Economic Justice

On May 1, 2006 millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets in 140 cities in 39 states across the United States as part of a wave of mass marches that spring in repudiation of extreme anti-immigrant legislation, passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives. The vast...

When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, he was trying to move the country to take on the moral issue of economic injustice. And, for the first time in many years, the remembrances of King's death (this one the 40^th anniversary) urged the nation to do the same. Usually,...

The following is a speech I delivered today, April 4, 2008, to the Southern Regional Meeting of Central Labor Councils in Memphis to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Thank you for your welcome, but most importantly, thanks for all you do...

The following post was originally published on The Nation's guest blog, Passing Through, where I was in residence throughout February.

It is a rudimentary introduction to carbon cap and trade systems and the question of allocating permits, an argument (or three) in favor of auctioning permits, and a review...

John Edwards ended his campaign yesterday afternoon at the same place he started it and with the same theme -- ending poverty as a moral imperative. In the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Edwards said that he was stepping aside in this presidential campaign,...

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Back in March of this year, I interviewed Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, Calif. He was excited because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had adopted his "green-collar jobs" language and agreed to craft legislation around it....