The 500 poets participating in Split This Rock Poetry Festival come from all walks of life and all levels of education and training.
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Economic 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.
Latest Work
Consumers Need to Know about Those Newfangled Ingredients
Between 70 and 80 percent of the processed foods Americans eat contain genetically modified ingredients.
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Syria’s Systematic Torture
Concerted action by the international community appears to be the only recourse
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What’s Good for the CEO May Be Bad for Business
Today’s corporate elites should stop pushing for austerity for the many and prosperity for the few and embrace Henry Ford’s strategy of shared prosperity.
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I Don’t Like Ike’s Memorial
If you’re going to do something that big, don’t put it on the National Mall.
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Standing Up For Common Sense
Keene, New Hampshire has no crime that would warrant rolling out a tank.
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Our Health Care Racket
The purpose of America’s health care industry is to provide cozy income to the few at the top while abusing the poorly paid health aides at the bottom and consigning vast swaths of the population to inadequate care.
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Syria’s Butcher
It’s a family tradition.
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Happy Days Here Again, 21st Century-Style
Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession’s deep pockets, stunning new income data show, are bucking the historical tide.
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The Lineup: Week of March 12-18, 2012
Martha Burk weighs in on Rush Limbaugh’s ill-timed attack on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke and its aftermath.
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Reports
The Other Side of the Storm
What Do Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of Covid-19 Teach Us About Building a Resilient Care Infrastructure?
Bay State Billionaires
Massachusetts billionaires’ wealth surges 46 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Executive Excess 2022
The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs.
REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs
How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality
Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.