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Responding to Virginia TechIn response to the shootings at Virginia Tech and the reactions in the media, we talked to Christine Ahn from the Korea Policy Institute, and Larry Bilick, a social worker in California, to sort through issues of immigration, race, gun violence, and forgiveness. Download the podcast here.
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The National Priorities Project focuses on changing federal tax and budget priorities by showing the local impact on communities, devising tools for grassroots activism and building bridges between social issue and peace groups.
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Citizen Engagement as a Force for Social Transformation
Read Kim Klein's opening speech at Concordia University’s Institute in Management and Community Development’s first ever Open University Summer Program. She discusses citizen engagement and movement building as forces for social transformation.
The ABC’s of U.S. Tax Policy: An Historical Perspective
From the days of George Washington to that of the present Administration, taxes have been a subject of national controversy.
The Indispensable Public Space
The Building Movement Project uses the shorthand “TIPS” (The Indispensable Public Space) to describe all our work related to exploring, enlarging, understanding, preserving and illuminating public space. This curriculum explores our complicated relationship to taxes, and thus, our very mixed feelings about how “public space” is to be financed.
MINI-CURRICULUM I: Talking About Taxes
A series of exercises to help understand the complexity of our relationship with taxes.
InterACT column: Gates, Buffett, World Poverty, Nonprofit Staff
In this column, Kim Klein talks about non-profit workers, voting, and tax policy.