On injustice/inequality

Inequality and Health

How does inequality and health relate? Increasing evidence from scientists the world over indicates that many health outcomes — everything from life expectancy to infant mortality and obesity — can be linked to the level of economic inequality within a given population. Greater economic inequality appears to lead to worse health outcomes.
See http://inequality.org/inequality-health/

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

Posted on  in Societal impacts, Videos on Inequality

See http://inequality.org/richard-wilkinson-economic-inequality-harms-societies/

Chuck Collins: Taxing the Wealthy

Posted on  in Taxes, Videos on Inequality, Wealth

See http://inequality.org/chuck-collins-taxing-wealthy/

We're Not Broke, Just Twisted: Extreme Wealth Inequality in America

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rpbRXXntGM8
We Are The 99 Percent - go to http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

Occupy Wall Street -

is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

Kapitalens nye ideologi

Det er ganske enkelt vanskeligt ikke at være positiv over for nordiske landes udgave af social solidaritet — og at benægte, at lige netop denne solidaritetsform en rigtig god ting under den økonomiske krise: Et relativt ligestillet folk er et velstillet folk i den nuværende situation.

Meddelelsen her er derfor også følgende: Sats videre på folkelig konkurrenceevne. Hvorfor? Liberalismen dør ud, da ulighed ikke er profitabel. Lighed gennem læring ser ud til at vinde. Sagt på anden vis: Nordisk kapitalisme er mindre autoritær end asiatisk kapitalisme, men grundene til, at vi sammenligner os med Asien frem for de liberalistiske lande er enkle: Liberalismen fungerer ikke længere, heller ikke som den nye europæiske kapitalismes husfilosofi. Det gør derimod en ny liberalsocialisme, som har gode chancer for at finde fodfæste i de nordiske lande.

Claus Holm er prodekan for formidling ved DPU, Aarhus Universitet

This #ows movement empowers real people to create real change from the bottom up. We want to see a general assembly in every backyard, on every street corner because we don't need Wall Street and we don't need politicians to build a better society.

go to - http://occupywallst.org/


From Daniel Dorling: INJUSTICE - Why social inequality persists. The Policy Press 2010
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This book aims to help redefine injustice. While no one would claim to be on the side of injustice, without the continued spread of beliefs in support of injustice it would not survive long in its present form. Now that we have enough resources for all, much that was previously seen as unfortunate has become unjust.
The five tenets of injustice are that: elitism is efficient, exclusion is necessary, prejudice is natural, greed is good and despair is inevitable. Because of widespread and growing opposition to the five key unjust beliefs, including that so many should now be "losers", most of those advocating injustice are careful with their words. And those who believe in these tenets are the majority in power across almost all rich countries. Although many of those who are powerful may want to make the conditions of life a little less painful for others, they do not believe that there is a cure for modern social ills, or even that a few inequalities can be much alleviated. Rather, they believe that just a few children are sufficiently able to be fully educated and only a few of those are then able to govern; the rest must be led. They believe that the poor will always be with us no matter how rich we are. They have also come to believe that most others are naturally, perhaps genetically, inferior to them. and many of this small group believe that their friends' and their own greed is helping the rest of hunanity as much as humanity can be helped; they are convinced that to argue against such a counsel of despair is foolhardy. It is their belief that uphold injustice.
This book brings together evidence which shows that these beliefs are unfounded. The evidence also shows how people who end up in power come so easily to hold these beliefs, or become converted to them, and how their beliefs provide false justification for those who benefit most from injustice.
See The Equality Trust  HERE