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
Food for a Rooted Future
Rice farmers in the Philippines go chemical free, community strong.
Oh, Brother
New Republican governors are rebuffing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.
The Lineup: Week of January 17-23, 2011
Donald Kaul and John Feffer reflect on the insane national context for the tragic attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson.
Ruled by Rifles
We have to stop the guys with the guns from making their deranged rules–and fast.
The Tragic U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Either the administration has deluded itself or it can’t muster the courage to tell the American public the truth.
Baby Scapegoats
GOP lawmakers are shamefully seeking to score political points at the expense of undocumented workers’ children.
Heritage of Shame
Events celebrating secession are effectively glorifying the South’s defense of slavery and the white supremacist doctrine that underpinned it.
The Right to Bear Arms, Even if You’re Nuts
Where else can a certifiable loony who looks like Charlie Manson’s creepy cousin walk into a gun store and buy a semi-automatic pistol that shoots 30 rounds in just a few seconds?
A Banker who Gets It
Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, truly is a rarity.
National Insanity
Here’s how insanity erupts amidst the planet’s most rational society.