If we want to build up a green manufacturing economy, we should directly invest in it, not plow more money into military spending.
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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
Washington’s Strange Nuclear Bedfellows
The United States, as the world’s undisputed nuclear weapons superpower, should finally ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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Avoiding the Next Arctic Oil Disaster
Exxon’s Valdez disaster had ruinous and enduring impacts.
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Grand Old Pedagogy
We’re a diverse nation of many religions and each has the same rights as any other group, including the right to be left alone.
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Down and Out on Wall Street
We should all be as broke as they are.
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Better Public Schools Require a Stronger Safety Net
School segregation by class is the norm in the United States.
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Nuclear Alert
The red alert from Iran, with some context.
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Corporate Campaign Spending: They Get What They Pay for
For America’s corporations, it pays to get involved in elections. This might be good for business, but it’s bad for politics.
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The Lineup: Week of March 19-25, 2012
Jim Hightower lauds the residents of Keene, New Hampshire who don’t want their town to get its own tank.
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The Humanity of Poetry
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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Reports
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
Greater Birmingham, AL, has experienced a resurgence in economic growth and civic engagement. Yet the benefits of this prosperity are not widely shared.
IPS Brief: Mining Companies Use Trade Agreements to Attack Indigenous Rights in Colombia and Beyond
With our allies, we’ve prepared a legal brief to support the Wayúu people’s rights to water, health, and food sovereignty in Colombia.
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
Our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy.
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?