Reform

The UBI Already Exists. It Is Just Unevenly Distributed

September 6, 2019 Matt Bruenig, Peoplespolicyproject.org Educate! Guaranteed basic income, Inequality, Reform

So let us do the math here. Providing every person $10,000 a year would sum up to about $3.2 trillion. This would be passive income paid out to people with no strings attached and without them having to work for it. Now ask yourself: do we have any other kind of income in our society that is paid out passively to people with no strings attached and without them having to work for it? Yes. We do. It is called “capital income” or, at other times, the “net operating surplus.” How much capital income is there in our current economy? $5 trillion.

North Carolina Court Strikes Down State Legislative Map As Unconstitutional Gerrymander

September 4, 2019 Joseph Ax, Reuters.com Resist! Courts, Electoral Politics, North Carolina, Reform

(Reuters) - A North Carolina court on Tuesday struck down the Republican-drawn state legislative map as an illegal partisan gerrymander and gave lawmakers two weeks to enact new district lines for next year’s elections. A three-judge panel in Wake County Superior Court said the state Senate and state House district lines discriminated against Democratic voters in violation of the state constitution’s free elections, equal protection and free speech clauses. The decision is a victory for election reform advocates considering legal challenges to partisan gerrymandering in state courts despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year blocking such cases in federal courts.

NLRB Reversing Important Labor Law Precedents

September 4, 2019 By Bobbi Murray, Capitalandmain.com Educate! Labor, NLRB, Reform, Repression

Employee rights advocates say this Labor Day’s family barbecues and union solidarity picnics will take place in the shadow of a Trump administration that has quietly stacked the National Labor Relations Board with anti-labor members. The federal agency is far less well-known than the IRS or EPA, but its five presidential appointees issue rulings with often far-reaching consequences for America’s working men and women. The NLRB was created in 1935 to oversee collective bargaining and protect labor standards...

Labour’s Inclusive Ownership Funds Should Be Fine

September 3, 2019 Matt Bruenig, Peoplespolicyproject.org Create! New Economy, Ownership, Reform, United Kingdom (UK)

The Financial Times published an alarmist front-page story about Labour’s Inclusive Ownership Funds proposal over the weekend. The headline of the story is that “UK’s Labour would cost companies £300bn by shifting shares to staff.” The paper then goes on to quote some right-wingers saying that this will be devastating in various ways. But in reality, the proposal, if implemented, should be fine. Labour’s IOF proposal is pretty simple: every year, for the next 10 years, large British companies will be required to issue stock equal to one percent of their ownership to trusts established for each company.

Move Over Wall Street, People’s Banks Are Coming To Replace You

September 2, 2019 Phoenix Goodman, Truthout.org Create! Banks, New Economy, Reform

A specter is haunting Wall Street: the public banking movement, which vows to replace private banks’ influence in public affairs. This movement is gaining traction in states and cities across the U.S. as motions to advance public banking are emerging in legislative halls from California to New York. In response to this momentum, hope is growing that the first U.S. public bank in 100 years will form in the foreseeable future. As this movement gains momentum, sparking a chain reaction, a mass switch to public banks could shift untold billions from the coffers of Wall Street into Main Streets everywhere...

Nan Goldin Among Activists Arrested While Protesting Governor Cuomo’s Failure To Open Safe Injection Sites

August 30, 2019 Megan Kapler, Artforum.com Resist! New York (NY), Protests, Reform, Repression

At 11:00 AM on Wednesday, around two hundred health and drug policy activists swarmed New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office, where they protested the lawmaker’s failure to deliver on a promise he made during his 2017 re-election campaign: to open the country’s first safe consumption sites. Among the thirteen demonstrators who were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct were Nan Goldin, artist and founder of Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (P.A.I.N.), and P.A.I.N. member Megan Kapler.

Leo Gerard Single Payer Highmark And The Corporatist Labor Movement

August 29, 2019 Russell Mokhiber, Corporatecrimereporter.com Educate! Health Care, Reform, Single payer health care

If you want to know why the single payer movement is having trouble breaking through in the United States, look no further than Leo Gerard. From 2001 to earlier this year, Gerard was the president of the United Steelworkers of America. Then earlier this month, just a few months after retiring as head of the union, Gerard joined the board of Highmark Health. How can it be that a major American union leader who says he supports Medicare for All single payer, who says he grew up under a single payer system in Canada and “knows the benefits,” who wrote earlier this year that “with a single-payer system like Medicare for All...

States March Toward 100% Clean Energy–Who’s Next?

