http://fightfor15.org/the-fight-for-15-to-hold-first-ever-nationwide-convention/

Thousands of Americans doing all kinds of work for too little pay are heading to Richmond — the ex-capital of the Confederacy — to fight for for justice. Economic justice. Immigration justice. Racial justice.

Representatives of the country’s nearly 64 million workers paid less than $15 per hour will be there — McDonald’s cashiers and airport baggage handlers, truck drivers and early education teachers, retail employees and home care workers. And so many others.

We’ll be confronting our nation’s biggest, most important issues — the crisis of today’s low wages and the effects of racist policies that have held back working people of color. In anticipation of the convention, McDonald’s workers in Richmond walked off the job on Thursday and went on strike to demand $15 an hour and union rights.

“Workers like me – home care workers and domestic workers – have never had a shot at a good life because our jobs are a legacy of slavery and were excluded from basic labor protections,” said Lauralyn Clark, a 53-year-old home care worker from Ruther Glen, VA. “It’s been over one hundred and fifty years since we abolished slavery, but we still aren’t being paid what we need to survive.” 

“Decades of attacks on working people who organized unions mean that jobs that traditionally provided a path to economic security for some families now no longer do,” said David Wildbourne, library staff at East Carolina University. “America’s legacies of racism and corporate greed have always been intertwined, and because of those forces we’re all in the same boat now. Our chance for opportunity, if it ever existed, has been destroyed. And so we are coming together in Richmond to fight for an economy that works for all of us, regardless of income or the color of our skin. Our Fight for $15 is changing America and we won’t stop until we win a living wage and a path to a union for every working family.”

Read the Washington Post coverage of the announcement here>>

From garment workers in Bangladesh to fast food workers in the U.S. South: workers all over the world are rising up today!

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Oct. 15, 2011.

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July 26, 2016 Philadelphia, PA

Presentación de la película “No más bebés” / Film Screening: “No más bebés”

ENGLISH BELOW

Sábado, 30 de julio, 9am-12pm
MATC Walker’s Point (816 W. National Ave.)

Para el último taller de nuestro programa de liderazgo Mujeres Líderes, presentaremos la película documental “No Más Bebés” sobre la esterilización forzada de latinas en Los Ángeles en los 1960s y 1970s. La película documenta la resistencia de las mujeres. Acompáñenos para la película y plática de la después.

Avance de la película: https://youtu.be/aseQlmKg25U

Más información: (414) 779-0219

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Saturday, July 30th, 9am-12pm
MATC Walker’s Point (816 W. National Ave.)

For the final session of our women’s leadership development program Mujeres Líderes, we will be showing the documentary “No Más Bebés,” about the forced sterilization of Latina women in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s. The film depicts the women’s resistence. Join us for the movie and discussion afterward.

Preview here: https://youtu.be/aseQlmKg25U

More information: (414) 779-0219