Join us to make calls to re-elect Jamaal Bowman to Congress! In April we threw down for Summer Lee making nearly 60,000 phone calls and helping her win big- now its time for us to show our power again and keep Jamaal in the house fighting for all of us.

Jamaal Bowman is running a grassroots campaign and is up against big GOP money and attacks from groups like AIPAC. In his time in congress he has consistently delivered for his district including $1 billion in and critical and historic investments in gun violence prevention, health care, and climate action.

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to hear journalist KIM KELLY, author of "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" at the annual meeting of the Michigan Labor History Society.

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LIBERATION ROAD and Jerry Harris

MAY 30, 2024

In 2022, the Netherlands ranked number two in the world for foreign direct investments (FDI). Over $3.2 trillion in capital flowed out of the small country into investments all around the world, outranking everybody but the U.S.

Moreover, in 2022 the Netherlands received more incoming FDI from the U.S. than any country other than the UK, some $944 billion. In fact, between 2012 and 2017 it ranked between number one and four each year for incoming foreign direct investments–a better record than China’s.

Besides the Netherlands, where would you assume most U.S. capital is invested? Maybe China, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, or Saudi Arabia? You would be wrong on all accounts. Here are the top nine countries that received FDI outflows from the U.S. in 2022: (Chart above).

So, what is going on and what does this tell us about global capitalism? Most of this money is not going into these countries to acquire or build factories. It comprises capital flows into financial shells and firms that flow out into other investments. This money also includes profits that sit in financial institutions to avoid taxes.

This goes back to my first column on offshore finance known as non-resident capital–that constructed world for transnational capital, with its own rules operating in offshore financial centers (OFC). These centers capture the largest percentage of offshore capital stocks and flows globally. Some, like the Cayman Islands, attract capital mainly from investment funds and banks, while the Netherlands and Luxembourg act as gateways for transnational corporations. Hong Kong gives access to China. The system functions as an integrated offshore world in which global financial institutions and a handful of powerful law and accounting firms keep the legal mechanisms, treaties, and data operating. ...Read More

Please join the NLG D.C. chapter, the NLG Mass Incarceration Committee, Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, and Muslim Counterpublics Lab for this inside look at the current state of the U.S. prison system.

Lyle May has spent over twenty years residing on death row in North Carolina. In the release of his book by Haymarket Books, he tells his story, offering a scathing critique of the carceral system through an abolitionist lens. Please join us to hear directly from Lyle, who will call in from death row for fifteen minute increments, recounting his journey and discussing his important book which Mariame Kaba calls “essential reading.”

Lyle has earned a certificate in paralegal studies and is currently finishing a degree in criminal justice at Ohio University. He is a journalist, activist, and speaker. Sundiata Jawanza of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, will also be in attendance.

State and city agencies track deaths, reporting the overall count to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Maryland and Baltimore officials, often citing medical privacy concerns, have not published more detailed information on overdoses that is readily available elsewhere. ...Read More