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
Patriotic Schlunk
Always vote, even if you have to hold your nose.
Simmering Water War
Boneheaded executives and greed-headed investors might be draining the fresh water supplies where you live.
Food Pyramid Scheme
Let them eat pie in the sky.
Recession? What Recession?
The rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer, with many who used to be middle class sliding into the second camp.
Decoding the G-20 Drama
The brouhaha over “global re-balancing” boils down to this: Americans buy too much stuff from China.
Race and Economics: A Nation and Its Capital Divided
The best hope I see for the country and it’s cities, like Washington DC, is that sooner rather than latter the electorate recognizes that changing politicians isn’t a change we can believe in, rather the country must radically change the trickle down, deregulated economy which has maintained racial divisions and increased economic inequality.
The Lineup: Week of November 8-14, 2010
OtherWords columnist Donald Kaul marvels at the GOP’s “magical” gains in the midterm elections and FCNL’s Joe Volk urges the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear weapons treaty before the year ends.
How about Saving all the Miners?
Mining endangers communities everywhere with safety hazards and environmental destruction.
Negotiating with Nutjobs
The Obama-hating rhetoric is non-stop.
Will the Senate Come Together to Make a Safer World?
The New START treaty is a no-brainer.