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Taxes must be increased for the ultra-rich as a “strategic precondition to reducing inequality and resuscitating democracy,” Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International said.

Nurses at Mount Sinai South Nassau voted by a majority to join the New York State Nurses Association. The approximately 800 nurses at South Nassau represent the last non-union facility in the entire Mount Sinai health system.

“Honey Cake and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” was organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. More than one survivor remembers sustaining fellow-prisoners with vivid descriptions of the foods they’d eaten in their earlier lives.

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."

A federal program of subsidized employment would empower workers, strengthen communities, and move us toward a more equitable economy for everyone.

King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.

How nuclear weapons gradually became a key part of international relations.

Fracking is a relatively expensive process—about ten times more costly than the $5 to $6 per barrel cost of drilling oil from conventional wells in Saudi Arabia. By letting the price of oil drop, OPEC, in which Saudi Arabia is the key partner, has been applying financial pressure on the fracking industry.

Beginning with the lunch counter sit-ins in early 1961 and continuing on through 1969 and beyond, college students around the country rallied to the cause of justice and freedom. The two best known student organizations of that time were the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Another important group, though less well known, was the Northern Student Movement (NSM) and it was founded on the Yale campus in New Haven

Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself. Russia, Iceland, Ireland and Equador.