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
Debt Ceiling Kabuki
Trying to hold down the deficit by not raising the debt ceiling is like trying to balance your family budget by deciding not to pay the rent or your mortgage.
Tea Party Rebels Quickly Tamed
Faster than you can say “business as usual,” freshman Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have begun to execute Wall Street’s agenda.
Tea Partiers March to Lobbyists’ Tune
We’re open for Business.
War Gets Easier All the Time
Nowadays decisions on war can quickly become back page stuff.
Crossing the Lexicon
Did Navy SEALs “assassinate,” “murder,” or “kill” Osama bin Laden?
The Lineup: Week of May 9-15, 2011
Jim Hightower writes about a company that’s trying to override Vermont’s decision to shutter a nuclear reactor and Peter Weiss explains why torture doesn’t “work.”
Free Private Manning
For Washington, WikiLeaks’ real crime is public humiliation.
Torture: Immoral, Illegal, Counterproductive, and Un-American
If the law is discarded in the fight against terror, terrorists can rack up a win.
The Game is Changing in Iran
Iran’s inner turmoil and the rapid change sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa don’t bode well for its regime.
Making a Statement with Our Tractors
If Wisconsin’s public-sector workers lose their collective bargaining rights, then dairy farmers will lose as well.