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
Show Some Guts: Stop the Cuts
More and more Americans are saying: We want to pay for the things that are important to us.
Feisty Grannies Stand Up for Peace
A group of ladies from the mid-sixties into the nineties protests Obama’s war in Afghanistan.
Comcast-NBC Merger Is a Bad Deal
The proposed merger threatens competition and innovation.
The Danger of Invisible Corporate Power
It may take several election cycles to scrub corporate influence and control from our political system.
High Seas
No more excuses: This lawlessness has got to stop.
The Drug War: More Wasted Money and Lives
Remember Prohibition?
The Lineup: Week of June 7-13
This package features op-eds about Israel, budget cuts, and the NBC-Comcast merger.
Time for a Job Surge
National Urban League crunches numbers on joblessness and outlines solutions to the long-term unemployment crisis.
Oil Begins to Hit Florida Beaches; Disaster May cost BP $37 Billion
As Hightower says, it’s oozing on us.
Israel Plans to Meet Next Aid Ships with more Force
Relations with Turkey are deteriorating fast.