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ECONOMIC MELTDOWN FUNNIES (December 2008) is a co-production of Jobswith Justice and the Institute for Policy Studies–Program on Inequality and theCommon Good. Visit us on-line at www.economicmeltdownfunnies.org.Text by Chuck Collins & Nick ThorkelsonDrawings by Nick ThorkelsonThanks to: Sarah Anderson, Cynthia Bargar, Doyle Canning, John Cavanagh, DickCluster, Krista Hanson, Chris Hartman, Arthur MacEwan, Dedrick Muhammad, SamPizzigati, Susan Rice, and Francis Tobin.ABOUT USNICK THORKELSON is a cartoonist and graphic designer, whose work has appearedin the Boston Globe, Dollars & Sense magazine, and comics anthologies about SDSand the IWW. He is working on a book-length comics memoir about his adventuresin San Francisco at the end of the ’sixties. Website: www.nickthorkelson.comCHUCK COLLINS is an organizer and senior scholar at the Institute for PolicyStudies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Hecoordinates the Working Group on Extreme Inequality (www.extremeinequality.org).JOBS WITH JUSTICE (www.jwl.org) is anational network that engages workers andallies in campaigns to win justice in workplacesand in communities where working families live.JwJ was founded in 1987 with the vision oflifting up workers’ rights struggles as part of alarger campaign for economic and social justice.Jobs with Justice has more than 40 affiliatedcoalitions in 25 states around the country,coalitions that bring together labor, religious,student and community organizations that arecommitted to each other for the long haul.INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: Program on Inequality and theCommon Good (www.exttremeinequality.org). The Institute for PolicyStudies turns ideas into action for peace, justice and the environment. Westrengthen social movements with independent research, visionary thinking,and links to the grassroots, scholars and elected officials. The Program onInequality and the Common Good focuses on the dangers that growinginequality pose for U.S. democracy, economic health and civic life. TheProgram coordinates the Working Group on Extreme Inequality.

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Stay Up To Date with our Comics & Actions atwww.economicmeltdownfunnies.orgJobs with Justice (www.jwj.org). Check out our Take Action section and find anaffiliate close to you.Working Group on Extreme Inequality (www.extremeinequality.org) wasfounded in 2007 to challenge the concentrated wealth and power that increasingly sitat the top of our economic ladder. Based at the Institute for Policy Studies, our workincludes mobilization, education and advocacy for public policies that not only lift thefloor and reduce poverty –but address the concentration of wealth and income.THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: HOW DID IT HAPPEN?See on-line educational resources at www.extremeinequality.org and www.jwj.org.ARTICLE: Walden Bello, “Wall Street Meltdown Primer.”A global perspective on financial bubbles and the crisis of overproduction incapitalism leading to the current crisis. www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5560.SOLUTIONS: WHAT CAN WE DO?There are a number of coalitions forming and engaging in activities. Visitwww.economicmeltdownfunnies.org to find out the latest action campaigns.POLICY BRIEF: “Sensible Plan For Recovery,” from the Institute for PolicyStudies Download a 5-page PDF overview of a comprehensive plan to stabilize MainStreet. www.ips-dc.org/reports/#752.TALKING POINTS: On the Economic Meltdown, from the Institute for PolicyStudies: http:www.ips-dc.org/reports/#845ARTICLE: “Ten Ways to Bailout Wall Street (and Main Street) withoutSoaking the Taxpayer” by Chuck Collins and Dedrick Muhammad.www.alternet.org/workplace/100223/.ARTICLE: David Korten, “Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy,”YES! Magazine Winter 2009. Available at: www.yesmagazine.org/beyondbailouts.Find Up-to-Date Action Links atwww.economicmeltdownfunnies.org