According to Oxfam, Credit Suisse and Forbes the top 1% will own more than 50% of the world's wealth by 2016.
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The November before his death, Dr.King tied together civil and human rights with economic justice with these words: "Violence has been the inseparable twin of materialism, the hallmark of its grandeur." In other words, civil rights only addressed the tip of the iceberg. The underlying cause of brutality and psychological violence was an economic system that perpetrated and relied on economic disparity, manipulation and injustice.
Imagine what shape our economy would be in if all those who want to work had a job.
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