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MONDAY

Quote of the Day
January 21, 2013

'You can't talk about solving the economic problem
of the Negro without talking about billions of
dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums
without first saying profit must be taken out of
slums. You're really tampering and getting on
dangerous ground because you are messing with
folk then. You are messing with captains of
industry. Now this means that we are treading in
difficult water, because it really means that we are
saying that something is wrong with capitalism.
There must be a better distribution of wealth and
maybe America must move toward a democratic
socialism.'

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr
Quoted in: 'Martin Luther King
Was a Radical, Not a Saint'
by Peter Dreier
LA Progressive
January 21, 2013
http://tinyurl.com/ambj5jt

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/apjbj8n
The Big Flow
KAL- The Economist

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
January 22, 2013

'Fifty years ago this year, on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial, Martin Luther King, Jr. shared a vision
for a future of equality for all people, regardless of
race, in his "I Have a Dream" speech. He spent the
final years of his life working with thousands of
others to challenge economic inequality and racial
injustice. Although their efforts made historic civil
rights victories possible, much work remains to
close the racial divide. We are, indeed, a long way
from home.'

United for a Fair Economy on the
release of the group's  tenth annual
Martin Luther  King, Jr. Day report:
'State of the Dream 2013: A Long Way From
Home'

January 21, 2013

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/a3x7vvp
Bookmarks
Signe Wilkinson

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
January 23, 2013

' "It is clear that we are facing a climate crisis with
potentially devastating impacts on the global
economy.

'Greening global economic growth is the only way to
satisfy the needs of today’s population and up to 9
billion people by 2050, driving development and
wellbeing while reducing greenhouse gas emissions
and increasing natural resource productivity.

'... Economic growth and sustainability are inter-
dependent, you cannot have one without the other,
and greening investment is the pre-requisite to
realising both goals.'

Statement of the Green Growth
Action Alliance, led by the former
Mexican President, Felipe Calderon,
and delivered Tuesday to the World
Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland

The Independent (UK)
via SolidarityEconomy.net
January 22, 2013
http://tinyurl.com/aauyock

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/a5oxplu
GOP Taking Aim
Dave Brown - The Independent (UK)

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
January 24, 2013

'STRIKE OUT: Greece's government took emergency
measures to force striking subway workers back to
work, with those defying it risking dismissal, arrest
and jail.

'STRIKING BACK: In a swift backlash, unions
announced immediate strikes that halted all public
transport across the capital for the rest of the day.
The disruption was set to continue, with some
declaring further labor action.

'STRIKING CUTS: Subway workers were angered by
pay cuts they say will take away 25 percent of their
wages. The metro serves more than 700,000
passengers daily, covering 52 kilometers (32 miles)
with 34 stations. '

Associated Press
January 24, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/apnnuaz

Toon of the Day

http://tinyurl.com/a3sq3en
Job Seeker
Tom Toles - Washington Post

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
January 25, 2013

'"These aren't pro-growth policies - they're shell
games that reward the wealthiest Americans at the
expense of everyone else.'

Danny Kanner, a spokesperson
for the Democratic Governors
Association, on Republican
push to cut income taxes and
increase reliance on sales taxes

New York Times
January 25, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/asgv2xk

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/b4mesp3
Amgen Selloutis
Matt Wuerker

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
January 26, 2013

'In principle, Obama has committed to $4 trillion in
budget cuts over a decade, a sum that would be a
huge drag on the recovery, leaving too little for the
public investment necessary to create jobs and for
the scale of infrastructure spending needed to
mitigate future superstorms like Sandy. Since the
election, the president has walked back some of his
earlier commitment to spending cuts. But even as
he forced major concessions out of the Republicans,
he has continued to embrace deficit reductions as a
necessary path to recovery, a strategy that makes no
economic sense and that only whets the appetites of
the right-wing anti-government crusade and its
close ally, the corporate-sponsored Fix the Debt
campaign.'

Robert Kuttner
American Prospect
January 18, 2013
http://tinyurl.com/aak2may

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/awtcmoa
Sen. Reid & His Friend
David Horsey - Los Angeles Times