Little Rock According to IRS documents now released to the public, the Republicans and the right have been squealing like stuck pigs about being discriminated against on their applications for a free tax ride without any good reason, because the IRS was an “equal opportunity” discriminator targeting both the left and the right for special …
Category: Financial Justice
Constant Complaints on Cable and Internet Rip-offs
Toronto In a classic community organizing case of people discovering that what they had thought was a personal problem was actually a collective issue, a workshop on campaigning to bridge the digital divide at the ACORN Canada bi-annual convention became group bonding over virtually universal experiences of telecom rip-offs, price gouging, bad service, predatory practices, …
Learning from the Protests in Brazil
Toronto The work of the Free Fare Movement in Brazil has triggered mass movements and mobilizations for change in Brazil. The simplest of their demands, reducing what is reportedly a somewhat modest fare increase, has already been met in the major cities of Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, but as the numbers have increased, …