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We Can Fix the Nation’s Racial Wealth Gap
The divide is much bigger than most people suppose. It’s also fixable.
How Trade Agreements Stand in the Way of an International Green New Deal
To reduce emissions abroad, the U.S. must renegotiate its trade agreements.
Q+A with Lindsay Koshgarian on the US’ Abhorrent Military Budget
The United States is spending $750 billion on its war machine. That money should be going to food, education, health care, and shelter for working people.
Stop & Shop Workers End 11-Day Strike With a Tentative Agreement
Striking workers won backing from every corner of their community, from local rabbis preparing for Passover to placard-carrying toddlers.
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Q+A with Lindsay Koshgarian on the US' Abhorrent Military Budget
What’s Behind Bolton’s Attacks on the ‘Troika of Tyranny’?
The Roots of Economic Inequality and the Racial Wealth Divide
Gentrification Now Has More than Landlubbers Worried
Stop & Shop Workers End 11-Day Strike With a Tentative Agreement
How Trade Agreements Stand in the Way of an International Green New Deal
We Can Fix the Nation’s Racial Wealth Gap
Mueller Can’t Unrig the System, but Movements Can
Reports and Resources
Tax Day 2019: Where Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2018
Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide
Wall Street Bonuses and Gender and Race Pay Gaps
Sanctuary Cities Toolkit
Palestine & Social Justice: A Community Dialogue
April 25 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist ChurchA community discussion that will include background history of Palestine and Palestinians, US policy in the Middle East, its impact on Palestinian rights, what the different is and what's not about Trump's Middle East policy, and why we call Israeli policy towards the Palestinians "apartheid."
Film: Charm City
April 28 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm at Busboys & Poets – 14th & VA powerfully candid portrait of a group of police, citizens, community leaders, and government officials during three years of unparalleled violence in Baltimore, followed by a Q&A coordinated by IPS Board Chair Tope Folarin with Local Initiatives Support Corporation.
First Annual Marcus Raskin Award for Civic and Intellectual Courage
April 30 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm at James Madison Memorial Building, LIbrary of CongressRecognizing Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II for outstanding and brave leader in the fields Marc was passionate about, including peace, social reconstruction, art, and politics.
Taxing the (Very) Rich: Finding the Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder
June 25 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm at The Mayflower HotelA conference about the agenda geared towards combating inequality and raising living standards for the vast majority.
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