UUJECby Branco Milanovic, 2016 A New Approach for the Age of Globalization Branko Milanovic demonstrates that escalating economic inequality within nations is occurring globally, not just in the… Continue Reading Global Inequality
Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streek, 2016 In this provocative collection of essays, Streeck lays out capitalism’s self-destructive dynamics, “spreading like cancer. . . feeding parasitically… Continue Reading How Will Capitalism End?
A Five-Stage Framework for Creating Radical Social Change by George Lakey, 2016 What makes this book so great is not just its clear explanation of strategic thinking for… Continue Reading Toward a Living Revolution
by George Lakey, 2016 How the Scandinavians Got It Right – and How We Can, Too This is a very readable and down-to-earth book that dispels a flood… Continue Reading Viking Economics
Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice Mary Mellor, 2016 Question: Do you know how most money is created today? Answer: It emerges “out of thin air”, by… Continue Reading Debt or Democracy – Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice
This cogent article was sent by UUJEC member, Mona Lee, who develops imaginative displays for Ground Zero’s demonstrations to end nuclear proliferation. The article, which quotes the prescient… Continue Reading Why Should We Modernize Annihilation?
You probably know that the Social Security Administration collects taxes on just the first $118,500 / year of payroll. You may have also heard that increasing this cap… Continue Reading Remove the Social Security Maximum, by Kit Marlowe
Forty thousand CWA workers went on strike against Verizon in mid April. Essentially Verizon was trying to bust the Union. On Staten Island for example Verizon had not… Continue Reading Reporting from the Picket Line: Rich Florentino
Last year at General Assembly, UUJEC promoted an Action of Immediate Witness (AIW) against Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) but it never got out of the Commission on Social… Continue Reading Proposed Action of Immediate Witness: Stop the TPP, by Dick Burkhart
An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice by Les Leopold, 2015 Most persons who visit this web page have read one or more books on income inequality. Runaway Inequality,… Continue Reading Runaway Inequality