ONE POLICY (championed by leaders of both parties) leads to poverty, pollution, racism, severe inequality, loss of good jobs, unnecessary wars & many of the other serious problems we face. **But there's GOOD NEWS: We can end this one policy & prioritize people & the planet. Unbeknownst to most of us, REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC …
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(Please see two short videos below. They're very sharp and you'll be surprised how crisply they define our problem and a potential solution -- one that 500,000 people are already working on). As it stands, Congress does not represent the interest of most of the people in this country. Members of Congress really only …
50% of children in the U.S. live below or near the poverty line. (Columbia University School of Public Health study here ) 20 individuals now have as much wealth as the poorest 150 million Americans (half the country per The Nation magazine here ). A study by the Atlantic found that …
"If you don't think this is a problem, go back and take a look at the Roman Empire -- right before the fall." - Robert Reich Reich really nails a key problem in this article: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/a-handful-of-ultra-rich-dynastic-families-are-bleeding-the-country-dry-and-destroying-american-democracy/ Here are some statistics and facts to consider: The game is rigged. (If you doubt that, just read this: …
Martin Luther King, Jr. said that nonviolence is the most powerful weapon on earth. Gene Sharp agrees. Sharp (who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize) developed a list of 198 Methods of non-violent resistance and wrote books describing how to deploy them successfully. As you'll see in the video below, Sharp's proven …
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(Please see photos towards the bottom of this post to see how the super wealthy are living compared to the rest of us. Also don't miss the SPECIAL NOTES FOR US DEMOCRATS below and the startling admission by the CEO of the largest carpet manufacturer in the world near the bottom). …
Poverty and inequality are: unnecessary, MANUFACTURED and fixable. Knowing that makes us look at this eye-opening list in a whole new way: 50% of children in the U.S. live below or near the poverty line. (Columbia University School of Public Health study here ) 20 individuals now have as …
Unbeknownst to many of us, REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC LEADERS have been agreeing for decades about one policy. It's called neoliberalism and it's causing many of the enormous problems we are wrestling with today. If we end this one policy (and we can end it), we can improve the lives of millions …
Below are 11 items that will brighten your outlook and arm us to turn this thing around. First, though, a few brief paragraphs by way of introduction: Republican and Democratic political leaders in the U.S. (as well as leaders around the globe) have championed a policy of neoliberalism for more than 20 years. That policy …
(Please don't miss another solution in red at bottom). This video clip is 2 minutes & 30 seconds long and very informative. Narrated by Robert Reich. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1y4ZNSjek After you watch the video, check out this companion website also has some really compelling stats and graphs. More importantly, it lists issues and …
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