Don’t bank on a new “green economy” to solve our climate challenges.
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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Low-Wage Nation
Poverty and inequality are threatening our democracy.
Read moreMaking the World Safer for the Next Bernie Madoff
Lawmakers are pushing a bill that would hand the oversight of investment advisers to an organization with an inherent conflict of interest.
Read moreRunning for Magician-in-Chief
Republicans are embracing a dangerous Marxist philosophy.
Read moreWisconsin’s Alien Seed
There can be no joy in the fact that money rules.
Read moreThe War on Drugs Is the Dumbest of Them All
We went through this exercise once before with Prohibition.
Read moreBroken Planet
Is there intelligent life on Earth?
Read moreBlogging the Rio+20 Earth Summit for the Rest of Us: What’s at Stake with the Green Economy
Simply obtaining measures to implement the commitments made 20 years ago would be better than creating any new corporate-driven initiatives or issuing yet more empty promises.
Read moreWhat Drives U.S. Policy in Central America?
On Al-Jazeera’s Inside Story roundtable discussion, IPSer Sanho Tree discusses how the U.S. State Department gets to play judge, jury, and executioner in Honduras.
Read moreThe Lineup: Week of June 11-17, 2012
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh explain why a Canadian company’s lawsuit against the government of El Salvador threatens democracy everywhere.
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