Election ’08: A Pro-Civil Justice Presidential Platform The Drum Major Institute’s latest report proposes common-sense policy measures to return the balance of power to regular Americans from the corporations who've rewritten the law in their own favor.
Corporations cannot be sent to jail like individuals. And fines, our most common means of punishing corporate wrongdoing, are to large multinationals what a few mosquitoes might be to a day at the beach for a CEO.
The civil justice system ensures that everyone, even powerful corporations and our government, abides by the laws that protect people against fraud, discrimination, injury from dangerous products, and other violations of their rights. More»
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Can We Talk About Poverty? By Corinne Ramey, TomPaine.com, July 14, 2008. Last Wednesday, I saw John Edwards speak during a press conference at the Yorkville Common Pantry, a food pantry and soup kitchen in Harlem. Although Edwards tried his best to talk about poverty, the press just didn't seem to care. More»
Death on a Hospital Floor By Kia Franklin, Washington Post's The Root, July 7, 2008. You'd think after Beatrice Vance of Illinois and Edith Isabel Rodriguez of California both died on the ER waiting room floor while hospital staff just looked on, that maybe hospitals would be on red alert to avoid this type of bad publicity—not to mention the loss of human life. But now there is the story of Esmin Green, 49, of New York. She, too, died on the hospital waiting room floor while patients and hospital staff looked on. More»
Women's Equality Event Clips on YouTube! On Monday, June 23 an esteemed panel of women including Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney; Hon. Christine Quinn, New York City Council Speaker; Diana Salas, Associate Director of the Women of Color Policy Network; Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, President and CEO of American Association of Publishers, Inc.; Olga Vives, Executive Vice President of the National Organization for Women; and Lisa Witter, Chief Operating Officer, Fenton Communications joined DMI to discuss the status of women in society and the policies necessary to close the gender gap. Missed the event? Watch video clips on YouTube now!You can also read blog coverage of the event on the DMIBlog. More»
DMI in the News: An Inadequate Analysis of Assimilation By Cristina Jimenez, El Diario, June 12, 2008. The complex debate on immigration has been full of myths about the assimilation of today’s immigrant population. They don’t want to learn English. They don’t want to learn American ways. Is it true? Are they assimilating, or aren’t they? While some elements of this question are clear, a new study proposes an analysis of immigrant assimililation anchored in certain measurements. More»
Watch Paid Sick Leave Clips on YouTube! Sara Flocks, who helped to pass San Francisco's first-in-the-nation paid sick leave law, spoke at DMI's Marketplace of Ideas event on paid sick leave. The panel included Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, the Co-sponsor of the Healthy Families Act, a national paid sick leave bill, New York City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, and David R. Jones, President & CEO of the Community Service Society of New York. Go to DMI's YouTube channel to watch clips of the event.
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