Economic Injustice Affects Us All: A Lesson from Viva La Causa

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Economic injustice was at the heart of la causa. Growers made their fortunes while farmworkers struggled to get by. Such disparity is common not just in the fields, but throughout the U.S. economy.

In 1998, hundreds of people from around the country went to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress about the wage gap - the disparity in wages between workers and corporate executives. While there, to raise public awareness about the issue, they descended on the Washington Monument - which stands 555 feet tall. The Monument, they told onlookers, represented CEO pay. Organizers then placed a much, much smaller replica of the Washington Monument next to the real thing. The replica represented worker pay. In 2003, it would have stood just 16 inches tall, a ratio of 419 to one; the typical CEO's annual income was equivalent to the incomes of 419 people who worked for him or her.

http://www.tolerance.org/activity/economic-injustice-affects-us-all-lesson-viva-la-causa

I wonder how tall the worker monument would be now

[T Wolf]

1. It's a hole in the ground. And you have to buy a ladder to climb back up to ground level. nt