Sam Pizzigati: A Promising Path for Pummeling Plutocracy
Looking for a quick fix to inequality? Stop your searching. We need to strategize instead for the long-term. A riveting new work helps us see how.
Articles on Inequality and Organizing
Why Aren’t More of Us Protesting Inequality?
Egalitarian-minded academics have just subjected a central political question of our time to some rigorous research scrutiny. These researchers have found that more information about our economic divide can change how people feel about inequality, but not necessarily what they do.
Sam Pizzigati: Facebook and Tahrir Square, Revisited
Facebook’s initial public offering last week ‘offered’ the world another double dose of windfalls and greed. But Egypt’s elections this week may bring an IPO of a different sort, the ‘initial public offering’ of an antidote to avarice.
Salvatore Babones: Occupy Wall Street? Better Occupy Greenwich
Occupy Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan have struck at the heart of American corporate capitalism. What about Occupy Greenwich?
Chuck Collins: A Tax Plan to Rally Around: The Buffett Rule
If you care about the future of the republic, the health of our communities, and prospects for a new green economy, the fight over taxation and concentrated wealth is your fight.