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Report: Right To Root
Conceptual Designs for Equitable Development in Portland, Oregon
Celebrating The End of Slavery — With One Big Asterisk
Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in America. But with over 2 million of us behind bars, has it really ended — or just transformed?
Why We Fight About Pride Parades
Can the queer community support members who suffer state violence or corporate exploitation? That’s what the pride debates come down to.
We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
We should be supporting the small farmers who sell at farmers markets, not the corporate giants that hurt our health and environment.
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I’m Tired of Hearing From Bill Clinton
Why We Fight About Pride Parades
World to Refugees: Go to Hell
We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
Celebrating The End of Slavery — With One Big Asterisk
Why We Still Need Pride Parades
Inside the Heated Battle Over D.C.'s Sub-Minimum Tipped Wage
The Poor People's Campaign Goes to Congress
Reports
Report: CEO-Worker Pay Ratios in the Banking Industry
Report: How Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2017
Report: The Poor People's Campaign, 50 Years Later
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May 13 @ 6:00 pm - June 23 @ 10:00 am at Various locations listedJoin A National Call for Moral Revival that is uniting tens of thousands of people across the country to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality.
Author Events: The Case for a Maximum Wage
June 26 @ 8:00 am - July 24 @ 5:00 pm at Various Venues Around Washington DCDeep digging discussions and book signing with IPS analyst Sam Pizzigati about his book on how egalitarians worldwide are demonstrating that fair income ratios between rich and poor could be both economically viable and politically practical.
Author Event: Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
June 29 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Politics & ProseAuthor Alissa Quart, in conversation with author and IPS board member Barbara Ehrenreich will will discuss and sign her new book that "anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope."
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