Deepak Bhargava is executive director of the Center for Community Change, a national nonprofit organizing low income communities, supporting grassroots groups and community organizations for social justice.

He has written in the New York Times, the Nation, the Washington Post, and has testified before Congress more than 20 times. Glen Beck has said about him that “people should be scared.”

This article is adapted from a speech he gave to the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD).