Last night the City Council ripped off one of the biggest scabs on Baltimore’s body politic – the fact that large nonprofit institutions pay no property taxes.
At an informational hearing, the [...]
By Geoff West and Alex Baumgart, Opensecrets.org -
President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy under the direction of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is big business for U.S. companies — from private prison and tech firms to defense and [...]
By Katherine Paul for Organic Consumers Association - Washington, DC- Two nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit against Monsanto for misleading the public by labeling its popular weedkiller [...]
By Jay Walljasper for AlterNet - Business owners gather at an elegant Montreal event center to celebrate the 20th anniversary of a large-scale economic partnership. The former chief of Quebec’s [...]
By Adam DeAngeli for Tax Revolution Center - The draft of the House of Representatives’ financial-services appropriations bill contains language very similar to what was passed last year to [...]
By Walter Wright, Kathryn W. Hexter and Nick Downer, www.democracycollaborative.org -
By Walter Wright, Kathryn W. Hexter and Nick Downer for Democracy Collaborative - Cities are increasingly turning to their “anchor” institutions as drivers of economic development, harnessing the [...]
By Auset Marian Lewis for Tele Sur - Injustice is not happenstance. It’s systemic. Police shoot more unarmed black men than white because the slave system put a target on their backs centuries [...]
By Dan Wright for Shadow Proof - While there has traditionally been a close relationship between Wall Street donors and nonprofit organizations like charities and universities, a new study from [...]
By Warren Marr for Black Agenda Report - A seasoned movement elder examines what happens left organizations are led exclusively by college-educated professionals answerable to self-perpetuating [...]
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.occupy.com -
In our previous article, we described how the U.S. has undermined the United Nations Conference of Party (COP) meetings to force a pro-industry agenda, even going so far as spying on countries [...]
Here's a dirty little secret you won't see in the daily papers: Corporations conduct espionage against U.S. nonprofit organizations without fear of being brought to justice.
Yes, that means [...]
By Indigenous Action Media, www.indigenousaction.org -
The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they [...]
