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
A Generation Exhales with Bin Laden’s Death
For young people raised in the shadow of the war on terrorism, the al-Qaeda leader’s death offers a moment of relief, even as the war continues.
Take-No-Prisoners War
We may have Killed the 9-11 mastermind, but the Global War on Terror is still quite alive.
Osama’s Descent
This is too hot to be an Arab Spring.
Good Riddance
The 9-11 attacks assaulted our self-confidence and delivered a blow to our sense of well being from which we have yet to recover, a decade later.
Playing into Osama Bin Laden’s Hands
His greatest magic trick was to persuade the United States and its allies to expend enormous sums of money to fight a small, isolated, and anachronistic force that operated on the very margins of the Muslim world.
Why I Can’t Celebrate Osama Bin Laden’s Death
War isn’t, and never has been, the answer to terrorism.
Red, White, and Blue Frenzy
Despite the passion of the White House throngs, Osama bin Laden’s death is no “mission accomplished.”
Justice, Vengeance, and Osama Bin Laden
This could have been a moment to replace vengeance with cooperation, replace war with justice.
The Lineup: Week of May 2-8, 2011
Marc Morial weighs in on Donald Trump’s “birther” obsession and Donald Kaul assesses Michele Bachmann’s potential for a serious White House bid.
No-Doctrine Obama
Ultimately, the administration is unlikely to use Libya as a precedent for intervention anywhere else.