Progress Michigan is a first-of-its-kind organization. Our mission is to provide a strong credible voice that holds public officials and government accountable, assists in the promotion of progressive ideas and uses state-of-the-art web based new media to creatively build grassroots support for progressive ideas.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 23, 2011CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski, (517) 999-3646 or (248) 321-4579 LANSING – As legislators prepare to pass Michigan’s FY2011-2012 budget, state employees are pointing lawmakers toward innovative cost-savings, efficiency, and accountability solutions that could save tens of millions in taxpayer dollars in this fiscal year and beyond. State employees’ New Solutions…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Leigh Fifelski Thursday, May 19, 2011 (517) 999-3646 Lansing – Progress Michigan released today a digital video, Electric Vehicles: Made in Michigan, as a companion to the Michigan League of Conservation Voters report also released today. Through interviews with a line-worker building the Chevy Volt at…
Public employees fight back as Gov. Snyder pushes drastic cuts to pay for huge corporate special interest tax breaks LANSING – Today Progress Michigan and the We Are the People coalition launched IMakeMichiganWork.org, a new website that showcases the personal stories of Michigan’s teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers. With Lansing politicians pushing a…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, April 28, 2011Contact: Leigh Fifelski, 517-999-3646 LANSING – Progress Michigan today criticized the House for approving a budget plan that raises taxes on low-income working families, seniors and others to pay for a $1.73-billion tax break for rich corporations. Six Republicans joined all 43 Democrats in opposing the unfair budget, and MIRS…
For Immediate Release: April 8, 2011 Contact: Leigh Fifelski: 517.999.3646 Snyder plans to eliminate child tax credit, investment exemption for seniors LANSING – Citizens groups today spotlighted tax increases in Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget plan that would negatively impact millions of ordinary Michigan families, including seniors and families with young children. “You don’t need to…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski Tuesday, March 29, 2011 (517) 999-3646 Right-Wing Front Launches Effort to Silence Free Speech, Strangle Middle-Class Fight Mackinac Center FOIA targeting academics could stifle dialogue on Michigan’s future LANSING – Groups across Michigan today warned citizens about an effort by the Mackinac…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Contact: Leigh Fifelski, 517-999-3646 LANSING – Citizens group Progress Michigan today launched “Value for Michigan CEOs,” an online Monopoly-themed campaign to debunk “Value for Michigan,” a Facebook front for the Snyder Administration set up by partisan political operatives. Progress Michigan’s “Value for Michigan CEOs” campaign includes a Facebook…
*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *** Monday, March 14, 2011 Contact: Leigh Fifelski, (517) 999-3646 Coalition of citizens send message statewide, urge rejection of budget MARSHALL – Citizens and groups from a range of backgrounds today delivered a message across the state, including in Calhoun County, warning that Governor Rick Snyder’s proposed budget endangers Michigan’s families…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 10, 2011 Contact: Leigh Fifelski, 517-999-3646 LANSING – Citizens group Progress Michigan today launched a petition designed to force Congress to pass a federal budget and avoid a devastating government shutdown, by docking legislators’ pay during a shutdown. “Politicians in Washington should live by the same rules as the rest…
Contact: David Holtz, Progress Michigan, 517-999-3646 2,000 Voters and Workers Rally at Captiol, Urge Lawmakers to Stop the Attacks (Lansing)—More than 2,000 workers and voters assembled at the Captiol Tuesday to protest the Emergency Manager bills under consideration in the state Senate, saying they attack two fundamental rights Michigan citizens hold dear – the right…
