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Tuesday July 26, 2011
Report from the Field: Southern Solidarity Summer
National - The setting of our Southern Solidarity Summer program happens to be the birthplace of the construction of race and racism. In the late 1600s Virginia's planter elite faced the threat of overthrow as they were greatly outnumbered by the alliances that were being built by indentured white servants and Black slaves in the name of freedom.Read More >
Monday July 25, 2011
EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: Stop the Attacks on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security!
National - Tuesday, 7/26, Noon, In Front of Every Congressional Office in America This weekend, it became 100% clear that Republicans would rather see America default, Social Security checks stop going out and unemployment soar than give one inch on their position: that the very richest people and most profitable corporations shouldn't pay one penny more in taxes. They're proposing trillions in spending cuts but no tax increases. No kidding.Read More >
Thursday June 30, 2011
Headed South for Freedom
DC Metro - Almost 50 years after students and activists from around the country transformed Mississippi through an aggressive program of voter organizing during the legendary Freedom Summer of 1964, organizers from New York, California, and Florida will join Virginians in launching a new era of civil rights voter organizing this summer.Read More >
Wednesday June 01, 2011
Announcing our new Executive Director, Rachel Laforest!
National - As we near the 4th anniversary of the founding of the Right to the City Alliance, it is with great pleasure that I announce that the National Steering Committee has hired Rachel Laforest to serve as our very first Executive Director!Read More >
Monday May 30, 2011
Greed Gone Wild--A Remedy is At Hand
National - An epidemic of corporate greed is spreading uncontrollably across the United States, wreaking havoc on millions of working families, eliminating jobs and taking homes. The only cure is for local, state and federal governments to deliver the antidote, commonly known as "Pay Your Fair Share."Read More >
Tuesday April 19, 2011
VIDEO: Seven Cities Love the Tax the Rich Shuffle!
National - What do Carnival Cruises, Bank of America, Goldmen Sachs and Citigroup have in common? All of these wealthy corporations do not pay their fair share of taxes. We paid them a visit on tax day to teach them a lesson about greed and the need for sharing - A DANCE LESSON!Read More >
Monday April 18, 2011
See Video from today's Tax the Rich Shuffle Flashmob Actions in 7 Cities
National - Right to the City Alliance successfully took on greed gone wild with Tax the Rich Shuffle flashmobs in 7 cities. In Providence, they went inside and did some banking at Bank of America and then started the shuffle. In Miami, an action was held at Carnival Cruises. In San Francisco, a marriage took place at City Hall between Corporations and City Council. In Alexandria, VA people did the shuffle inside a Bank of America branch. In Boston, people went to Goldmen Sachs and Bank of America. In Los Angeles the shuffle went to Citigroup and Bank of America. In New York, the shuffle was in front of the main post office.Read More >
Monday April 18, 2011
NATIONAL TAX DAY FLASHMOB TARGETS WEALTHY CORPORATIONS TO PAY FAIR SHARE
Boston - Thousands of community members, including unemployed and underemployed workers and people who have faced foreclosure, danced and sang the Tax the Rich shuffle. The "flashmob" style dance was performed inside bank offices, corporate headquarters, City Halls and at post offices on tax day in seven major cities.Read More >
Saturday April 09, 2011
NATIONAL TAX DAY FLASHMOB TARGETS WEALTHY CORPORATIONS TO PAY FAIR SHARE
National - Thousands of community members, including unemployed and underemployed workers and people who have faced foreclosure, will dance and sing the Tax the Rich shuffle. The flashmob style dance will be performed inside bank offices, corporate headquarters, City Halls and at post offices on tax day in seven major cities. The dancers who are part of the Right to the City Alliance, will be singing that wealthy corporations and individuals should "pay what they owe, give up the dough,"in order to provide the necessary revenue for job creation and community investment.Read More >
Thursday March 03, 2011
Major Protest At Capitol - Grassroots Groups Demand Cuomo Reject Tax Cuts for Millionaires
New York City - Grassroots community leaders from Right to the City, including CAAAV, Community Voices Heard, FUREE, Picture the Homeless, Queers for Economic Justice, and VOCAL-NY held a major protest at the state capitol yesterday. The protest further defined the choice facing Governor Cuomo between tax cuts for millionaires and investing in healthcare, education, safety net programs and other public services ordinary New Yorkers rely on.Read More >
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