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The Neoliberal Looting of America
“The current crisis has revealed that the health of the finance industry and stock market is completely disconnected from the actual financial health of the American people. As inequality, unemployment and evictions climb, the Dow Jones surges right alongside them — one line compounding suffering, the other compounding returns for investors” (Mehrsa Baradaran, 2020).
We Socialize Bailouts. We Should Socialize Successes, Too.
“Governments have spent trillions on stimulus packages without creating structures — like a citizens’ dividend, which would reward public investment — that turn short-term remedies into the means for an inclusive, sustainable economy. This gets to the heart of what fuels inequality: We socialize risks but privatize rewards” (Mariana Mazzucato, 2020).
How China Scammed Hong Kong
“After many years of rejecting the people of Hong Kong’s persistent demands for genuine universal suffrage and other rights, China...chose the eve of July 1... to pass a draconian national security law that will forever harm Hong Kong’s political freedoms and hobble its economic relations with the rest of the world” (Yi-Zheng Lian, 2020).
What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common
“Facebook’s core business is to get as many people as possible to spend as many hours as possible on its site, so that it can sell those people’s attention to advertisers...this notion of core business explains a lot—including why it’s so hard to make rapid gains in the fight against climate change” (Bill McKibben, 2020).
Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power?
“Huge disparities in income and wealth translate into comparable disparities in political influence. To see how this works, let’s look at a fairly recent example: the budgetary Grand Bargain that almost happened in 2011” (Paul Krugman, 2020).
Facebook Can't Be Reformed
“What is most dangerous about W.K.W.H.M.W.T.D. is that it glosses over the fundamental structural flaws in the platform. The architecture of the social network...will always produce more objectionable content at a dizzying scale” (Charlie Warzel, 2020).
Community Mobilisation: Unlocking the Potential of Community Power
"This report offers a how-to guide for organisations interested in the process of building communities into cohesive wholes, with clear objectives and clear plans...illustrating a range of potential strategies...to build active, networked and powerful communities" (Tiratelli 2020).
Are You Willing to Give Up Your Privilege?
“No chief executive, investor or rich person wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says, “Today, I want to go out and create more inequality in America.” And yet, all too often, that is exactly what happens” (Darren Walker, 2020).
Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report examines “1.How are racial and ethnic disparities in the economy showing up in the COVID-19 epidemic?” 2. “How are racial and ethnic disparities showing up in the public policy response to the COVID-19 epidemic?” and looks at how economic effects of Covid impact inequality (Democracy Collaborative, 2020).
What the Courage to Change History Looks Like
“Yes, years of police killings of unarmed African-Americans had stacked up like dry tinder. True, George Floyd’s public murder furnished the spark. But freedom’s forge must finish its work while the coals are hot. This is the hour to reimagine what America could become if “We the People” meant all of us” (William Barber II et. al., 2020)
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