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Submitted by: Corie Tanida, Project Coordinator, Common Cause Hawaii On Monday, May 13, 2013 Hawaii Public Radio and Common Cause Hawaii hosted a discussion group to review the 2013 legislative session, called The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.  It was also my first day on the job as Project Coordinator for Common Cause Hawaii. [...]

At the beginning of this legislative session, Common Cause Hawaii and 13 other local organizations asked new leadership in both houses to rein in various abuses of the legislative process by promulgating new legislative rules that would increase transparency and public confidence in the legislature. Based on results, we can assume that applying improved legislative [...]

We asked you what they’d tell President Obama to do to fix our democracy — and now we’ve shared your responses with the White House

Common Cause Massachusetts is proud to partner with the New Organizing Institute (NOI), ACLU Massachusetts, MassVOTE and others to host RootsCamp Massachusetts on April 6-7. RootsCamp is an open space “un-conference” for activists to share lessons learned, discuss best practices, and discover opportunities for collaboration. It’s an “un-conference” because there is no pre-set agenda; instead [...]

The news that Organizing for Action, President Obama’s new lobbying organization, plans to arrange meetings with the President for its top donors, is generating calls for some serious reforms in the organization.