When we talk about investing in our people, we hear, "How are you going to pay for that?” Yet the cost of our endless wars will soon surpass $6 trillion. Imagine if we invested $6 trillion in health care, education, housing, our infrastructure and much more. We must do better.
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The politically incorrect truth is that there's way, way more evidence of Trump being an Israeli & Saudi 'puppet' than a Russian one. But really he's a corrupt politician who has sold out to a variety of special interests. It's less sexy, more accurate, but just as damning.
“Banks are acutely sensitive about their reputations because they are in a business acutely susceptible... if consumers vote with their wallets.”
Economic activism (ex: the fossil fuel divestment mvmt we saw at Standing Rock, and pressuring business re: assault rifles) works.
Gotta love how the same folks who tolerate+ acquiesce to building a medieval wall along the entire US southern border as a (non-evidence based) solution for a “crisis” that doesn’t exist are now suddenly concerned that pursuing a nat’l response to climate change is “unrealistic.”
$200 million. That's how much the five largest oil and gas companies spend EVERY year to prevent meaningful action on climate change.
When we are in the White House we will not allow them to destroy our planet for profit any longer.
Huge update: JP Morgan & Wells Fargo have announced that they will no longer fund private prisons.
How did this happen? Through organizing people & public pressure!
Everyday folks began paying attention to who was funding for-profit prisons & family separation,+ acted on it. ⬇️
We need to invest in jobs and education for our kids, not more jails and incarceration. We need to end the destructive "war on drugs," eliminate private prisons and cash bail and bring about major police department reform.