America's unions could be dismantled. Progressives must unite now | Tom Steyer

It is time to raise our unified voice for a positive agenda that puts the American people ahead of corporate profits

During the March on Washington in 1963, Dr Martin Luther King Jr spoke about "the fierce urgency of now", underscoring the immediate and pressing need to take strong and immediate action to advance civil rights. It couldn't wait. Today, communities across the country find themselves in a similar moment, fighting politicians who are hellbent on enacting Donald Trump's noxious agenda of inequality and injustice.

The most recent incarnation: a supreme court case, Janus v AFSCME Council 31, intent on stripping away the rights of working people to join together in their unions, an attack on a basic American right.