Harvard Carr CenterKonto zweryfikowane

"We have to tackle the underlying racist structures that occur in all our systems, in #employment, in #education, in #housing, in access to services including #healthcare.” -- @MargaretLHuang, President & CEO @splcenter, on finding the answers for economic justice.

.@pannocen gives a distinctly intersectional definition of #economicjustice attentive to how systems of power converge to render people & communities more or less vulnerable to state violence, marginalization & subordination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, class, etc.

"In order for women & girls to be free—particularly Black, Indigenous, and other women of color to be free—we must have an economy with an equitable distribution of resources that ensure every person can live with safety and dignity." --@pannocen

“What we have seen consistently is the growing use of a fine and fees system to deprive people of their rights and actually exacerbate the cycle of poverty.” — @MargaretLHuang

The movement to defund police & reinvest in marginalized communities is not just a hashtag but, according to @pannocen, "a significant & important policy intervention that can address how policing, law enforcement, & punishment facilitates economic marginalization.”

"When all you have is a hammer everything is a nail." -- @pannocen highlighting the overinvestment in policing and the need to dismantle systems of surveillance, criminalization, and punishment in order to disrupt systems of economic injustice.

According to @MargaretLHuang, we can fight for economic justice in three ways: (1) challenge false narratives about the poor strategically and across the board; (2) do more community organizing; and (3) and advocacy.