August 29, 2019 Jeff Deyette, Blog.ucsusa.org Create! Clean Energy, March, Reform

One year ago this week, the California legislature passed landmark legislation committing the state’s power providers to supplying 60% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2030 and setting a target of 100% clean, or carbon-free, power by mid century. It was a bold action that significantly raised the bar for other states considering policy action. And over the last 12 months, another six states (bringing the total to eight states) plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have answered the call with various obligations toward 100% clean energy over the next few decades.

What Does ’12 Years To Act On Climate Change’ (Now 11 Years) Really Mean?

August 29, 2019 Bob Berwyn, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Reform

We've been hearing variations of the phrase "the world only has 12 years to deal with climate change" a lot lately. Sen. Bernie Sanders put a version of it front and center of his presidential campaign last week, saying we now have "less than 11 years left to transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy, if we are going to leave this planet healthy and habitable." But where does the idea of having 11 or 12 years come from, and what does it actually mean?

These Crime Victims Have Lost Loved Ones To Murder — And To Prison. That’s Why They Want To End Life Without Parole In Pennsylvania

August 28, 2019 Elizabeth Hardison, Penncapital-star.com Organize! Mass Incarceration, Prison, Reform

Kimberly King woke up at 5 a.m. on a February morning in 1997 to her phone ringing. Her mother was on the other end, calling to tell her that her brother, Damani Carter, had been shot in the head in North Philadelphia. King, who was 26 years old at the time, said she entered a state of shock. She threw up. Then she began to pray. “When my mother said he was shot, I just knew he was gone,” King said. “My faith has never been shaken as much as it was shaken at that time.”

On Day One, The Next President Should Declare A Climate Emergency

August 23, 2019 By Howie Hawkins, Nationofchange.org Create! Climate Change, Reform

The next president should declare a Climate Emergency, which will give the president powers to act rapidly and decisively to confront the climate crisis. The president should also create a cabinet-level Office of Climate Mobilization for the coordination of all federal agencies in mobilizing the nation’s resources to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions and 100% clean renewable energy by 2030. On July 29, I signed the 350 Action’s Day One Pledge, which asks presidential candidates to take four steps their first day in office...

New Monsanto Papers Reveal ‘Ghostwriting’ For Members Of US Congress In Attempt To Defund IARC

August 19, 2019 Staff, Sustainablepulse.com Educate! Congress, Deregulation, glyphosate, Monsanto, Reform

The latest batch of documents reveal Monsanto’s efforts to defund IARC by writing letters on behalf of sitting members of Congress to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which oversees government funding to IARC. Monsanto’s PR teams at FTI Consulting also worked behind the scenes to draft language for legislation aimed at defunding IARC. The ghostwritten letters to NIH cite articles by Reuters reporter Kate Kelland, a key mouthpiece for Monsanto in its bid to discredit IARC. In 2017, Kelland wrote a story that parroted IARC talking points she received from Monsanto executive Sam Murphey. The talking points, given to Kelland with an exclusive quote from Monsanto’s Vice President Scott Partridge, fueled the impression that IARC deliberately ignored data that would have changed the glyphosate classification.

Every American Should Be Guaranteed A Job. The Green New Deal Could Make That Happen.

August 19, 2019 Editors, Inthesetimes.com Create! Green New Deal, Labor, Reform

Yes! President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a “second Bill of Rights” in his 1944 State of the Union, a list of economic and social rights including “the right to a useful and remunerative job.” “Full employment” has been the official goal of the U.S. government since 1978, with the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act following advocacy from labor groups as well as Coretta Scott King. Early versions of the bill included an actual jobs guarantee, which was cut out of the final legislation. A jobs guarantee was also part of Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential platform.

What Would A City-Level Green New Deal Look Like? Seattle’s About To Find Out

August 17, 2019 Kristoffer Tigue, Insideclimatenews.org Create! Green New Deal, Reform, Seattle

City leaders launched Seattle on the path to a Green New Deal this week, passing a resolution that starts laying out an ambitious plan for how the city can cut its greenhouse gas emissions in ways that protect the climate and improve the lives of its residents. It's a nonbinding resolution, and like the national Green New Deal manifesto that's being promoted by Democrats in Congress, presidential hopefuls and the young activists in the Sunrise Movement, it's still mostly aspirational.

American Medical Association Leaves Coalition Fighting ‘Medicare For All’

August 17, 2019 Peter Sullivan, Thehill.com Educate! Health Care, Medicare, Reform

The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s main group for doctors, announced Thursday that it is leaving a coalition fighting "Medicare for All," a blow to the industry’s efforts to push back on the progressive proposal. The AMA said it is leaving the industry group called the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, which has been running ads against Medicare for All and public option proposals from the leading Democratic candidates for president. However, the doctors group’s CEO, Dr. James Madara, said in a statement that the AMA still opposes Medicare for All.

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