November 29, 2021 by V Leigh

‘No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.’ — @AOC

.@AliVelshi: Taxing ultra-wealthy Americans differently than the rest of us is not a controversial idea. https://t.co/IGzJ80BaVg
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 26, 2021

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If we’re serious about taking on the military industrial complex & cutting the Pentagon budget, we have to expose the military contractors who profit from endless war.

Share this clip from our film “Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers” and help expose the for-profit war machine! pic.twitter.com/3iLBV5P9MO
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) August 14, 2021

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20 years after taking out student loans, the typical white borrower owes about 5% of their debt. The typical Black borrower owes about 95%. Because of the wealth gap & systemic discrimination, Black students go into more debt & have a harder time paying it. #CancelStudentDebt
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 3, 2021

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No one should have to ration life-saving medication due to price, and yet 1/4 diabetic Americans aren’t taking insulin as prescribed because of its skyrocketing cost. Today, on #WorldDiabetesDay, I’m wearing earrings made from old insulin vials to keep the pressure on Big Pharma. pic.twitter.com/BSAMmtt9pM
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) November 14, 2021

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‘No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.’ — @AOC pulled no punches when discussing income inequality, capitalism, and the ultra wealthy’s grip on power in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/74LMHVM6O4
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 16, 2021

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How Manchin and Sinema’s status as Senate holdouts is proving lucrative

“The Democratic senators have received a flood of money from conservative donors, leading some to raise concerns of corruption”https://t.co/phePsgUB1i
— Coal Miner’s Granddaughter (@TerenehIdia) November 28, 2021

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October 4, 2021 by V Leigh

#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful

“There is one rule for the rich, and one rule for ordinary people, we’ve got a situation where the richest people on earth are paying lower taxes than a nurse or cleaner”

Max Lawson, from Oxfam International, reacts to findings of the Pandora Papershttps://t.co/H0yx1kRRiW
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 4, 2021

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The #PandoraPapers unmask the covert owners of offshore companies, incognito bank accounts, private jets, yachts, mansions and famous artwork — providing more information than what’s usually available to law enforcement and cash-strapped governments. https://t.co/JxKKwYqrtt pic.twitter.com/zJmtqhUYe5
— ICIJ (@ICIJorg) October 3, 2021

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World leaders, celebrities and billionaires are among those who’ve used offshore accounts to hide assets, a report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveals. The “Pandora Papers” analyzes nearly 12 million leaked files. https://t.co/yyA3iIP2LT
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2021

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Pandora Papers: Document dump allegedly links world leaders to secret wealth https://t.co/1vnuJUaY2c pic.twitter.com/QH0ry4FZ55
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 4, 2021

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Massive data leak, the Pandora Papers, exposes how world leaders and the super-rich are secretly buying up luxury property to hide their wealthhttps://t.co/DGNOuSbLkb
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 3, 2021

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You guys it’s definitely just a coincidence that Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp goes down the day of a 60mins expose and the Pandora Papers drop.
— Camilla Blackett (@camillard) October 4, 2021

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The offshore secrets of more than 35 current and former presidents revealed in a massive leak. This is one of the most exhausting, complex and potentially explosive investigations I’ve ever worked on. https://t.co/abUFJB2o5P
— Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) October 3, 2021

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While Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp aren’t competing for your attention, read our thread 🧵 on everything you need to know about the Pandora Papers 👇 https://t.co/SRvbVnfEWy
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 4, 2021

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#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful https://t.co/r28CVIgkJ2
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 3, 2021

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April 16, 2021 by V Leigh

Inequality is the greatest harm to our democracy

Arkansas GOP legislature just passed Georgia-style voter suppression bills making it crime to give food and water to voters waiting in line & stripping power from nonpartisan election officials
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 13, 2021

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I cried looking at the new Forbes billionaire list so I did a bunch of number crunching (as I do) to calm down.

First, let’s say this loud and clear. COVID-19 has been a boon for the rich. Founders, families & CEOs of the five Big Tech companies are now worth $651,800,000,000.
— jane chung (@Jane24477) April 7, 2021

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Jeff Bezos is worth $182 billion and the fact that he chooses to do everything within his power to keep the 5,800 predominantly Black workers in Alabama from unionizing for humane working conditions proves that he knows he didn’t earn his fortune. He exploited workers for it.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) March 19, 2021

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Waiting for justice: Unsentenced people locked up for years | CalMattershttps://t.co/1qdN72gZf0 #presumedinnocent #jailreformnow
— LaDoris Cordell (@judgecordell) March 31, 2021

