-Chicago Sun Times editorial: “Shrink wage gap by raising tax on rich”

This Labor Day is an ideal time to spend a few minutes thinking about, well, labor.  Like many holidays, Labor Day’s meaning has changed over time: from workers—their rights, their health and safety, their struggle against an economic system that favors the already rich—to Labor Day Cookouts and Labor Day Sales(!!!).

While certainly there’s nothing wrong with relaxing and having a party over the long weekend, at the same time we should be thinking about workers around the world and what we can do to FIGHTclassism along with them.

Today, FIGHTprejudice officers joined the 32nd Annual Labor Day Solidarity March in Wilmington, CA.  Wilmington is a large, mostly Spanish-speaking part of Los Angeles where local shipping docs have broken unions (with “independent contractors,” who have many fewer rights and benefits) and inflicted an astronomical asthma rate on local youth.

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One of many organizations represented was Move to Amend, a group dedicated to fighting back against the recent Citizens United opinion, which has been a windfall for Tea Party and other corporate-backed political causes.  

While it should be pretty clear to all of us that corporations (1) are not people, (2) do not deserve the Right to Free Speech, and (3) should not have influence over our electoral politics, there are five members of the Supreme Court who either don’t get it, don’t care, or have some questionable motives.

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So, on this Labor Day, FIGHTprejudice urges you to do what you can to support Move to Amend or otherwise speak out against the Citizens United, the five twisted Supreme Court Justices who support it, and its potentially devastating consequences: an ever-expanding income gap and the entrenchment of the top ten percent.