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Economic Justice Links


Americans for a Fair Estate Tax - a broad-based non-partisan coalition that advocates reform instead of repeal of the estate tax.

Center for Economic and Policy Research - CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people?s lives. We work to ensure that the citizenry has the information and analysis that allows it to act effectively in the public interest.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - CBPP is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.

The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP) - CHPP’s goal is to ensure that heirs' receive and exercise the full rights associated with property ownership.

Children's Defense Fund - The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Citizens for Tax Justice - A nonpartisan, nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to fair taxation at the federal, state, and local levels.

Economic Policy Institute - The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

Global Exchange

Industrial Workers of the World - A union for all people.

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy - The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan research and education organization that works on government taxation and spending policy issues.

Left Business Observer - Left Business Observer is an 8-page more-or-less monthly newsletter on economics and politics in the U.S. and the world at large.

National Bureau Of Economic Research
- a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.

National Center on Poverty Law - A legal and policy research, communications, and advocacy organization that provides national leadership in identifying, developing, and supporting creative and collaborative approaches to achieve social and economic justice for low-income people.

National Coalition for the Homeless - Our mission is to end homelessness. We focus our work in the following 4 areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights.

National Committee on Pay Equity - A national membership coalition of over 80 organizations working to eliminate sex- and race-based wage discrimination and to achieve pay equity.

National Economic Development and Law Center - A multi-disciplinary legal and planning resource center whose mission is to contribute to the abilities of low-income persons and communities to realize their full potential.

National Low Income Housing Coalition LIHIS - NLIHC provides up-to-date information, formulates policy, and educates the public on housing needs and the strategies for solutions.

National People's Action - NPA is the tool for neighborhood people to take on corporate America and fat cat Washington Politicians.

National Urban League - The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power and civil rights.

OMB Watch - OMB Watch was formed in 1983 to lift the veil of secrecy shrouding the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Palmetto Legal Services - Providing free legal services in civil matters to qualified low income residents of South Carolina Midlands.

Responsible Wealth - Responsible Wealth is a national network of businesspeople, investors and affluent Americans who are concerned about deepening economic inequality and are working for widespread prosperity.

United for a Fair Economy - United for a Fair Economy was founded as a "movement support" organization to provide media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in our country.

 



Economic Justice
News And Commentary


Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

 

 

 

 



An AFL-CIO "Good Jobs Now!" Action

 Sponsored by the Charleston Central Labor Council.
Tuesday, March 16


"We will meet in front of the Bank of America in same building as Congressman Henry Brown's office at lunch to hand out info, get signatures and do a press conference"

Click here for a map and more information.

Not in Charleston? Look for an event in your area .

 
Economic Policy Institute



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Labour Video of the Year

From LabourStart:

Watch five great videos and choose the one you like best.  Voting ends at midnight GMT on 31 March 2010.

I voted for "The Janitor"

 
Real-World Economics Review Blog



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February Unemployment

Dean Baker:  Unemployment Rate Holds at 9.7 Percent in Spite of Snow Storms

CBPP Statement:  Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the February Employment Report
 
Progressive Review Money and Work



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How to create 18 million jobs
From theREALnews Network
 
AlterNet.org: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace



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Yes! Magazine Interviews Elinor Ostrom


 “We need to get people away from the notion that you have to have a fancy car and a huge house. Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.”  -  Elinor Ostrom

Fran Korten:  Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense

Elinor Ostrom:  8 Keys to a Successful Commons

On the Commons

 
Business on HuffingtonPost.com



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This Land Is Your Land

February 23rd, 2010 marks the 70th birthday of Woody Guthrie's THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND .
Sing it out!
 
Global Labor Strategies


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South Carolina AFL-CIO Endorses DC March for Jobs, Peace and Justice!

"Rank-and-file unions from various parts of the country, as well as Central Labor Councils, have been passing resolutions calling on the AFL-CIO and Change to Win to organize a massive Solidarity Day III demonstration in Washington to demand job-creation programs as well as other programs vital to working people."

Read at Portside
 
Beat The Press
by Dean Baker



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Brother Can You Spare a Dime

Harriet Fraad:  Why Are Americans Passive as Millions Lose Their Homes, Jobs, Families and the American Dream?

Dean Baker:  Surge in Women’s Employment Brings Unemployment Rate Down to 9.7 Percent

EPI News:  Unemployment, tax cuts, and the deficit

Chad Stone:  January Employment Report

EPI News:  Policies that promote – and discourage – job creation

Bill Scher:  Like 5.7% GDP Growth? Pass A Real Jobs Bill.

CommonDreams.org:  Kucinich Plan to Create One Million Permanent Job Opportunities

 
OurFuture.org

Featured * :: an economy for all

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Howard Zinn Philosophy

"I believe that we need a society where the motive for the economic system is not corporate profit, but the motive is the welfare of people, health care, jobs, child care, and so on. But that is dominant. Where there is a greater equalization of wealth and a society which is peaceful, which devotes its resources to helping people in the country and elsewhere."

More at big think.

 
Dean Baker's Beat The Press


“Will is either profoundly ignorant of economics, or being disingenuous...”

“Why do reporters feel the need to editorialize? They should be given oped columns so that they can tell readers how much they like a trade pact, but their affections can't make a trade deal that increases patent and copyright protections and leaves most protection for highly-paid professionals unchanged a "free trade" agreement.”

“The NYT might try not just accepting at face value the framing of an important issue given by a former Reagan administration chief of staff.”

“It would have been useful if USA Today could have found some economists who could have explained how this proposal from Senators Isakson and Dodd is hare-brained even by Washington standards.”

“Did Geithner Say Whether Currency Is Still Needed?"

Read Beat The Press at The American Prospect

 
Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
 
The Hometown Advantage - Reviving Locally Owned Business


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Our Corporate Masters


“I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816

Dave Johnson:   Monopoly Corporatocracy Replaces Democracy

Eric Lotke:   It’s Official. Corporations Rule.

Ralph Nader:   Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned, Once and For All

Alan Grayson:   SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY

Bill Scher:  A Constitutional Amendment For Public Campaign Financing: Now Is The Time

Campaign To Legalize Democracy:  We Move to Amend.
"We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:

* Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

* Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes and participation count.

* Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state governments."

Join the insurgency against our corporate masters.

 
CEPR.net



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Martin Luther King Jr.:
"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"

“A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

For the text of the entire speech click here.
 
Truthout - labor


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