The Great Wealth Divide!
“The Problem is This
Filthy Rotten System.”
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement
WEALTH DIVIDE KILLS
On Martin Luther King’s birthday, OxFam released a report detailing the shocking economic inequality in America and around the world. Most strikingly, the richest 85 people own as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the world’s population — that’s 3.5 billion people. Among the other findings in the report:
1. Half of the world’s wealth is owned by 1% of the population. 2. The top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half. 3. Since the late 1970s, tax rates for the richest have fallen in 29 of the 30 counties for which data is available. This means the wealthy are not only making more but paying a smaller percentage in taxes. 4. Global corporations routinely use their clout to avoid paying taxes in Africa, where poverty is most acute. 5. In the U.S. the top 1% captured 95% of the growth after the 2009 financial crisis. The bottom 90% actually became poorer. You can read the full report here.
Peace Demands
Economic Justice!
1.Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email ja@malu-aina.org http://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (January 24, 2014 – 644th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
