Residents of Detroit Are Fighting Back After Foreclosure Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-14
In Detroit, a showdown between progressive lawmakers and the city is taking on racist housing policies that robbed African Americans in Detroit of their homes and widened the racial wealth gap. On Thursday, the Coalition for Property Tax Justice announced a class-action lawsuit against the city of Detroit, Wayne County and the state of Michigan in response to unfair property tax foreclosures. One in four Detroit properties have been subject to property tax foreclosure, a level comparable only to tax foreclos…
truthout.org/video/residents-of-detroit-are-fighting-back-after-foreclosure-crisis/

Lula Inspired by his Meeting with Pope Francis
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-14
Increasing global inequality, environmental crisis, and forging solidarity-driven alternatives for the economy were some of the topics Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Pope Francis discussed on Thursday at the Vatican. | RELATED | Brazil: Lula Rejects Candidacy for 2022 Presidential Elections | After the meeting, Lula spoke with journalists about a me…
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How the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Will Increase Inequality
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal | commondreams.org | 2020-02-14
Many industries in the U.S. are dominated by just a handful of companies, such as Amazon and Apple. (Photo: Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/apple_5.jpeg …
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Don't believe in class struggle? Read J.P. Morgan's report to wealthy clients
Tim Libretti | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-14
Mainstream media, largely corporate-owned, loves to avoid addressing the realities of class, and particularly of class struggle, at every turn. While we don't hear the voices of the 99%, we hear plenty from the 1% decrying the slightest reference to class struggle in the United States. The wealthy often complain when sane and reasonable minds …
peoplesworld.org/article/dont-believe-in-class-struggle-read-j-p-morgans-report-to-wealthy-clients/

Detroit Overtaxed Residents by $600M, Causing Foreclosure Crisis. Residents Are Now Fighting Back
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-14
In Detroit, a showdown between progressive lawmakers and the city is taking on racist housing policies that robbed African Americans in Detroit of their homes and widened the racial wealth gap. On Thursday, the Coalition for Property Tax Justice announced a class-action lawsuit against the city of Detroit, Wayne County and the state of Michigan in response to unfair property tax foreclosures. One in four Detroit properties have been subject to property tax foreclosure, a level comparable only to tax foreclosure rates during the Great Depression. According to legal experts, many of the foreclosures were caused by…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/14/detroit_class_action_lawsuit_foreclosures

They have no shame!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-14
Chicago, IL – The latest episode in the Jussie Smollett saga continues to unfold as the campaign to rid Cook County of the first honest, progressive, Black woman state's attorney in county history, Kim Foxx, reaches lower and lower into the barrel of dirty tricks, a la Roger Stone and Donald Trump. And make no mistake about it: this is not about rooting out favoritism to the wealthy in the state's attorney's office, as cynically declared by Bill Conway, the billionaire Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) candidate running against her. It's about getting rid of the first state's attorney in Cook County history who has…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/2/13/they-have-no-shame

Trump Doesn't Hate Welfare When It Goes to Wealthy White Farmers
Bryce Covert | thenation.com | 2020-02-14
Trump Doesn't Hate Welfare When It Goes to Wealthy White Farmers…
thenation.com/article/economy/welfare-chauvinism/

Don't believe in class struggle? Read J.P. Morgan's report to wealthy clients
Tim Libretti | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-14
Mainstream media, largely corporate-owned, loves to avoid addressing the realities of class, and particularly of class struggle, at every turn. While we don't hear the voices of the 99%, we hear plenty from the 1% decrying the slightest reference to class struggle in the United States. The wealthy often complain when sane and reasonable minds …
peoplesworld.org/article/dont-believe-in-class-struggle-read-j-p-morgans-report-to-wealthy-clients/

Appalachia Gets Special Funding. The Black Rural South Deserves It Too
Greg Kaufmann | thenation.com | 2020-02-14
Appalachia Gets Special Funding. The Black Rural South Deserves It Too.
thenation.com/article/politics/black-belt-southern-poverty/