We responded to slavery with Abolition. We responded to the institutionalized oppression of women with the 19th Amendment. We responded to the Gilded Age with the establishment of organized labor. We responded to segregation with the civil rights movement. 2/5

And now it’s our turn. We can cut the cord with an aberrational chapter of history and it’s 50 year war on the middle-class. 3/5

Other generations had to reject specific institutional realities. We need to reject an economic paradigm, a matrix of corporate powers whose profits supersede safety, health, and well-being of the American people. 4/5