Jenny Ricks
@jenny_ricks
Global Convenor of @fightinequality. A Brit living in Joburg. @MandelaUCT alum. Views are mine, all mine.
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http://www.fightinequality.org 22-01-2009 17:24:17
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Today we celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility🎉 Never forget, we can only achieve equality when everyone has the same rights of freedom, economic opportunities, access to healthcare, dignity, and safety. We must all stand together to #FightInequality 🏳️🌈
Proud to join such distinguished company as Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب Jenny Ricks asad rehman Nick Dearden in the latest issue of Third World Network 's Third World Resurgence twn.my/title2/resurge… with a republishing of my recent piece for New Internationalist on Climate Capitalism
Are you a 'Resolutionary?'
A powerful thread from Brian Tamuka Kagoro to reflect on as you switch on your computer to draft that speech/talking points/email/strategy/concept note, today and the days to come. 👇
#LetFreedomSing
The ones who benefit from inequality will never fix inequality. We don’t need a yearly summit to discuss solutions. It’s simple: wealth taxes on the rich and an end to the exploitation of workers.
#FightInequality #TaxTheRich #betterthandavos
'Quite frankly, I think that we’re at a stage where we need another Jubilee moment — a debt cancellation policy' Mia Amor Mottley is quite right with this one
#CancelTheDebt
politico.eu/article/cancel…
Please watch this simple and accessible video - tax systems promote inequality and rich getting richer Jenny Ricks
In the 1880s, anti-child labor advocates blamed the rise in child labor on the greed of the country's 'money kings' and demanded to #TaxTheRich .
Let's do the same today.
Dear Rishi Sunak and David Cameron,
❗️ Until the UK Government calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and suspends arms sales to Israel, it is complicit in the slaughter of innocent civilians taking place daily in Gaza. (1/2)
#CeasefireNOW