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MORNING MESSAGE Lenny Sanchez Why I’m Striking Against Uber Today, I’m doing what Uber drivers all around the world are doing: I’m going on strike. What started on a Chicago streetcorner has blossomed into an international movement: we’re now joined by thousands of...
Why I’m Striking Against Uber
Today, I’m doing what Uber drivers all around the world are doing: I’m going on strike. I’m far from alone. What started on a Chicago streetcorner last September has blossomed into an international movement: we’re now joined by thousands of rideshare drivers - in New...
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MORNING MESSAGE Vernell Robinson Making a #HomesGuarantee a Reality For All My name is Vernell Robinson, and I live on front lines of our nation’s housing crisis. My voice, and other voices of those directly affected by this crisis, belong at the table with...
Making a #HomesGuarantee a Reality For All
My name is Vernell Robinson, and I live on front lines of our nation’s housing crisis. My voice, and other voices of those directly affected by this crisis, belong at the table with decision-makers - because we are the ones who know what needs to change, now. That’s...
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MORNING MESSAGE Jessicah Pierre A Revolutionary Idea To Close The Racial Wealth Divide The gap between America’s ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is growing dramatically as wealth continues to concentrate at the top at the expense of the rest of us. One major symptom...
A Revolutionary Idea To Close The Racial Wealth Divide
The gap between America’s ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is growing dramatically as wealth continues to concentrate at the top at the expense of the rest of us. One major symptom of this economic rift is the racial wealth divide, which is greater today than it was...
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MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati A Plea from America’s Rich: Let’s Change the Subject! America’s elites have for decades now enjoyed — and exploited — a mainstream political consensus. America is doing just fine, this consensus has held, but just not for everybody. We...
A Plea from America’s Rich: Let's Change the Subject!
The United States these days is essentially working well only for the rich, and appreciable numbers of Americans no longer just wonder why. They’re demanding checks on grand private fortunes and the behaviors that pump these fortunes up. All this has today’s rich worrying. Really worrying. Headlines the Washington Post: “U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system that made them rich.” That survival, the more thoughtfully strategic among the rich now believe, requires a reworked mainstream consensus that recognizes how deeply entrenched American inequality has become. Can they pull that reworking off?
#PeoplesWave Rises Up For #MedicareForAll
We just took a huge step towards Medicare For All: the House Ways and Means Committee has announced they will hold, for the first time, hearings on the Medicare For All Act Of 2019, introduced this spring by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT). Ways...
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MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard Victims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure - Army veteran, husband, father and grandfather -left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot,...
