General Secretary of @fightinequality. A Brit living in Joburg. @MandelaUCT alum. Views are mine, all mine.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined January 2009
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Jenny Ricks retweeted
Your salary lasts 3 business days.
Groceries cost an arm & a leg, rent is eating you alive & the IMF is in Bangkok discussing economic policies that could mean MORE austerity. 💀
At what point do the rich start making sacrifices?
✊🏽 bit.ly/FIACL
#CostofLivingCrisis #IMF
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As we wrapped our People’s Inequality Hearing in Bangkok earlier today, here’s what our panelist’s had to say in response to testimonies from activists from around the world.
Read for more:
fightinequality.org/blog/peo…
Join us on Wednesday 09:00-11:30 here in Bangkok
Register luma.com/izzsmu99
If you’re in Bangkok this week, join me at the @fightinequality’s People’s Hearing alongside the IMF & World Bank Annual Meetings. Hear directly from communities, advocates, and civil society about how debt, inequality, and economic policies shape everyday life.
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I’m looking forward to joining the @fightinequality’s People’s Inequality Hearing and sharing in conversations about inequality, debt, and economic justice.
@FightInequality @FiaZimbabwe @KenyaFIA @FIAsouthafrica @FightZambia @jenny_ricks @DefendersKE @VOCALAfrica_ @ForumCivESA
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The meeting that terrified the superpowers. And why its spirit matters now. 🌍✊🏾
Our own Haflah Leste Distinctah in @AJEnglish's new film on Bandung 1955 👇🏾
#Bandung #FightInequality – at Bandung, Indonesia
Global South countries tried to challenge the power of European nations in 1955, during the Bandung Conference in Indonesia. This latest Al Jazeera Originals documentary asks if the legacy of this 1955 conference is still ahead of us.
🔗 youtu.be/xpDU-Ib8VaA
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Nobody skipping meals is waiting for a footnote. What they are waiting for is action, and action comes from pressure, writes @jenny_ricks of @fightinequality. commondreams.org/opinion/mov…
15 years after Occupy Wall Street, a reminder that struggles against inequality have a long legacy.
inequality.org/article/15-ye…
Jenny Ricks retweeted
You pay tax on almost everything.
Your weekly groceries? Taxed.
The clothes you wear? Taxed.
Your water, electricity and internet? Taxed.
The fuel that barely lasts the week? Taxed.
And your wages? Taxed before you even see them.
You pay on what you earn and again on everything you spend. Billionaires and big corporations pay a fraction of what they owe, if they pay at all.
Do something about the cost of living crisis, sign here: bit.ly/FIACL
#CostOfLiving #TaxTheRich #WeThe99 #FightInequality
People in 43 countries have signed the petition so far. Make sure you add your name if your cost of living is out of control. Click here bit.ly/FIACL
Today, nearly 3,500 people hold more than US$20 trillion in wealth.
A record that should never exist.
The 1% hoards enough to end inequality several times over. Meanwhile nurses work double shifts and still can't cover rent, and parents skip meals so their kid can eat.
This didn't happen by accident. Someone chose it. We're not letting it slide.
Sign our Cost of Living Petition: bit.ly/FIACL
Make your government act.
#CostOfLiving #TaxTheRich #WeThe99 #FightInequality
Jenny Ricks retweeted
Today, nearly 3,500 people hold more than US$20 trillion in wealth.
A record that should never exist.
The 1% hoards enough to end inequality several times over. Meanwhile nurses work double shifts and still can't cover rent, and parents skip meals so their kid can eat.
This didn't happen by accident. Someone chose it. We're not letting it slide.
Sign our Cost of Living Petition: bit.ly/FIACL
Make your government act.
#CostOfLiving #TaxTheRich #WeThe99 #FightInequality
Jenny Ricks retweeted
As Zambia heads to the polls on 13 August, one issue can't be pushed aside: the rising cost of living.
Political violence may be making headlines, but millions of people are asking a different question: How will I afford my next meal?
No matter who wins the election, people deserve leaders who will tackle soaring food prices, rising housing costs, decent jobs, and quality public services.
Don't let the cost of living disappear from the conversation.
✍🏾 Demand action. Sign our Cost of Living Petition: bit.ly/FIACL
Jenny Ricks retweeted
1/ Last night in Joburg for the launch of How the International Monetary Fund Strangles Africa. Grateful to share the moment with Dalaya Ashenafi (on the left), the incisive Ethiopian political economist, and @jenny_ricks Ricks, the fearless General Secretary of @FightInequality
Very happy to be part of this event happening tonight. Hope to see you there if you are in Joburg
Johannesburg friends, the launch of How the International Monetary Fund Strangles Africa, my new book with @vijayprashad, will take place on 6th August, 6pm, at The Forge in downtown Johannesburg. Details below 👇🏿
Jenny Ricks retweeted
Elon Musk, in his latest interview to The Economist, said money won’t matter ten years from now.
This may be true for billionaires, but it still matters a lot to the millions of people who are struggling to afford food, healthcare, housing and basic rights. While unimaginable wealth reaches astronomic levels, public services are being pushed to the breaking point.
No one should be holding the amount of money this small elite earns everyday. Demand change now. Make your government act.
Sign our Cost of Living petition: bit.ly/FIACL
#TaxTheRich #TaxJustice #FightInequality #WeThe99 #CostOfLiving
Jenny Ricks retweeted
Gen Z just brought down a minister. When India's Chief Justice called jobless youth "cockroaches," they made it a badge of survival and built the Cockroach Janta Party. 1/2
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This crisis didn’t happen by accident. While people across the world choose between heating and eating, the companies behind the price spikes post record profits. It’s a political choice, and choices can change. Governments can bring in emergency price controls, tax the profiteers, invest in public services and cancel unjust debt. They’re choosing not to.
#WeThe99 #CostOfLiving #FightInequality #TaxTheRich
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Last week, communities across 8 counties gathered for Usawa Barazas to discuss the cost of living, the public health crisis, and growing inequality.
They put forward the people’s alternatives, showing that communities know what must change and are ready to lead it. #GDFI2026
Jenny Ricks retweeted
We can forge a more equitable world, so long as the people designing its institutions understand, and seek to redress, the imbalances of the global economy, writes @fightinequality’s @jenny_ricks. bit.ly/4fhivN6
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To design a multilateral system around the global majority, the international community must focus on building enforceable mechanisms that can provide these countries with greater fiscal autonomy, @fightinequality’s @jenny_ricks argues. bit.ly/4fhivN6
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Jenny Ricks calls for enforceable mechanisms that can provide the global majority with greater fiscal autonomy. project-syndicate.org/commen…