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Showing videos filed under: memphis
Jesse Jackson: Marching with Workers to Remember Dr. King
April 5, 2011April 4 is the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was in Memphis to support public sanitation workers, organizing with AFSCME. Today, public workers are under attack once again, but around the country workers and their allies are marching and rallying both to remember Dr. King's legacy and renew their commitment to his struggle.Jesse Jackson, The Hour of Sunlight, and Manning Marable
April 4, 2011April 4 is the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was in Memphis to support public sanitation workers, organizing with AFSCME. Today, public workers are under attack once again, but around the country workers and their allies are marching and rallying both to remember Dr. King's legacy and renew their commitment to his struggle.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: Fighting for Workers
January 17, 2011As everyone probably knows, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis in 1968 by an assassin's bullet, but it's often forgotten that he was in Memphis joining the sanitation workers' fight for fair wages and working conditions. King's support for labor, particularly low-wage public workers, was a theme of his work for most of his life, and to honor that legacy, we bring you a segment of the speech he gave to those workers the day before his death.John Nichols, Fighting for Public Workers, and Martin Luther King
January 13, 2011"Candidates and politicians who are at their best do not touch our brain, they touch our hearts. It's in our heart that our attitudes are shifted," notes John Nichols of The Nation, and that's what Barack Obama did last night, with his speech on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, Arizona last week. He also provided, Nichols notes, a striking contrast to Sarah Palin's response to the shooting, which made it all about her.The F Word: Widening Concern for Public Workers
January 13, 2011It's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day on Monday, the holiday that celebrates the Nobel Peace Prize winner's birth and life. The Rev. King wasn't assassinated, as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords almost was, at a Congress on Your Corner. Or on a civil rights march. He was assassinated in Memphis, where he was showing up to support the right of public employees to organize, and strike.
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