AC Pharos - Empowering our Communities to Combat Economic Injustice
We strive to be a hub for community leaders to inform research driven activism. This is a place where research by conscious economists, ecologists, and community insights meet.
Newsletter consists of curated content focused on community action: giving people the tools they need to combat economic and environmental injustice in their community. Updates Weekly on Fridays at 12pm EST.
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Environmental Justice: What Happens After the Mines Close? Reposted from Monica Potts at Sierra magazineFor the people of Harlan County, Kentucky, climate change brings about a specific sort of cultural and economic disorientation: The coal-mining industry ...
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Economic Empowerment: The hidden tax: Average Americans pay a tax of 74% that they don't know about and isn't in the media Reposted from David Akadjian at Daily Kos In American media, we hear a lot about the taxes that the wealthy want to cut: Income taxes, estate taxes, and corporate taxes ...
Posted Apr 19, 2019, 8:40 AM by Rahni Sumler -
Perspective: Policy recommendations to the 116th Congress for the preservation of public lands Posted from Kathy DeCoster, VP & Director of Federal Affairs at The Trust for Public Land The Trust for Public Land is a U.S non-profit organization with ...
Posted Apr 10, 2019, 5:46 PM by Rahni Sumler -
Perspectives: The Missing Black Millennial Reposted from Reniqua Allen at The New RepublicOn a cold winter morning this year, I stepped on a downtown 6 train in New York City. I had just come ...
Posted Apr 10, 2019, 4:40 PM by Rahni Sumler -
Media Accountability: Confirmed-- GOP's tea party win under Obama got twice as much media coverage as 2018 Blue Wave Reposted from Eric Boehlert at Daily Kos Last year, Democrats posted their best midterm cycle win since Watergate, flipping 40 seats in the House as part of a sweeping blue ...
Posted Mar 29, 2019, 7:56 AM by Rahni Sumler
