From Robin Hood to MLK, A Call for Economic Justice

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https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/28-6



A group of nurses, AIDS activists, students, transit workers, and community organizers have an answer to the growing economic inequality crisis plaguing the U.S. and are bringing that answer to lawmakers across the country next week.

Their solution: The Robin Hood tax—a small tax on Wall Street’s large-scale speculative trades that could generate hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue. Such a tax could build up America's social safety net and help lift many people out of poverty, the organizers say.

The groups will descend on 22 cities across the U.S. on April 4th in a series of vigils honoring the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

King "was slain in the midst of a campaign for economic justice that, in his last year, included an anti-poverty campaign and worker justice," organizers at National Nurses United write Friday.