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Aerial View of the Pentagon in Virginia
Fund the People, Not the Pentagon

Prelude to Tax Day

April 5, 2021 Patricia Hynes
by Pat Hynes Previously published in Common Dreams On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions. Elephants occupy the bulging mansions of 657 American billionaires, 43 of them new this past pandemic year. Their combined wealth soared […]
Rally in support of Amazon workers, Boston, March 20, 2021. Photos by Mary Leno
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The Amazon Women of Bessemer, Alabama

March 25, 2021 Hayat Imam
For International Women’s Day, just a few weeks ago, I wrote “All Women are Wonder Women”. Little did I know that within weeks I would be writing the story of the “Amazon Women”! In a few days time, we may have a singular opportunity of […]
Community Services of Greater Brockton
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All Women are Wonder Women

March 4, 2021 Hayat Imam
Message delivered by Hayat Imam at Community Services of Greater Brockton, March 3, 2021 Good morning! Thank you very much for inviting me to join you today, through your colleague Nasreen, whom, by the way, we Bangladeshis affectionately call “Rumi”!  You may know that, in […]
Ryan Tax Plan / Peoples Budget Protest
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Peace Economy

February 21, 2021 Alec Neilly
A Moral Budget (S.1866 / H.2989) AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION TO REPORT ON THE MORAL BUDGET TO REVIVE, REPAIR AND REBUILD OUR ECONOMY This Act calls on Congress to pass a federal MORAL BUDGET that creates millions of jobs, invests in infrastructure, moves […]