Government policies and spending primarily support industrialized agriculture and the giant farms and corporations that profit from it.
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.
Latest Work
Congress: Listen to Lt. Col. Daniel Davis
The 17-year Army veteran risked his career by speaking out about the Afghanistan War.
Read moreRiding on the Wrong Track
Stop the world; I want to get off.
Read moreCongress Opts to Keep Poisoning Children
Lead poisoning is entirely preventable.
Read moreOff Our Backs
I know how you guys feel.
Read moreEnergy: Too Important to Leave to Corporations
In the United States, profits rule while the environment takes a back seat.
Read moreLetter from Kenya: An On-the-Ground Take on Kony 2012
The issues addressed and distorted in that video may seem like old news in the United States, but they are going to be pressing and current for many years to come for Uganda and its neighbors.
Read moreHealth Care Q & A
Not all the arguments about the Affordable Care Act take place in the Supreme Court.
Read moreThe Lineup: Week of March 26-April 1, 2012
Salvatore Babones debunks Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare concerns
Read moreRyan’s Medicare Hot Air
It’s simply not time to hit the panic button.
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