Activist; Committee for the First Amendment; Jane Fonda Climate PAC
Heather Gautney
Author
Heather Gautney
Author, The New Power Elite
Joseph Geevarghese
Executive Director, Our Revolution
Joseph Geevarghese
Executive Director, Our Revolution
Eddie S. Glaude
Professor, Princeton University; Author
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Professor, Princeton University & Author, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and It’s Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Nan Grogan Orrock
Georgia State Senator; President, Women Legislators’ Lobby
Nan Grogan Orrock
Georgia State Senator & President, Women Legislators’ Lobby
Ken Grossinger
Strategist & Author, Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together
Darrick Hamilton
University Professor; Founding Director, Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School; AFL-CIO Chief Economist
Susan Harley
Managing Director, Public Citizen’s Congress Watch
Laura Harris
Executive Director, Americans for Indian Opportunity
Jim Hightower
Host, Hightower Lowdown; Former Texas Ag Commissioner; Member, Our Revolution Board
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and New York Times best-selling author Jim Hightower has spent four decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought to Be — consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. Twice elected Texas Agricultural Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.
Jim Hightower
Host, Hightower Lowdown; Former Texas Ag Commissioner;
Member, Our Revolution Board
Bob King
UAW & AFT Local 5297
Bob King
UAW & AFT Local 5297
Alex Lawson
Executive Director, Social Security Works
Thea Lee
Former Labor Dept. Deputy Undersecretary for International Labor Affairs; Former President, Economic Policy Institute
Thea Lee is the former President of the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions. Lee came to EPI from the AFL-CIO, a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions that represent 12.5 million working men and women, where she served as deputy chief of staff. At the AFL-CIO, she built a long track record of conducting rigorous economic research, overseeing an ambitious policy agenda, and helping steer a large organization through change. Lee joined the AFL-CIO in 1997 as chief international economist, then assumed the role of policy director before becoming deputy chief of staff.
Lee has spent her career advocating on behalf of working families in national policy debates on issues such as wage inequality, workers’ rights, and fair trade. She is co-author of The Field Guide to the Global Economy, and has authored numerous publications on the North American Free Trade Agreement, the impact of international trade on U.S. wage inequality, and the domestic steel and textile industries.
Thea Lee
Former Labor Dept. Deputy Undersecretary for International Labor Affairs & Former President, Economic Policy Institute
Mike Lux
President, American Family Voices
Nancy MacLean
Author, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America &
Professor Emeritus at Duke
Karen Nussbaum
Founding Director, Working America
Karen Nussbaum
Founding Director, Working America
Larry Ottinger
Senior Advisor, Alan S. Davis & WhyNot Initiative
Manuel Pastor
Professor of Sociology & Director of the USC Equity Research Institute
Manuel Pastor
Professor of Sociology & Director of the USC Equity Research Institute
Robert Pollin
Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute; Professor of Economics, UMass
Robert Pollin
Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute & Professor of Economics, UMass
Robert Reich
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Co-Founder, Inequality Media; Author
Robert Reich
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Co-Founder, Inequality Media; Author, Coming Up Short
Will Rice
Former staffer, Americans for Tax Fairness
Rashad Robinson
Social Justice Leader; Strategist; Author; Founder, Color of Change
Rashad Robinson serves as Executive Director of ColorOfChange, the nation’s largest online civil rights organization. Under Rashad’s leadership, ColorOfChange has been at the forefront of issues ranging from fighting for justice for Trayvon Martin, to battling attempts to suppress the Black vote, to ending Pat Buchanan’s tenure as an MSNBC analyst.
He has appeared in hundreds of news stories, interviews, and political discussions through outlets including ABC, BET, CNN, MSNBC, OWN, the New York Times, Fast Company and NPR. For the past four years, Washington Post’s The Root named Rashad to “The Root 100,” a list of influential African Americans under 45-years old. He is also the proud recipient of the “Transforming America” award from Demos and the “Bayard Rustin Citizen Change” award from Americans for Democratic Action. He previously held leadership roles at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Right to Vote Campaign and FairVote.
Rashad Robinson
Social Justice Leader; Strategist; Author, From Presence to Power; Founder, Color of Change
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Ph.D.
Global Policy Solutions;
Author, RAGEism
Juliet B. Schor
Professor of Sociology, Boston College & Author: After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
Judy Scott
Legal Advisor, Labor Union
John Steiner
Social Impact Entrepreneur
Don Stillman
Former Director of Government and International Affairs, UAW
Margery Tabankin
Activist and Philanthropic Advisor
Margery Tabankin
Activist & Philanthropic Advisor
Zephyr Teachout
Fordham Law Professor & Author, Break ’em Up
Gloria Totten
Founder and President, Public Leadership Institute
Gloria Totten
Founder & President, Public Leadership Institute
Philippe Villers
Co-founder, Families USA; Founder, Computervision Corp, Automatix, Inc., and GrainPro
Philippe Villers is the co-founder of Families USA. In 1981, he and his wife founded the organization (initially called The Villers Foundation). He has served as its President and as a member of the Board of Directors since the inception of Families USA. He is deeply committed to Families USA’s mission of achieving universal access to high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans.
He currently also serves on the ACLU President’s Committee, Amnesty International’s USA Executive Directors Council, and on the Boards of Cambridge Innovations, Conflict Management Group, GrainPro, Inc., QuitNet, and Voxiva.
He was a founder of Computervision Corporation (a Fortune 500 company for many years), Automatix, Inc., and Cognition, Inc. and has been a guiding force in innovative and successful high-tech corporations for more than 25 years. Mr. Villers holds an AB with honors from Harvard and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.
Philippe Villers
Co-founder, Families USA, dedicated to universal, affordable health care for all Americans; Founder, Computervision Corp, Automatix, Inc., and GrainPro
Dorian Warren
President, Center for Community Change
Dorian T. Warren is President of the Center for Community Change, and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. A progressive scholar, organizer and media personality, Warren has worked to advance racial, economic and social justice for over two decades. He previously taught for over a decade at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, where he was Co-Director of the Columbia University Program on Labor Law and Policy. Warren also worked at MSNBC where he was a Contributor and Host and Executive Producer of “Nerding Out” on MSNBC’s digital platform.
He currently serves on several boards including Working Partnerships USA, the Workers Lab, the National Employment Law Project, and The Nation Magazine Editorial Board. As a commentator on public affairs, Warren has appeared regularly on television and radio including NBC Nightly News, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, BET, BBC, NPR, Bloomberg, & NY1, among other outlets. He has also written for The Nation, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Salon, Washington Post, New York Times, Medium, Ebony.com, and Boston Review.
Dorian Warren
President, Center for Community Change
Joan C. Williams
Distinguished Professor of Law (Emerita); Director, Equality Action Center; Author, Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
Billy Wimsatt
Founder & Executive Director, Movement Voter Project
Billy Wimsatt
Founder & Executive Director, Movement Voter Project
James Zogby
Founder, Arab American Institute
James Zogby
Founder, Arab American Institute