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Economic Justice vs Social Justice.

If we focus on the first, then we will get the second. At least that is what I am told. Sorry, I don't believe that for a moment. Trickle down Justice will not work and that is a fact.

No. These are issues that need to be tied together. It is not one without the other.

People of Color

What will your economic justice buy you?

Will you fear less when your child leaves the house in the morning?
Will you no longer feel the need to have "The Talk" with your children?
Will your child no longer be profiled, staked and shot in the back, while the perp a cop gets off stock free because he feared for his life.
Will you no longer feel discriminated against when you apply for a job.
Will you freely have the right to vote with the ease of the white community.
Will this end?
The School-to-Prison Pipeline Starts in Preschool

The school-to-prison pipeline, to my mind, is the most insidious arm of this country’s prison-industrial complex. Under the guise of protecting our children, we push many of them out of school and into prisons, limit their opportunities, fail to and/or undereducate them, all while feeding our addiction to mass incarceration and retribution that is not justice at all. That the students who find themselves funneled into the school-to-prison pipeline are predominantly black is further proof that the United States system of racist oppression chugs along through the rhetoric of colorblindness.

Now that we have the niceties out of the way, let’s talk about what really makes the school-to-prison pipeline the worst.
Henry Giroux on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
A study conducted by US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights shows that black preschoolers (yes, four and five year olds) make up almost half of all out-of-school suspensions for preschoolers. What any preschool student has to do in order to be suspended is beyond me. That said, black students are receiving the message — at younger and younger ages — that their behavior will be regarded differently, as inherently more disruptive and therefore more deserving of punishment. They are being denied the right to their formative years of education and socialization. And then we wonder why there is an “education gap.”

http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/31/the-school-to-prison-pipeline-starts-in-preschool/

LGBT

What will your economic justice buy you?

Will you be free to marry the one you love, freely and without fear?
Will you be able to express your sexual orientation at your job without fear of losing it.
Will you be able to walk down the street holding the hand the hand of the one you love without being assaulted?
Will you be able to adopt and raise the family you always wanted?
Will you have the right to be at the side of your beloved if they are hurt or dying.
Will this stop happening?

Gen Silent is a 2011 critically acclaimed documentary film, directed and produced by award winning filmmaker Stu Maddux. The documentary follows the lives of six LGBT seniors living in the Boston area who must choose if they will hide their sexuality in order to survive in the long-term health care system. It has been screened at numerous colleges and universities as well as in front of government agencies and healthcare organizations. It premiered at the Boston LGBT Film Festival and has won numerous awards at others.


The title of the film is a reference to the generations of older LGBT people who remain in the closet or re enter the closet out of concern for their safety or quality of life. As a result of the documentary, the term Gen Silent has increased in use as a way to refer to this group.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024640026

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What would you do if you were old, disabled or ill - and the person feeding you put down the spoon

What would you do if you were old, disabled or ill - and the person feeding you put down the spoon and said that you are going to hell unless you change your sexual preference?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017215990

Women

What will your economic justice buy you?

Will you finally be treated equally in what always has mans world?
Will you no longer fear being beaten by an abusive spouse or significant other.?
Will you no longer fear that lawmakers will refused to reauthorize VAWA?
Will you no longer fear being accused by the the people and the courts for your own rape?
Will you be allowed to control your own body, from abortion to birthcontrol decisions?
Will this stop happening?

Women or Objects?

Amidst the crowd of around 3000 people the artists portrayed them as bronze sculptures. The artists used performance art to protest for violence against women in a silent way. The performance art was to aware the public in an effective way and to get efficient response from the concerned authorities and the government.

The artists of “Women or Objects?” were Mahima Singh and the team from Youth safe (Dikshya Shah, Anusha Sapkota, Kabita Rai, Sanju Pariyar). The main message flown from this performance was to appeal to the people not to treat women just as mere objects and respect them and provide equal rights and dignity as their male counter parts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025506241

No More
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026181710

I say no to Economic Justice without Social Justice. They stand together or they do not. Trickle down justice will not work.