Red Emma's is probably the most socially conscious restaurant in Baltimore. You can read more about them HERE. Here's a special event that's coming this week:
Sam Pizzigati presents "The Rich Don't Always Win"
Wednesday Jan 23, 7PM @ Red Emma's
800 St. Paul St. * Baltimore, MD 21202 * (410) 230-0450 * info@redemmas.org
Red Emma's is open Monday through Friday from 10AM-10PM, Saturday from 10AM-8PM, and Sunday from 10AM-6PM.
America’s rich have never been richer, or more politically dominant. Wealth inequality is at an all-time high for the last 100 years. America’s richest 1 percent now holds more wealth—over $2 trillion more—than America’s entire bottom 90 percent.
So what’s the good news? Over the first half of the twentieth century, the American people took on plutocracy. And won. The Rich Don’t Always Win tells the American story of money lords, fortune bankers, and tobacco kings...and the populist movement of unionists and muckrakers that blew it all apart.
Beginning in the early 1900s, a movement began to end the reign of plutocracy and strive toward a more equal society. These early activists shared revulsion for the concentrated wealth and power they saw amassing in the hands of a few and struggled for two generations to limit the power of this wealthy minority. From the street protests and legislative action this movement inspired came equalizing institutions, including the revolutionary system of steeply graduated progressive tax rates and trade unions that protected the rights of workers.
This lively popular history speaks directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. The Rich Don't Always Win outfits citizens with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream. With a new century at their disposal, the American people can do it again…if they just remember the power that they have.
A veteran labor journalist, SAM PIZZIGATI has written widely on economic inequality for both popular and scholarly readers. His op-eds and articles on income and wealth have appeared in a host of major American dailies, from the New York Times to the Miami Herald, and a broad variety of magazines and journals. His last book, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives, won a coveted “outstanding title” rating of the year Choice rating from the American Library Association.
In 2008, Pizzigati played a lead role on the team that generated The Nation magazine’s special issue on extreme inequality. That issue went on to win the 2009 Sidney Hillman Prize for magazine journalism. Pizzigati ran the publishing operations of America's largest union, the 3.2 million-member National Education Association, for twenty years and now serves as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. His online weekly on excess and inequality, Too Much, goes to a national audience of journalists, researchers, and economic justice activists.
Pizzigati has appeared as an expert commentator on inequality on 150+ radio and TV talk and news programs, from Pacifica to Fox Business News. Beginning in the early 1900s, a movement began to end the reign of plutocracy and strive toward a more equal society. These early activists shared revulsion for the concentrated wealth and power they saw amassing in the hands of a few and struggled for two generations to limit the power of this wealthy minority. From the street protests and legislative action this movement inspired came equalizing institutions, including the revolutionary system of steeply graduated progressive tax rates and trade unions that protected the rights of workers.
This lively popular history speaks directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. The Rich Don't Always Win outfits citizens with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream. With a new century at their disposal, the American people can do it again…if they just remember the power that they have.
A veteran labor journalist, SAM PIZZIGATI has written widely on economic inequality for both popular and scholarly readers. His op-eds and articles on income and wealth have appeared in a host of major American dailies, from the New York Times to the Miami Herald, and abroad variety of magazines and journals.
His last book, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives, won a coveted “outstanding title” rating of the year Choice rating from the American Library Association. In 2008, Pizzigati played a lead role on the team that generated The Nation magazine’s special issue on extreme inequality. That issue went on to win the 2009 Sidney Hillman Prize for magazine journalism. Pizzigati ran the publishing operations of
America's largest union, the 3.2 million-member National Education Association, for twenty
years and now serves as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington,
DC. His online weekly on excess and inequality, Too Much, goes to a national audience of
journalists, researchers, and economic justice activists. Pizzigati has appeared as an expert
commentator on inequality on 150+ radio and TV talk and news programs, from Pacifica to Fox Business News.
