National People’s Action (NPA) is an activist group known for its practice of aggressive agitation tactics to advance “economic and radical justice.” ¹ Founded in 1972 by Methodist minister Shel Trap and Chicago-based activist Gale Cincotta, the NPA is also an umbrella organization of several state-based social change groups. ² In 2016, NPA, along with left-leaning groups USAction Education Fund and Alliance for a Just Society, merged to create the People’s Action Institute. ³ The organization signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal. ⁴

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