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
The Lineup: Week of December 20-26, 2010
Sanho Tree points out some under-reported risks posed by the latest WikiLeaks document dump.
WikiLeaks: Caveat Lector
Keep these questions in mind when reading the cache of leaked State Department cables.
Spotlight on Sudan
Southern Sudan’s vote for independence and ongoing violence in Darfur demand U.S. attention.
The Ethanol Industry’s $6 Billion Christmas Gift
Evidence is mounting that corn ethanol and other basic biofuels are actually worse for the environment than the fossil fuels they’re supposed to replace.
Stop Secret Election Spending: A Nonpartisan Goal
Secret spending will only balloon in the 2012 elections if Congress doesn’t stop it in its tracks.
Why Can’t Our Politicians Get into the Holiday Spirit?
Surely life’s unfairness doesn’t have to be rubbed in kids’ faces at Christmas.
Color-Coded Terrorism Alerts Fade to Black
Jay Leno has suggested that DHS should include plaid into its color scheme, for at least that would tell us that our country is under attack by Scotland.
Dubai: Temple of Greed
This sliver of sand boasts the world’s tallest building, a sail-shaped hotel with a $100 lunch, a new subway system, 95,000 hotel rooms, and a working indoor ski slope.
Clean Corn
There’s bad CO2 and good CO2.
The Lineup: Week of December 13-19, 2010
Anupama Joshi and Robert Gottlieb weigh in on the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act while Donald Kaul offers his take on Obama’s controversial deal with the GOP on the Bush tax cuts.