Walmart Arrests Dozens Who Sit-Down For $15/h Wage & Full-Time Hours
Martha Sellers and Maria Camarena, Walmart employees talk about workers and their supporters arrested outside a Walmart store calling on the company and its owners "the Waltons "to end the illegal threats to and retaliation against workers calling for $15 an hour and consistent, full-time work at the country s largest private employer. Hundreds of supporters rallied outside the store in Pico Rivera, CA the site of the first Walmart strikes in 2012 to buoy the strikers " meanwhile the Walmart behemoth brings in $16 billion in annual profits and its owners build on their $150 billion in wealth, the majority of Walmart workers are paid less than $25,000 a year. ******************************** The Fire Next Time: Ferguson & Beyond Communities Organize
Even were there to be an indictment of police officer Wilson in Ferguson, or of officer Pantelo for the strangulation of Eric Garner justice would remain elusive. As long as police have license to kill Black and Brown men and women, and as long as people of color are economically marginalized, and state policies that intimidate, harass, criminalize and result in the imprisonment of targeted Black and Brown people persist there is no justice, no peace! Thenjiwe McHarris discusses the significance of the protest movement in Ferguson and of UN Hearing she recently attended in Geneva where Ferguson was being discussed by The United Nations Committee Against Torture which heard testimony by the parents of Michael Brown
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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