All Blog Posts Tagged 'street' (3)

If Martin Luther King Jr. was here today, what would he say to all who support the Occupy Wall Street movement? What specific goal would he want us to focus on the most? Among the many ideas for economic justice and equality, there is one specific solution that MLK strongly supported. Referred to in different ways, this idea has often been called the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG), an income unconditionally given to all on an individual basis, ensuring that…

Posted on engagingpeace.com November 10, 2011 by kathiemm

Tomorrow, Friday November 11, 2011, is Veterans Day in the United States, and for many it will be a holiday. Unfortunately, as has often been true historically, veterans in America are not doing well. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates and suicides among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are skyrocketing. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycDZFKNAHEM…

Congress is doing what it was directed to do: Shift wealth upwards, strip workers rights, protect the Church, grow the Military Industrial Complex and be the well behaved little lap dogs of Wall Street lobbyists.  The PR wing of the Billionaire Boys Club, aka "The…