One of the prime goals of the Reversing Runaway Inequality program has been to advocate for public banking. While the details have to be ironed out, New Jersey is now moving forward with the creation of a public bank. You can read the news here. The San Francisco Chronicle also covered the event. Here is … Read more
This excellently produced new video discusses the causes of runaway inequality and looks at Staten Island United’s silo-less approach to organizing as a model for movement building. It’s well worth watching even if you’ve watched other runaway inequality videos.
This happened on February 28th.
Hosted by the Movement for a Peoples’ Party.
Les Leopold appeared on a TV show called The Public Banking Solution, talking about the public banking solution, one of his favorite topics.
The tech isn’t the greatest, Les had Skype issues, but the message is clear.
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Jim Henry sent us a video about the recent workshop Indivisible St. Johns, in St. Augustine Florida, ran. Jim says the video is a little down and dirty, because he was facilitating the workshop as well as shooting the video, but hopes it still gets out the word about what’s happening in these events all … Read more
A friend writes: “I have a small book club reading Runaway Inequality as part of our Indivisible Suffragists Group. We will finish the first week in November. What should our next steps be? There are four of us.” We asked some Reversing Runaway Inequality trainers for their suggestions. Margarita Hernandez said: “There is a huge tax fight right now that folks should … Read more
The North Carolina State AFL CIO is hosting a professionally shot video of Les Leopold’s talk in Wilmington NC on September 19th. Les starts talking at about 9 minutes in. Click here to watch it.