by Terrance Heath | Aug 29, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Unfinished March
Update: This morning, I wrote that fast food workers were expected to walk off their jobs in 35 cities today. They've done way more than that. Fast food workers in 60 cities walked off the job today, in the biggest strike ever to hit the $200 billion dollar fast food...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 28, 2013 | Progressive Vision, The Unfinished March
This is what a missed opportunity looks like: When President Obama finished his speech at the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday afternoon at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, the crowd that lined the Reflecting Pool applauded briefly,...
by Jesse Jackson | Aug 28, 2013 | The Unfinished March
Today, on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “Dream” oration, President Barack Obama will speak from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, joined by former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Much of the press is...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 27, 2013 | The Unfinished March
As we remember Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, it is a good time to reflect on our own dreams of what our society could become. What is my dream? It all starts with jobs. But it goes on from there. This week Terrance Heath wrote, in "Fifty Years Later:...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 26, 2013 | The Unfinished March
When Bayard Rustin addressed the March on Washington in 1963, he said this: "We demand that there be an increase in the national minimum wage so that men may live in dignity." The crowd cheered in response. But after fifty years of commemorating that march, after...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 26, 2013 | The Unfinished March
On Saturday, thousands came to Washington, to walk in the footsteps of those who came to the capital 50 years ago, for the "March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom." The event became an iconic moment for the African-American civil rights movement and set the mold for...
