Politics of Poverty
Politics of Poverty
Nothing New Under the Sun: Southern Black Women & the Fight for the Soul of Climate Change
My recent time spent with the Black women environmental justice leaders of Lake Charles, LA helped me better appreciate the similar struggles and solidarity between climate defenders in the Global and US South. This Earth Day, more urgently than ever before, Black communities in the US South need our attention and support against the disproportionate burdens of climate change.
Politics of Poverty
How did we get to “hot strike summer” anyway?
Writers. Actors. Hotel workers. And soon, most likely, Teamsters. It’s the summer of strikes, when hundreds of thousands of unionized workers are flexing their muscle of collective action. Why is this erupting with flash and heat in such a brutal summer?
Politics of Poverty
Tax billionaires like the rest of us
Billionaires don’t pay their fair share in taxes. There is no justification for it. We must tax them now to invest in our families and a green economy.