College football pretends it’s about boola-boola, but it’s really all about ka-ching ka-ching.
Read moreEconomic Justice
Combating inequality means both lifting up and building power at the bottom, and breaking up concentration of wealth and power at the top. That’s why we work at the intersection of economic and racial justice through projects designed to build leadership and self-empowerment of black workers, immigrant workers, and low-wage workers, youth and families affected by incarceration, along with projects aiming to reverse the rules that criminalize poor people of color, and projects fighting to ensure that the wealthy and Wall Street corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
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Wendy’s ‘Improved’ Burger
The company spent two and a half years and millions of dollars of corporate poking and prodding to “improve” a burger that doesn’t compare to a backyard cookout.
Read moreThe Environment Could Use Some Rich Friends
The Earth needs a well-heeled lobby to survive all this pillaging.
Read moreDoubt’s Shadow
RIP, Troy Davis.
Read moreThe Lineup: Week of Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2011
Matias Ramos describes his latest immigration ordeal.
Read moreMIA: Obama’s New Common-Sense Immigration Policy
I learned the hard way that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field offices are actually becoming even more ruthless than before.
Read moreBlocking Palestinian Statehood
The Obama administration looks particularly bad, having spent so much diplomatic energy throughout the Arab Spring pledging to realign U.S. interests in the Middle East with American values of freedom, justice, and dignity.
Read moreAmerica’s Government Contracting Bonanza Bilks Taxpayers
On average, Uncle Sam spends nearly twice as much when the government outsources a job as it would if it just hired another “expensive” federal worker.
Read moreThe Drug War Spreads the Bloodbath South
It’s time to re-cast U.S. drug policy in Mexico and Guatemala and stop supporting killing methods that end up aiding drug traffickers.
Read moreIt’s Class Warfare, All Right
The rich guys are winning–in a rout.
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