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To kick off 2014, Colorlines asked several community leaders to share their racial justice wishes for the year. We wanted to to know, what are some truly attainable victories for justice in the coming year? And how could any one of us help achieve them?

America has been redistributing upward for some time – after all, “trickle-down” economics turned out to be trickle up — but we outdid ourselves in 2013. At a time of record inequality and decreasing mobility, America conducted a Great Redistribution upward.

If any of these ideas sound good to you, there's a bitter political struggle to be waged. Let's get to work.

Benghazi, unemployment benefits, Social Security, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Obamcare

'Nobody should have to struggle on poverty wages just to satisfy big corporations’ endless thirst for profits.'

Think our anxiety about the dehumanising effect of technology is a new thing? It's been a concern since the invention of writing

The environmental justice community needs to make a very intentional effort to link the economic and ecological crisis, to reveal the root causes of those crises, and to stimulate a conversation about is there a better way, is there a better way that we can live in this country.