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
New Report Exposes Wall Street Lobby Against CEO Pay Reform
The requirement for companies to report incentive-based pay arrangements is under attack.
The Lineup: Week of July 18-24, 2011
Janet Redman addresses the relationship between increasingly harsh weather events and climate change.
Connecting Extreme Weather Dots Across the Map
Talking about the weather isn’t small talk any more.
Marching to Save Our Schools
Our kids have gotten the message: the test is all that matters.
Casino Crops
A global farm crash is looming.
Justice Department Gives Torturers a Pass
What will we say when other governments follow our example by providing immunity from prosecution to torturers?
Sleazy Corporate Holiday
You were right, Dad; they’re all in it together.
Massey Energy’s Man-Made Hell Hole
Republicans and a few coal-state Democrats have cynically blocked passage of tougher mine safety laws that would stop the murderous greed of coal profiteers.
Weather Extremists
Only an extremist would believe that extreme weather is caused by extreme human behavior.
Haiti, the Caribbean Sweatshop
The country’s economy leans on underpaid workers and remittances from its startlingly enterprising emigrants.