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Policing is a public health crisis.
Mass incarceration is a public health crisis.
Housing injustice is a public health crisis.
Medical apartheid is a public health crisis.
Racism is a public health crisis.
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) April 10, 2021

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“Inequality is the greatest harm to our democracy because inequality asphyxiates hope,” says Ford Foundation president Darren Walker. Now, the mission of every Ford Foundation grant is fighting inequality. https://t.co/7C6uKiDqRc pic.twitter.com/W6nKviEUcu
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 4, 2021

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October 23, 2020 by V Leigh

The top 1% of Americans

BREAKING: The Seattle Human Services Department just announced that providing housing to Seattle’s 12,000 homeless would be “reckless and irresponsible”. Over 1 in 10 Seattle apartments are currently empty. We are in a pandemic and our air is at toxic levels due to wildfires. https://t.co/9OQnV1F6r6
— Dae (@daeshikjr) September 17, 2020

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The top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90%—and that’s made the U.S. less secure https://t.co/o7Nm9JUOWI
— TIME (@TIME) September 14, 2020

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May 18, 2020 by V Leigh

“There’s a cruelty here that I don’t think I’ve seen”

Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week.

Now, they are being replaced by prison labor. https://t.co/Os5a52qOo5
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) May 10, 2020

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Capitalism has brought about levels of income inequality that are unjust and unsustainable.

Three men in America own more wealth than the bottom HALF of the country. This is disturbing. Unfettered capitalism is not the path forward.#RIPCapitalism

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— McAuley 🍽 (@McauleyHolmes) May 13, 2020

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On top of years of income inequality, women have also been most heavily affected by this economic crisis. We have a responsibility to provide aid to displaced workers and ensure equal pay for women as they re-enter the workforce. https://t.co/iDQciwYF78
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) May 11, 2020

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Before the early 1980s, there weren’t millions of people experiencing homelessness in the United States. The modern crisis can be traced to drastic Reagan-era cuts to affordable housing in the middle of an economic recession. https://t.co/W3nLJSaPiE
— The Appeal (@theappeal) April 25, 2020

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“There’s a cruelty here that I don’t think I’ve seen…” As I have said before, homelessness and housing insecurity are directly connected to income inequality. Time to fix that. #waleg @markoliias America’s Cities Could House Everyone if They Chose To https://t.co/3jO1TlQL7c
— Patty Kuderer (@senpattykuderer) May 17, 2020

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January 14, 2020 by V Leigh

We need to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation.

ICYMI: @AyannaPressley @IlhanMN talk Black economic opportunity in Boston https://t.co/1p6yrL2sFw

— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) January 12, 2020

"If the federal minimum wage in 1968 had kept up with inflation and productivity, it would now be $22 an hour. Instead, it’s $7.25," write @NickKristof and @WuDunn https://t.co/fh9SlEvp7r

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) January 10, 2020

Raising the minimum wage by $1 or more appears to reduce the suicide rate, especially in times when unemployment is high and it's hard to find a job, a new study finds.https://t.co/gJOB8k0miN

— NPR (@NPR) January 9, 2020

The federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hr. https://t.co/ZLw6SdPhUy

— West Virginia IWW (@WestVirginiaIWW) January 11, 2020

We need to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation.

And we need to make sure we leave no tipped workers behind.https://t.co/MQYI1z4t23

— Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez (@cristinafortx) January 11, 2020

February 16, 2017 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

The War on Drugs

#TBT Nixon aide John Ehrlichman admitted to creating the war on drugs to criminalize hippies & Black people. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM pic.twitter.com/gRZQPiGGZV

— Sarah Freed (@sar_freed) February 16, 2017

War on Drugs is War on People

July 17, 2015 by Oppression Monitor

California cheerleaders win right to be paid and treated like regular employees

A new law just signed by Gov. Jerry Brown gives employee rights to professional cheerleaders, including the right to receive at least minimum wage and to be paid for all practices and appearances.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: money.cnn.com

This took way to long. Shameful history.
Requiring cheerleaders to work without pay? Seriously!? With all the money that sports brings in!? Female indentured servants.#WomensRights

December 12, 2014 by Oppression Monitor

White-black wealth gap widens to near record levels

Wealth gap between whites and blacks and whites and Hispanics widens to near record levels.

Source: money.cnn.com

November 10, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

Income inequality impairs the American dream of upward mobility – debate [VIDEO]

The elephant in the room that I did not hear in the debate is that the question should have not used the word inequality. Instead they should have used the word inequity.

“Income inequity impairs the American dream of upward mobility.”

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