June
FIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN JOBS PLAN! AND THE REVENUE TO PAY FOR IT!! TAX WEALTH NOT WORK!
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President Joe Biden delivers address in support of The American Jobs Plan, 2021 |
The March on Billionaires in New York, 2021 |
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Senator Elizabeth Warren announces Wealth Tax plan, 2021 |
Amazon workers protest, 2021 |
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“Wall Street didn’t build this country. The middle class built this country. And unions build the middle class.”
– President Joe Biden
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Presidential Update:
President Biden has released his full budget proposal for FY22. The president is fulfilling his promise to “Build Back Better” by proposing bold investments in America’s communities and its workers. President Biden’s budget prioritizes creating good-paying jobs and protections for our air, water, lands, biodiversity, wildlife, and oceans. The budget also increases investments by over $14 billion for climate action. President Biden’s budget also proposes the largest ever investment in environmental justice communities to support the BIPOC and low-income communities that disproportionately bear the burdens of pollution and the impacts of the climate crisis. We can make these bold investments now by making the rich and wealthy corporations pay their fair share instead of placing yet another burden on the working middle-class and underserved communities.
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The Biden jobs plan will rebuild America while eliminating tax breaks that encourage corporations to outsource jobs and shift profits to offshore tax havens.
It will invest in strengthening American manufacturing, helping to keep and create more American jobs here at home. The Biden jobs plan will help small businesses recover and compete with big corporations. It will close loopholes that allow big corporations to avoid paying their fair share of taxes and provide more support to small businesses to get them back on their feet and hire more workers.
Biden’s jobs and infrastructure plan is fully paid for by making corporations contribute their fair share. Fifty-five of America’s biggest corporations paid no federal income taxes last year, and the wealth of just 650 billionaires rose by 50% during the pandemic, all while millions of working Americans suffered.
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We Celebrate Pride Month. |
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“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now OK to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.”
– Senator Tammy Baldwin
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“Please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.”
– Alice Walker
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Tax the Rich!: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer
The vast majority of Americans—71 percent—believe the economy is rigged in favor of the rich. Guess what? They’re right.
How do you rig an economy? You start with the tax code. In Tax the Rich! former BlackRock executive Morris Pearl, the millionaire chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, and Erica Payne, the organization’s founder, take readers on an engaging and enlightening insider’s tour of the nation’s tax code, explaining exactly how “the rich”—and the politicians they control—manipulate the U.S. tax code to ensure the rich get richer, and everyone else is left holding the bag.
Blunt and irreverent, Tax the Rich! unapologetically dismantles the “intellectual” justifications for a tax code that virtually guarantees destabilizing levels of inequality and consequent social unrest. Infographics, charts, cartoons, and lively characters including “the Werkhardts” and “the Slumps” make a complicated subject accessible (and, yes, sometimes even funny) and illuminate the practical reforms that can put America on the road to stability and shared prosperity before it’s too late. Never have the arguments in this book been more timely—or more important.
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*LGBTQ+ Pride Month
*Caribbean-American Heritage Month
*Black Lives Matter Month
*Immigrant Heritage Month
*Start of Hurricane Season
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June 6: Jobs Report
June 15: DACA Anniversary
June 19: Juneteenth
June 28-July 7: Senate Work Period
July 2: Civil Rights Act Anniversary
July 2: Jobs Report
July 4: 4th of July & COVID Progress Update
July 15: Child Tax Credit Payments Begin
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From now until Congress leaves for the August district work period, we need to show Democrats’ we have their backs, up the sense of urgency across the country, and continue to call out Republicans’ efforts to destroy our democracy. And we’ve got to make this July recess (June 28th-July 10th) big. We’re encouraging local activists to begin planning their visible, public, press-worthy events now to tell Senators – Democrats and Republicans alike – that the American people are showing up to demand a democracy that works for all the people and that we need them to act urgently on the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and DC statehood now, no excuses. |
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We Celebrate & Remember Paul Booth |
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He was a chief organizer of the 1965 Anti-Vietnam War March on Washington. In 1966, he immersed himself in the growing labor movement and secured the first union contract for thousands of state and city workers in Chicago, IL. He worked at AFSCME for over 4 decades and was on the boards of ROC, NELP, and Jobs with Justice, leaving behind many leading organizers whom he mentored. Paul believed public service workers are crucial to the future of a government that works for all of us and to a better life for all.
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Featured Economic Champion! |
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Heather is a Trustee Emeritus on the Demos Board and author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.
Over the years, McGhee’s work has had a profound influence on public policy. Her efforts at Demos as both staff member and president have led to achievements that include: landmark consumer protections to rein in credit card abuses and save consumers over $50 billion in fees; critical contributions to policies that rewrote the rules for how financial institutions operate; billions in wage increases at large companies and for government contractors; four million low-income voters registered at DMVs and public agencies; and pro-democracy reforms, such as public campaign financing, same-day registration, and automatic voter registration, won in a dozen states and Washington, D.C.
As an executive, McGhee transformed the organization on multiple levels. She led a successful strategic planning and rebranding process. She designed a Racial Equity Organizational Transformation which more than doubled the staff’s racial diversity, produced an original racial equity curriculum for staff professional development and led to a complete overhaul of the organization’s research, litigation and campaign strategies using a racial equity lens.
McGhee currently serves on the boards of Color of Change, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Foundations US Programs.
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When we organize, we can change the world. |
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We are so glad to be your partner in this movement for democracy and justice for all.
– Heather Booth, Lilly Rivlin, and the Film Team
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